Rebuilding media

As a journalist for more than a decade, I have been on dangerous assignments. I have fearlessly but carefully tackled different societal issues. Yet I never had any pain of being insulted or degraded to the point of being ashamed of my profession— until lately, when I was lambasted for the sins of my erring colleagues. Hearing those bad adjectives attached to the media makes me want to be swallowed by the earth.

But truth really hurts. Most of the things they say about media men—bias, corrupt, troublemaker, attention-seeker—are not far from reality. But there remain some few good men. I am just dismayed that I have been adjudged guilty by association.