IT is always a little worrying when government wants to shoot the messenger for problems it directly should be influencing.
That's what is being mooted by the Treasury Select Committee as it takes aim at the press for, it claims, reporting on the current economic situation irresponsibly and only adding to the situation.
Charlie Beckett highlights the issue as a colleague of his at POLIS looked at how financial journalism has changed in the 24 news environment we now live in.
Surely we don't want to go back to the days of only 'being in the know' if you wore the right colour tie, but I do think journalism could help itself and play the contrary card.
Why not provide readers with links to reports that have been quoted in an article, links to the websites of company's mentioned, the ability to download spreadsheets of data - give people the evidence and let them come to their own conclusions.
Most of this information is publicly available, it's just well hidden, but journalists have the skills and experience to shine a light on such and so help readers.
Then if the Treasury Select Committee say that there is too much detail being made available, journalists can pass on any angry comments directly to the MPs themselves.
Another one of my web stops today was the website of Ben Goldacre, who is a journalist on The Guardian but also a doctor and burster of far from scientific science.
He took a pin to the many detox offerings out there at this time of year, including one that was featured on The Today programme this morning and 6 o'clock news tonight.
Finally there has been much talk at the start of 2009 of this being the year that many local newspapers will hit the wall, leaving journalists out of a job and many communities with no 'glue', with Roy Greenslade wondering if anything will fill the void.
In the comments to that piece my pal Rick Waghorn takes a stab at a possible way forward, and adds a little on his own website.
And if you want to get up to speed on where these changes have come from and where they could be heading, We The Media by Dan Gillmor is still the place to start, four and a bit years on since its publication.
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