After IT, media?

If there is one profession where the generation gap is starkly evident, it is journalism. Most of the media veterans are vocal in insisting that the profession has suffered an ethical and qualitative nosedive. In particular, they point to the growing commercialisation of the media to argue that the dissemination of information today resembles the marketing of soap and toothpaste. Writing in the Mumbai paper Free Press Journal renowned coloumnist and journalist Swapan Dasgupta argues why newspaper owners need to increase their Budgets for newsgathering.