The expanding connection with the world, media's ideal of professionalism and management needs, the public's increasing demand for disclosure of government information, the need for legitimacy of the ruling party – all these factors are joining the tug of war.
She goes on to say that the explosion of citizen journalism, while evidence of growing media plurality, is also endangering the professionalism of the media.
The other side to professionalism is the increased media exposure and the pressure that can create, but Knight insists extra publicity for the women's game is a good thing.
At a recent training course for Palestinian journalists, Marwan Kanafani, a spokesman for Mr. Arafat, lamented the lack of professionalism in the Palestinian news media.
Some of the aims of this project include enhancing the participants' communication skills, digital literacy, e-professionalism and co-production of services, while examining how social media can amplify vulnerabilities.
Taken to the very limits of greed, media hysteria, manager-mania, swearing, stamping, diving and post-goal snarling into camera, the professionalism has turned the sport into a different game altogether, the world's oldest profession.
But as state subsidies have dropped sharply in the last 10 years, much of the Chinese news media have found another master -- the market -- and have gained a new sense of professionalism.
The story, of a runty, crooked-legged horse that became the biggest media celebrity in Depression-weary America, is impossible not to embrace, and Mr. Ross tells it with efficiency and professionalism.
It is 11 months since Paolo Di Canio strode into the media room at Tottenham Hotspur and embarked on a 24-minute diatribe against the fragile mentality and lack of professionalism within his then Sunderland squad.
