journalists:active or passive?

My dialogue with others on the role of journalists continues:

“I’m glad we agree on some of the basic principles of journalism. Reporting solutions is fine- if they are reports or papers from think tanks and others, or opinion pieces clearly defined by leader writers online and in print- or in presenter-led reports. I’m completely in favour of journalism offering their audiences the facts plus possible solutions as long as these are presented objectively. Of course possible courses of action pursued can be pointed out as having results e.g. pushing for regime change or new laws.

So perhaps we don’t really disagree on this?

On the demise of journalists- perhaps the ‘traditional’ role is disappearing replaced by one that combines multi-media skills- so that videojournalists are growing in number. Certainly this is happening in the UK for local TV,online broadcast channels and terrestrial channels too. Even for Radio, the BBC Training unit reports many more radio journalists wanting to learn mobile phone filming skills- to raise the profile of their audio reports and contribute on more than one platform. how do I know all this? Well I’m revising my text book on Practising Videojournalism……