if mass-circulation newspapers, which also devote considerable space to reporting and analysis of public affairs, don’t have the freedom to write about scandal, I doubt whether they will retain their mass circulations, with the obvious worrying implications for the democratic process.”
Never thought that I would agree with Paul Dacre but this quote from John Lloyd's excellent article on Gossip in the FT is maybe where we have got to when it comes to news and democracy.
Sell papers on trivia and hope that people read the important bits?
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