The Swiss best-selling author Rolf Dobelli (“The Art of Clear Thinking”) on the following question of the Handelsblatt: “You fortunately do not want to abolish journalism, but to focus: on investigative and ‘explanatory journalism’. Are we part of the solution or the problem?”
“It depends entirely on what you want to offer your readers. The more profound the Handelsblatt is, the more optimistic I am. In fact, I believe that the two outlined fields are the future of journalism: revelations about grievances on the one hand, analyses and explanations on the other. By the way: The more dependent journalists are on advertising money, the more likely they are to become drug dealers of the sweet poison ‘News’. Those who write for subscribers, on the other hand, can and must deliver consistently high quality.”
– Rolf Dobelli, Swiss entrepreneur and best-selling author, in “The shorter, the worse”, Handelsblatt, 30., 31. August/1. September 2019