And yet, after excitement settled down, I couldn't help feeling somewhat dissatisfied: the report delivers tactics, but not an overall strategy for journalism, its vision is interesting, but lacking in ambition.
By 1960, Kyle had moved into tele-vision journalism, where he became a leading figure, making sense of the rapidly unfolding events in Africa and earning the admiration of viewers and his peers.
What would it mean to get Jon Stewart's vision of journalism straight, no chaser?
It's going to exist, but we're going to hide it?" That, he said, "seems contrary to the vision of journalism".
And so, as I got older, when I saw 'All the President's Men,' that was the iconic vision of journalism telling truth to power, and making sure our democracy worked.
Several critics, notably Steve Dyson (here) and the National Union of Journalists (here) and commenters to Press Gazette (here and here), have taken him to task for his vision of journalism's future.
There is a new vision of journalism – call it the auteur school – in which the business shifts from being organized by institutions to being organized around individual journalists with discrete followings.
"We have tremendous respect for Axel Springer's commitment to independent journalism and its global vision for the future," Blodget said in a statement on Tuesday, which was written up on BI as the 11th most important thing to know before the US markets opened.
That's what Citizenfour director Laura Poitras attempts in Project X, a remarkable new short made in collaboration with Henrik Moltke, which launches this Monday on video-journalism platform Field Of Vision.
