Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 25 March 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Context Phase
Mr. Harry Browne:
I have already outlined what I believe were the effects. Some journalists continued to do well throughout the period in question and to some extent have done well since. The fact that journalism is characterised by certain structural changes that in ways resemble other industries should in some ways be seen as an opportunity for journalists. I say that not as a booster. Journalists who know the world of casualised labour, the world of falling wages and the world of precariousness may be in a better position to write about those realms than are journalists who are comfortable professionals-----