Abstract
❛One of my favorite sounds ever is the sound of a crisp new newspaper being read over breakfast for an hour or so…The popping out of it, the folding, the scribbling on the crossword…I hope it never goes out of fashion in our digital world. It is too romantic.❜
– Singer songwriter Katy Perry, tweeting to her 108.9million followers
❛There is currently great danger that social media will splinter into far right wing and far left wing echo chambers that generate more hate and divide our society. In the relentless pursuit of clicks, much of traditional media has fueled and catered to those polarized extremes, as they believe that is what brings in the money, but, in doing so, the opportunity for dialogue is lost.❜
– Elon Musk, in an open letter to advertisers explaining his purchase of Twitter
❛The BBC is the one organisation that can be relied on not to have a political agenda. The BBC’s only agenda is to try to get to the truth of things. It doesn’t have a political slant, it doesn’t have particular views it wants to get across. It is as near as we can get to an objective truth teller. And I think, in a world where there is a cacophony of voices and a cacophony of different prejudices and opinions and distortions prevailing, it’s absolutely vital to have something where, whatever its faults, its intention is to strive to tell the objective truth.❜
– David Dimbleby, on the BBC’s centenary
❛The paper has become internally dysfunctional, with writers and editors alike all terrified of saying The Wrong Take. I saw this coming in the Corbyn era when I was repeatedly warned off writing about Labour from my perspective as a Jew. Then I was told not to write about gender from my perspective as a woman. When I asked what part of my identity was acceptable to turn into copy, it was suggested that I write about my children.❜
– Hadley Freeman, to the editor of The Guardian, reported Private Eye