About a week ago there was an interesting little blog feud/debate between Media Guardian critic/all round journalismystro Roy Greenslade and The Telegraph honcho Justin Williams over goings on at the Telegraph.
You might be wondering I've decided to bring this up now. The reason is not so much about the feud, although that was good, but because of the feedback left on Williams blog since. He's had his face metaphorically rubbed over a dirtdee washing-filled floor, by almost all the posters. Can it really be that bad at the rebranded-Torygraph?
I'd like to think not, simply because the editor, Will Lewis, is City Uni journalism alumni and if he's tarred then the rest of us (probably) are too. Although, as I'm unlikely to ever make a huge difference to the mainstream British press, maybe I shouldn't care.
Anyways, back to the story. Greenslade, who lectures a bunch of us trainee journalists every term-time Monday afternoon at City University, is concerned the Telegraph is becoming an evil enterprise which lays off staff, systematically breaks journalists' morale and is trying to become the new Daily Mail - "unashamedly popularist," says the Green man.
He left a post after the said blog in which he braced himself for the Williams shizen to really hit the fan, but maybe secretly goading the Telegraph deputy ed to really let loose. Which he did.
Cue mud-slinging, anger, vitriol etc. and an interesting debate on the future of print journalism and how journalists should do their jobs in the UK.
You might be wondering I've decided to bring this up now. The reason is not so much about the feud, although that was good, but because of the feedback left on Williams blog since. He's had his face metaphorically rubbed over a dirtdee washing-filled floor, by almost all the posters. Can it really be that bad at the rebranded-Torygraph?
I'd like to think not, simply because the editor, Will Lewis, is City Uni journalism alumni and if he's tarred then the rest of us (probably) are too. Although, as I'm unlikely to ever make a huge difference to the mainstream British press, maybe I shouldn't care.
Anyways, back to the story. Greenslade, who lectures a bunch of us trainee journalists every term-time Monday afternoon at City University, is concerned the Telegraph is becoming an evil enterprise which lays off staff, systematically breaks journalists' morale and is trying to become the new Daily Mail - "unashamedly popularist," says the Green man.
He left a post after the said blog in which he braced himself for the Williams shizen to really hit the fan, but maybe secretly goading the Telegraph deputy ed to really let loose. Which he did.
Cue mud-slinging, anger, vitriol etc. and an interesting debate on the future of print journalism and how journalists should do their jobs in the UK.
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