…is CAG, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, as per this incisive essay by Vinod K. Jose on the state of India’s journalism. Mr. Jose writes:
“With television leading the way, style has definitively vanquished substance—and journalism has acquired the trappings of a glamourous profession, one that trades in images, sensationalism and sound bytes instead of analysis or investigation. Newspapers and magazines now compete to be as shallow and superficial as their TV counterparts, while young journalists angle for jobs in front of the camera. Journalism schools devote more and more time to training students on the technical business of television production at the cost of foundational courses in political science and history. Television’s emergence as the dominant news medium has transformed print media as well: reporters spent less time reporting each story, while the stories themselves get shorter and shorter. All one needs today to be a ‘success’ in print journalism is the basic capacity to write a sentence in English and a handful of contacts and official sources.
As a result, the best investigative journalist in the country today is the CAG—the Comptroller and Auditor General of India.”
The entire essay is here.
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