A Climate for Better Reporting
Quality journalism, in the public interest, urgently addresses the immorality expressed by powerful people and otherwise influential ones. Ensuring the powerful are accountable is important. Ensuring the influential use their influence for good in the world is also important. But how do you know who is powerful and who is not? How do you know when a seemingly powerful person is merely a puppet for the really powerful? How do you know when to judge, and report upon, the misuse of power? How do you know when to judge, and report upon, the misuse of influence? How do you attempt to hold people in positions of authority accountable not only for their own actions but also the actions of the people they are authorised to supervise? What have you been contributing to public interest journalism in the interests of a healthy planet? If you have not been making a suitable contribution, and you have possibly even been preventing other people from making those contributions, how should you be hel