Can Journalists Ever Be Heroes?

I've wanted to be a journalist and a crime novelist since I was 12-years-old, so over the years I've read a good number of novels and saw a good number of films about journalists.

Evelyn Waugh's satiric novel Scoop is a particular favorite. I've read the novel several times.

John Walsh wrote an interesting piece for the British newspaper The Independent that argues journalist "hacks" make for great literary heroes.

You can read the piece via the below link:

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/can-journalists-ever-be-heroes-2262372.html#