The Times

As part of a university assignment, I've been buying The Times every morning for the past week or so, and today I got a welcome surprise on the front page.

Dominic Kennedy, Investigations Editor for The Times was violently ejected from a BNP meeting, left bloodied, bruised and assaulted.

This is no conjecture or libel on my part, as not only have The Times already published these details but the mass media was on hand at the time to take plenty of photos of this taking place.

Obviously, what I'm pleased about isn't the fact that a journalist was unnecessarily roughed up by a group that's too right wing for me to even make jokes about without being personally disgusted.

What I'm pleased about is journalism finally taking a stand for something, and what's more, meaning something for once.

Obviously there will be plenty of examples people will be able to give me of journalism being meaningful and relevant in the last few years.

But all we've been told since hitting university to start a journalism degree is how the industry is going down the toilet and newspapers don't mean anything any more when the internet is so instantaneous.

But here, not only have The Times reported on something brilliantly, they themselves have BECOME the story.

It's a thrilling example of what Hunter S. Thompson called gonzo journalism - the journalist truly becoming the story.

What's more, it's great to see journalists representing enough of a threat to a political party that they saw fit to one out of their meeting with violent force.

The BNP have been gaining momentum recently and hopefully this story will expose them for what they truly are.

Watch this space.