This guy may be a conservative. He may be right in his long, long, long, long, (Who has time to read it? Who Cares) long diatribe here.
But at the end of the day - print journalism is dead and nobody trusts or respects journalists anyway.
Get over it.
Another highly educated flake.
We’ve got too many of them. Supply exceeds demand. Guess what happens next.
The Telegraph has turned into The Guardian Lite.
As the man said, the Telegraph is a conservative leaning publication. Conservatives support Israel.
It would be like asking the Washington Post to do articles critical of Global Warming, only not as bad as the Post claims to be non-partial.
Oh Peter,Peter,Peter, your too-long opinion is just not that important to most of us.
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Well, bye.
Now, THAT is an opus. :=)
“When I pushed the point, an executive took me aside and said that ‘there is a bit of an issue’ with HSBC.”
Remember this bit next time you read an article about vaccinations, global warming, and evolution. Anyone who gets advertising money and research funding is going to tow the line.
Like many other sites i try to avoid the Telegraph due to their no comment section policy.
I have no use for those that strictly want to control the narrative.
“the owners had no right to destroy it”
Wrong.
Owners can do anything they want.
It might be STUPID to want to destroy a profitable paper.
But never confuse the wisdom of an action with the right to take the action.
I remember visiting the Telegraph page daily and commenting on their opinion columns. It has gone down hill pretty far apparently, all of the print media has.
There was a front page story about deer-hunting. It was actually about deer-stalking, a completely different activity.
The horror!
"... no newspaper in history has ever given an unfavourable gloss on its owner’s accounts."
and yet express shock that his newspaper limited unfavorable coverage of their biggest advertiser.
There is, as well, an ideological corruption in which not always, and not much, money changes hands (the currency there is power and celebrity), which is in my view even more pernicious. That appears to be the problem with U.S. journalism at the moment, and the issue here is that the pendulum has swung so far in that direction that it might never come back. That does not augur well for honest journalists any more than current cultural trends do to a virgin in a brothel. Compromise becomes a choice between sell out and walk out. I wish the author the best in his next post.
Excellent essay by Mr. Osborne. Excellent comments here.
“Newspapers have what amounts in the end to a constitutional duty to tell their readers the truth.” The human mind desires true and accurate information. Thus, Drudge and Free Republic will always have customers.
Analogy: just as it is unethical to give a glass of paint thinner to a thirsty customer and evil to do so deliberately, it is unethical for LA Times, Wash. Post, UK Mail, UK Telegraph, etc. to give empty stories to concerned citizens and evil to do so to avoid complaints from advertisers.
The destroyers are in charge. It’s going to take a lot of work to re-build.