It is the public trust which we journalists have ignored in the interest of entertaining an audience. We are afraid to bore them. So we make the stories fun. Journalism is public service. Let me repeat that.
Journalism is public service.
Always has been, always will be. We have a responsibility, and we had let the public down in great degree, in the process creating a lazy electorate. It's our fault. It's absolutely our fault. Some of it is boring.