Saturday, November 03, 2007

Tough love

http://www.mediainstitute.org/banquet2007/speeches/snow_20071016.pdf

This is a superb speech. As someone who works in the meeeja, I can attest to the truth of this mans words. The press in Britain is different from that in the US- it is much broader, coarser and closer to the world of the person reading it. US newspapers are crap- especially local ones. British newspapers are still more interesting, although I'd say that is falling away somewhat as some of the same processes that tamed the US newspapers arrive on our shores. But as Mr Snow says, none of the problems are critical, and none are irreversable.

Hail to the Chief (s Ex-Press Secretary)!

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