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From retail to manufacturing and from trade to investment, the economic crisis has taken its toll in Britain. Now, the impact has expanded to the media industry across the country, resulting in cutbacks and redundancies.
However, rather than accepting the forced redundancies, journalists and their unions have come together to fight against the job cuts, which they say are “unjustifiable”.
The industry has failed to adapt quickly enough to advances in modern technology, especially since the advent of the Internet. And media companies’ appetite for excessive profits, building up huge debts and reckless management are regarded as the biggest threats to British journalism.
For the full story, by Dongying Wang, published by Xinhua News Agency in January 2009, please click here. Also please return to the blog to post your comment.
1 comment:
I agree. My friends at DW has said the same thing.
However, it is not just a problem with job vacancies and with technology. It is also a problem of culture. Consumer-journalism thrive today, when it did not before. Journalists are bought out by the rich and powerful, and conform to society so much that they only express the views that people want to hear. Journalists who do not conform are either killed or made redundant.
Press freedom is not what it used to be. Nevertheless, we still want the truth, and many of us still want to see God in the news.
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