Dave Angel wrote:
whose idea of journalism is "why use two syllables when one will do"
Actually, that would be the Economist's idea of journalism too as they make it clear to all their journalists that, as much as possible, simple English should be used.
I'm going to stop now, this is too far removed from rugby and you seem to be getting upset Dave. I'm just playing around and don't want to upset anyone so will draw to a halt here.
No, I assure you i'm not getting upset. It just amuses me that anyone can actually consider the tabloids as "journalism". Gossip spreaders yes; journalists, no.
And to be honest, my feelings on the Economist magazine are really best left unsaid! (Even my Economics tutors at Uni refused to acknowledge its existence as anything more than loo paper! )
Why any self repecting rugby fan would purchase any tabloid to read reaction for any major rugby game is beyond me. The only reason I would ever read them is for light amusement at the small (and blatantly invented) stories within. I see them less as newspapers and more as low-intelligence daily satire. And the less said about The Sun the better, but don't get me started on that as I could go on all day.
In terms of The Sun it is one of the sharpest and most successful papers in publishing history. It has broken ground in a number of areas and changed government policy. Even without mentioning it's headline for the 1992 general election, it has been the most important paper to court for any politician in the past two decades.
In Trevor Kavanagh the Sun has possibly the best Political Editor for a generation.
These are journalisitic facts. If you ask anyone in press or parliamentary circles of the one journalist who can make or destroy policy, it is Trevor Kavanagh.
Also, just wanted to add that Kavanagh scooped the conclusions of the Hutton report before it was published, so if you refused to read the Sun, you would not have been the first with the news. Tut tut tut
You stick with the Sun/NOTW, and i'll stick with proper newspapers.
That way we can both be happy! :roll:
I don't read the Sun Dave, I just like defending it and the other tabloids.
Personally, I read more papers than most and have access to a lot of news feeds and specialist briefings as part of one of my jobs so I'm not really that fussed about which paper I read.
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