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Broadcast journalism, particularly in those territories which permit editorialised broadcast journalism.
Every once in a while someone will point out that the most popular radio journalist in the Era was Walter Winchell, and claim that shows things haven't changed at all. But aside from the fact that for all his show-biz tricks, Winchell was capable of actual legitimate journalism when he put his mind to it -- he was the first American newsman to attack Hitler in the 1930s, and one of the first to challenge the tobacco industry in the 1950s -- they miss the point that there was only *one* Winchell, in a world otherwise populated by Shirers, Kaltenborns, Jordans,Searchingers, Severeids, Swings, Collingswoods, Hollenbecks, and Murrows. The situation today is precisely the opposite -- the clowns have taken over the circus, to the point where people consider actual comedians more legitimate sources of news than so-called reporters.