Freesheets do have some value
November 13, 2008, 10:54 pm
Filed under: Journalism | Tags: Evening Standard, freesheets, Journalism, London Lite, Metro, newspapers, Roy Greenslade, TheLondonPaper
Filed under: Journalism | Tags: Evening Standard, freesheets, Journalism, London Lite, Metro, newspapers, Roy Greenslade, TheLondonPaper
Freesheets have taken off in a big way. I don’t think there can be any doubt about that, everyone I speak to comments on something they read in thelondonpaper or that interview in the Metro.
To my mind this can only be a good thing. No, they do not provide quality reporting, and I can’t say I enjoy reading them, but they get people reading the news and talking about it. Surely that is the role of newspapers?
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“Is” journalism
I’ve just been given a lecture by Roy Greenslade of the Guardian, entitled “What is journalism for?” In the lecture he seemed to take a rather cynical approach to the press of today and what he called “is” journalism, rather than “ought” journalism; what journalism has become rather than what journalists strive to make it.
