Well Rodney, what makes a journalist..... you seem to indicate you are none to certain and left the job. I tend to look more at the columnists and the likes of Bruce and van Onselen are superficial and biased. 
As for the quality of journalism, well there and many varied and good ones out there... I read the Telegraph on my Kindle daily and the content is far, far, superior to what we have here. This is not to say there are not some good ones here is SA, Grootes though is not one of them.... A pity, as I listen to him most days on 567, but as I say, he is superficial!