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Vargas Llosa: danger of 'entertainment journalism'

Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa believes that the greatest challenge to journalism is its "degradation" into entertainment. In a video address to the 2007 World Editors Forum in Cape Town, Llosa said a journalism of banality and frivolity was therefore in danger of abdicating its most important function: conveying an objective vision of what is going on in the world. (Via Editors' weblog)

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