This week in our first Journalism in Society lecture, we looked at what a journalist does.
No text can come up with a definitive definition as journalists cover so many varied roles, however in his book 'The Universal Journalist', David Randall sums it up best for me when he discusses the attributes of good journalists, saying the idea is "...above all things, to question..." He then lists the different ways journalists do this, including my favourite: "Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable."
One of my favourite journalists, John Pilger, specialises in comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable and I was pleased to see
