Sir, – The last sentence in Kate Shanahan's article of June 30th ("Journalism must regain its role in bringing power to account", June 30th), published as part of your "Future of Journalism" series, sums up the problem of journalism losing a sense of its own importance.
Her message is that journalism needs to bring those in power to account and should not give them comfort.
If the media had practiced during the boom what Kate Shanahan is now preaching – “the core values of truth, accuracy and fairness” – the reckless decisions of the powerful would have been challenged then and we would not have had the subsequent collapse in our economy and the consequent austerity. – Yours, etc,
ANTHONY LEAVY,
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