text: Globe & Mail, CBC and other print, online and television journalists usually start in the trenches reporting on local accidents, weather, shootings, some feel-good stories, etc. Through diligence, hard work and, sometimes, mere longevity they rise up through the hierarchy and become the lead reporters, most promoted columnists, and best-paid news anchors, aided and abetted by their respective editors and producers who are at the top of the hierarchical pyramid by virtue of being appointed by the corporate owners of the media outlet.
  
  Finally, they all end up as part of the elite they are supposed to be criticising, not only interviewing them, but also dining with them, going to glitzy parties with them and probably getting drunk with them once in a while. Then their so-called journalistic integrity and independence is ground away until barely a veneer of the G&M's Junius remains.