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Folks like greedy & disgraced Richard Chase of Nyota think that the deadwood press is still king and that online publications do not count. He has clearly been too busy lubing up for his next job at King's Cross to notice that the Independent has shut its print edition and that this weekend both the Guardian and News International have announced that 100 of their staffers will be getting P45s in yet another round of cost cutting.
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Mark Howitt
I think it’s good and bad in a way…
I haven’t personally bought a newspaper (other than for free supermarket tokens) for about 12 years and don’t think I ever will again…
Online is just easier to read… and there is more new quality online content on the net each day than you can digest.
I guess it’s a bit ‘sad’ that some writers in a way will be fired. Very hard to make money JUST being a writer these days…
What I’ve personally had to do is find ways of making more than enough money in other ways. Then I can write whatever I want without having to worry about being paid for it… I’d still be open for ‘paid writing offers’… but would still only write for original websites.
Fullerbull
Tom,
What I haven’t understood from your piece is what the ‘change for the better’ is going to be. Why would the ‘deadwood press’ not just die as hard copy, but resurrect itself online and publish the same sort of dross that you are complaining about? I agree that mostly the mainline press is not worth reading, but there are/were pockets of excellent journalism nevertheless. I am thinking here of Nick Davies’ of the Guardian (which I don’t read) who took on the Murdoch empire (News of the World etc) and the establishment – and won. How does shifting the medium from offline to online improve anything – it’s newsmedia policy and ethos that really matters.