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Stephen Whittle
Monday June 5, 2006
Guardian
Journalism has become a rather precarious profession. The statistics for journalists killed, imprisoned and tortured make depressing reading. Then there is that casual contempt for the craft revealed by Cherie Blair, who signed the Hutton report for a party fundraiser, not to mention the slipping ratings for trust in the opinion polls. And all of that is before you get to the challenge to professional journalism from a combination of Google, bloggers and “citizen journalists”.

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