The days when journalism was limited to obtaining press briefings and writing first hand account of happenings in the surrounding world are definitely over.(1)____ Also over is the simplistic interview journalism you published question answer from interviews with dignity.(2)____(3)____ Your well-researched articles, picking facts and figures from scores of reports, publications, papers etc.is also a done thing now. If you are privy to information that others do not have your chances of becoming a successful journalist are poor.(4)____
There was a time that journalists and media did not indulge in expressing opinions connected with the news stories.(5)____ They would simply put the facts before the people and let people to arrive at their own conclusions.(6)____ This ts true no more. Now apart from bringing breaking news, the media openly engage a itself in expressing views and opinions neither for or against it.(7)____ In recent tunes they not only exposed various scandals but also made the Public feel strongly about it.(8)____Even public opinion building by the media was acceptable but now it has crossed over to yet other domain.in finding out to what extent a given person was guilty of misconduct and the kind of punishment he/she deserved. So before any law enforcing agency or court of law comes to some decision m a given case, the media is ready with its conclusions.(9)____ This role of media is pestering many including the government and the other day the prime minister had to say that, media was now functioning all of one as accuser,
prosecutor and judge.(10)____