The Victorian journalist Charles Peabody began his 1882 history of British journalism by praising it for making bribery and corruption impossible. To his generation, newspapers were instruments of progress, servants of the public good. Such pride is sneered at now, but it has additional relevance in the new era. Britain's popular news websites belong to trusted papers and broadcasters; users understand they are an extension of printed parents. Journalists owe it to their profession to promote the underlying economic truth that without the print, the web could not support quality reporting.
According to Tim Luckhurst writing in yesterdays Sindy who says that despite declining sales,there is much evidence that
market for serious journalism remains strong
And he continues
if British journalism is not to be undermined by those who should care about it most, something more than a bleak dichotomy between printed pages and websites is required.
Again the argument though is that the printed word will suffice over the new media because at the moment,the technology has not yet provided the web with an easy outlet.It is the old story of the man on the train-who prefers to dugest his news from a printed sheet
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