"You've seen how we regurgitated and re-cycled the American-owned war in Iraq in the name of ratings; how we've sided with Arab and Jew alike to protect our viewer numbers outside and inside the U.S. How we sensationalised the plight of defenceless sex victims in Eastern Europe and India and invaded the privacy of  Africans dying of AIDS, in order to keep the revenues flowing and the focus away from the inequalities, poverty and racism in America.

"You've seen that it took CNN -  a world famous news agency - and their senior correspondent NINE YEARS to get a visa to visit North Korea to film a boring public relations concert for stranded diplomats. Come with us and help finance Time Inc's expansion and keep a team of totally bankrupt, cliched former journalists in work.

"We have demonstrated the callous indifference journalists are capable of while enriching the Ted Turners of this world; we have shown the complete disregard we have for the dying, the dead and the oppressed. Come with me and see just how well off you really are, far from the heartbreaking squalor and depravities that newscast nations must endure.

"Come with me as I plunge you deeper into the miseries of the world in order that you might consider me a truly pioneering journalist, completely consumed by petty ambition. Come with me as I try desperately to convince you that the world is a very bad place and that only I know the facts as they should be presented, and that YOU better be very afraid and thankful that you don't have to stay in 5-star hotels tracking the story down - and getting your frock dirty.

"Come with me as we ignore the real underlying major stories that will emerge to devastate the world....Financial crisis? What financial crisis? 

Come with me...Darfur anyone?