Nick Davies - Why Media Drag Down Societies

 "Just like gay people, we need journalist pride to save our business, Nick Davies told a Belgian crowd on Saturday 4 October 2009 at a the writers conference Het Andere Boek in Antwerp. The former British journalist of the year wrote Flat Earth News a best-seller on falsehood, distortion and propaganda in the global media.

He claims that commercialism at the heart of the mass media creates trivial news consumers while killing professional journalism. The Guardian journalist named De Morgen as a Belgian example of a similar evolution to Great Britain. Is he right or just nostalgic about the good old days as critics like to point out?