Mr. Harry Browne:

I am glad to bring it back to these matters. I apologise for drifting into Bono and other issues. My overall assessment is made in the opening statement. I reiterate that we should distinguish between the interests of media institutions and those interests, including commercial interests, that we have discussed, as compared with the interests of journalism. It is possible, although slightly romantic, to make a distinction as to what we do as journalists. I have done my best journalism in the 13 years since I stopped working full-time within a media institution.

I think we can say that it is possible to do journalism despite the larger interests of those organisations and that we, as journalists, do our best journalism when we are not worried about those interests and when the institutions make space for us to do that work.