Murdochisation
Sky News’ Kay Burley to the former partner of serial killer Steve Wright:
Do you think if you’d had a better sex life, he wouldn’t have done this?
Update: Mitch Benn:
Maybe soon we will be able to do our own Daily Show, if this is the sort of journalism we’re starting to embrace on British TV news. But that won’t be any sort of compensation.
Posted on February 28th, 2008 at 4:10pm under Evil of banality
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There is a lot less of this in Spain, where El País is the biggest-selling daily paper and the main television news still tries to operate the standards that the BBC might have done a generation ago.
This isn’t because of any great difference between Spanish and English people or culture, and the main reason is quite likely the coincidental factor that Rupert Murdoch is from an English-speaking country. But it’s also that many people in senior positions in Spanish journalism and broadcasting still understand that serious and ethical journalism is really important and that it’s not just a race to keep up the sales figures. Why do they think this? Because most of them grew up under Franco and saw the process of protest, liberalisation and democratisation that followed.