It's being reported on TV and in the papers that The Daily Telegraph is to be put up for sale after Lloyds Banking Group took control of the parent firm over unpaid loans and placed it in the hands of receivers.
It was interesting to listen to former Telegraph journalist Sonia Purnell on BBC2 Newsnight yesterday, 8th June. She worked for it in the 90s and said she sometimes barely recognises the paper she knew then. There was a “firm and solid wall” between comment and news but now they are merging into each other and the comment has become more extreme. 'It’s not the trustworthy organ it once used to be’ she said, and wondered if any potential new owner of the newspaper would seek to change its ‘obsession with woke blobs.’
The big question is, who's going to buy it (and the Sunday Telegraph)? The lack of distinction between news and comment is of course a major characteristic of the tabloids. It would be good to have another “serious” paper, even one with a right-of-centre editorial, rather than one which resembles the Sun and Daily Mail but with a few more long words!
It was interesting to listen to former Telegraph journalist Sonia Purnell on BBC2 Newsnight yesterday, 8th June. She worked for it in the 90s and said she sometimes barely recognises the paper she knew then. There was a “firm and solid wall” between comment and news but now they are merging into each other and the comment has become more extreme. 'It’s not the trustworthy organ it once used to be’ she said, and wondered if any potential new owner of the newspaper would seek to change its ‘obsession with woke blobs.’
The big question is, who's going to buy it (and the Sunday Telegraph)? The lack of distinction between news and comment is of course a major characteristic of the tabloids. It would be good to have another “serious” paper, even one with a right-of-centre editorial, rather than one which resembles the Sun and Daily Mail but with a few more long words!
