Probably true (for me). But analysis about criticism of journalists should also include an analysis of power.

Journalists, good or bad, have power. How they use that power is not exempts from the biases and failures within the wider community that it is a part. https://twitter.com/saffronhowden/status/1312515860024627200

It would be an extraordinary achievement for journalists to be the only group of people with power and who overwhelmingly exercise that in a equitable way than the rest of society.

For example the way some media organisation in American have done review of their coverage and published editorial about how they fails and their institutional biases is an example of where some deeper work needs to occur here.

We witnessed a whole section of the media industry here engage in behaviour (journalists and opinions writers) that got a young woman to leave this country and I don’t remember the media coming together to defend her as they defend one of their own.

After the African gang moral panic, and even after the death of Liep Goy (killed by a you boy who bought into the idea that Sudanese were turning his town into the Bronx) there was, and remain, an real lack of reflection about the role of the industry to cause so much harm.

The narrative we are seeing here, and which parallels others institutions, is a few bad apples are the problem. I am not entirely convinced.

Absolutely, the media is fundamental to democracy, when it hold power to truth. But it power. It can be abuse.

*Hold truth to power*