The delicious irony has been to watch a Westminster-obsessed class of journalists complain about the very smears they've been publishing and perpetuating for years.
I think Kuittinen would approve, even if his piece is more about wishing for a class of journalists more able and willing to burrow down into the nitty-gritty of apps analytics and business models.
The salon was no longer the preferred form of downtime for State Department officials, intelligence analysts, and a certain class of journalist.
I had the privilege of having him lecture to one of my classes of working journalists at El Colegio de Mexico some years ago.
Commenting on her appointment, Katharine Viner said: "Being editor-in-chief of the Guardian and Observer is an enormous privilege and responsibility, leading a first class team of journalists revered around the world for outstanding reporting, independent thinking, incisive analysis and digital innovation.
The corrupt politicians or the hungry-for-smear class of Westminster journalists?
Other publications have had their hands forced by an increasingly emboldened class of young journalists who have presumably taken their employers' liberal rhetoric to heart.
There's a valid argument that citizens can cover more ground with greater freedom than reporters beholden to corporate ownership, but shield laws will not create an exclusive class of preferred journalists.
"Migrants from impoverished hinterlands, living without security, public health, and, often, clean water in the shantytowns of São Paulo, Lagos, Karachi, Dhaka, and Jakarta, have as much in common with each other as "People Like Us"–the global class of businessmen, journalists, academics, and anti-terrorism experts do among themselves".
The bulk of panellists are drawn from the same upper-middle-class, upper-middle-aged pot of journalists, lawyers and politicians, and are often profoundly ignorant on topics outside of that narrow culture.
