Wake-up call for media

THE CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION INTO THE 21cbh.com website's "particularly big" blackmailing scheme sounds especially unsettling because it involves one of the most influential business media outlets in the country; one that has established itself as an authoritative source of industry information.

Besides probably landing a number of website executives and reporters in prison, the scandal will inevitably raise credibility issues regarding the media conglomerate 21st Century Press Group, of which 21cbh.com is only its new-media arm.

However, the shame should not be taken as just 21cbh.com's and its parent company's. It should be a wake-up call for all domestic media institutions to look themselves in the mirror.