http://www.theharbinger.co.za/wordpress/2007/12/04/a-prediction-all-predictions-will-be-wrong-including-this-one/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:42:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://www.theharbinger.co.za/wordpress/2007/12/04/a-prediction-all-predictions-will-be-wrong-including-this-one/#comment-93408 ahmed Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:09:19 +0000 http://www.theharbinger.co.za/wordpress/2007/12/04/a-prediction-all-predictions-will-be-wrong-including-this-one/#comment-93408 I think this column is spot-on when contextualising the state of journalism in South Africa. Accurate predictions in journalism (supposing they are probable) are likely to only emerge once a journalistic tradition of what you call the 'hard legwork' is established firmly within the profession. Our current tradition as journalists - bearing in mind our relative immaturity in a 'free-press' milieu - suggests a level of prediction for 'surface issues', those being the headlines rather than the 'meat' that binds the story onto that bone. In time, I predict that enterprising and hard-legging journos will emerge owing to a greater 'professionalisation' of the increasingly theory-influenced practice. I think this column is spot-on when contextualising the state of journalism in South Africa. Accurate predictions in journalism (supposing they are probable) are likely to only emerge once a journalistic tradition of what you call the ‘hard legwork’ is established firmly within the profession. Our current tradition as journalists - bearing in mind our relative immaturity in a ‘free-press’ milieu - suggests a level of prediction for ’surface issues’, those being the headlines rather than the ‘meat’ that binds the story onto that bone. In time, I predict that enterprising and hard-legging journos will emerge owing to a greater ‘professionalisation’ of the increasingly theory-influenced practice.

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