Mr. Harry Browne:

If who will not like it is the person who pays one's salary then one does have to be concerned and if one's salary is not, in fact, a salary at all but a daily shift rate that one hopes one will get again next week if one is invited back then, yes, one does have to be very concerned about who is going to like it. Essentially, the changing structure of journalistic employment means that it is more dangerous and difficult to try to do those sorts of things. The fact is that the journalists that I interviewed, many of whom were saying those sorts of things for that research in 2006, were for the most part staff journalists in national newspapers, so they would not have had quite the same pressures that I have just referred to but, nonetheless, would have felt the heavy hand of how many stories they have to file on a given day. One needs to file three times a day now with the online thing.

There is a sense that one can stand up for oneself. Hopefully, that is part of the ethics that journalists are supposed to carry into the field. However, the reality is, as in any institution, it is a risky proposition.