Rexn - 5/6/2013 20:14
The guy from the Telegraph, was it Luke Edwards? He was banned. A Mail journo was banned a couple of seasons ago. Having met a few journos when I did more articles than now, some of them said they wished they had the ability to write the sort of things that I did.
The classic example is Liverpool boycotting the Sun. ultimately journos get paid according to being read, whether that is selling papers or hits on their web pages which are paid for by advertisers.
What happened to the art of journalism? Somebody actually writing a piece for it's merits, and selling papers as a result of that skill?
It seems everything is dummed down and written to be controversial, purely to create publicity and make the highest possible number of sales for the men in suits and shareholders.
I'd buy the Chronicle if they wrote some thought provoking, decent stuff, but I haven't bought it for years.
The art of anything skill based seems to be vanishing more and more by the day.