Here's hoping

There's an interesting piece on The Guardian's website about the changing face of sports journalism on the internet. It's all worth reading but the bit I want to highlight refers to the thing I was saying previously about the agenda of journalists and the way they pretend not to have a choice but to follow this agenda, I'll make bold the bits of especial interest:

More than that though, I hope that a new culture will be fostered among the sports writers and journalists themselves, born of the fact that the internet has rendered obsolete many of the conceits that built this current culture. The fundamental deception of denying the subjectivity of the writer, for example, the refusal to acknowledge that reportage is inevitably filtered and shaped by an "I" that traditionally must be unseen and unmentioned. This means writers can escape the pack mentality that dictates standard practice; tinkering with the truth will be harder now journalists, challenged by bloggers and readers, no longer have a monopoly on information; and the divvying up of quotes to be kept back as filler later that week will be less acceptable when there is a greater priority placed on instantaneous news-breaking.

Here's hoping...