What is Post- Murdoch future of the media?

For a while now, I have been more irritated by the way the media has been tirelessly covering the Phone Hacking Scandal than by the crimes they are actually reporting on. It's as if every other journalist has felt the need to jump on this self-righteous band wagon as if to prove their own wide-eyed innocence. When, ironically enough,the whole industry was probably vaguely aware of what was going on in the first place.


 Don't get me wrong, of course every story News International hacked open was so completely and utterly sick, but why did this even need to happen? Milly Dowler,9/11 victims, Hugh Grant - Why? Who cares about medical records and affairs? Sadly,the answer is we do. Our nation's inexhaustible hunger for scandal, celebrity sex and drug deals has fueled Murdoch's empire for years and has contributed to what the morally bankrupt system News International is today- or rather was.


But, for me, the big question that still remains is why phone hacking has transpired in to such a huge scandal anyway - when everyone has known for a long time that this is where tabloid newspapers find their stories. Perhaps News International was just a ticking time bomb sticking to a system which sells but eventually had to end when the world decided to open their eyes.Yes, journalism is about exposing the truth, but not truth that tears families apart, interferes with police investigations or gives parents hope that their little girl is still alive. Surely it is time for responsible journalism. 


After all this I still feel left thinking: do I really want to enter this world, do I want to become a writer, a journalist, a vulture? This scandal may have permanently scarred the reputation of British journalism forever, but after really thinking about it, this has actually made me more determined to become a writer, to become a part of the new media, post Murdoch.