Comments on: The London Evening Standard says “sorry”

By: Ashley L.

Ashley L. — Fri, 15 May 2009 09:09:57 +0000

I think that this new change in mangement well increase positive thinking to the usual doom and gloom of the paper.

By: Yankee

Yankee — Tue, 12 May 2009 01:45:25 +0000

To Sue:I am not a writer by profession any longer. I edited a small-town newspaper in my distant past.To Cranky Media Guy:It would be lovely to find some semblance of a point in your post with which to skewer you. But I cannot.This I regret, for it would have been immense fun. Regretfully, your post is so banal that I am now bored.Having been raised in other places, I don’t wear a ten-gallon hat. As a matter of fact, hayseed, there isn’t anyone within 100 miles of me wearing one. Ignorant stereotypes die hard.I actually drive an automobile. I can scarcely believe it myself. And to think it was only yesterday that I cleaned out the bunkhouse and got out of the cattle business. My, how the times do change.Most of my neighbors are degreed professionals working for NASA. I develop enterprise business applications. For them.Again…do you have a point? Mmmhmm…I thought not.

By: Jon Tango

Jon Tango — Tue, 12 May 2009 00:51:50 +0000

The Evening Standard better be sorry. http://www.hagenmus.com/medialyser/2009/ 05/evening-standard-now-with-orange/ … Even the new design can’t save it.

By: Dimitri

Dimitri — Mon, 11 May 2009 13:24:21 +0000

So an ex-KGB agent buys a British newspaper and proceeds to make it apologize for being “out of touch?” When is Britain going to realize that it has been completely owned by the Left? It’s pathetic.

By: KPRO

KPRO — Mon, 11 May 2009 13:02:39 +0000

I have come to loath reading the British newspapers. They have become just classless gossip, just terrible in format and content. They are more interested in spreading stupid gossip than informing the public about what’s going on in the world. I hope they all go under, as they have started to do in the United States. You are all failing the public trust and will reap the seeds you have sewn very soon.

By: Larry

Larry — Mon, 11 May 2009 12:37:14 +0000

In order to stay afloat in this economy you have to fit the news to what the majority deems palatable. Newspapers have to make money. Journalism today must appeal to emotions, not necessarily logic. People have become extremely sensitive and deeply distressed to thoughts or events that may challenge their comfort zone.

By: jay dee

jay dee — Mon, 11 May 2009 12:17:03 +0000

Oh there goes another illusion I had.I thought Brits were more informed thanAmericans and somewhat less ideologicallybiased.Thanks for the comments. It\’s always arelief to dispel illusions.You Brits are just as biased, just as ideologicaland just as wrong headed as we Americans are.Heaven help us all. Oh and just fyi our media is pretty much owned by an Aussie right wing oligarch. Our brains are thoroughlywashed by our media too. As for the Texan…try getting anything other than Rush Limbaugh on Texas radio.Clear Channel owns their air down there.Where is George Orwell when we need him.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 11 May 2009 12:02:55 +0000

Amused by the second comment, “let the English discuss this”. Let’s make a deal, then – you guys let the Americans discuss our politics, and we’ll let you discuss yours.And do try to ask in a civil manner, without resorting to your reflexive “oh my god it’s that right wing crowd blah blah blah”.

By: KM

KM — Mon, 11 May 2009 11:59:32 +0000

This type of activity is what is needed to finally destroy the left. The complacency of the average citizen will continue until socialism has boxed them into the corner completely. The USA has now gone over the cliff to socialism, with the election of Obama and his minions. Britain is already at the bottom of that cliff, but seems unsatisfied until the boulders from atop the cliff are piled down to bury them completely. Once the left gets their way completely, the boxed in average citizens will push back to center and return society to what it should be.

By: recoveringjournalist

recoveringjournalist — Mon, 11 May 2009 11:54:53 +0000

Decades ago when I was a young journalist, I was taught that the media’s responsibility was to open a window to the world to the readers. Our edicts were accuracy, fairness, and relevancy. It was not our job to mirror the biases or perpetuate the misconceptions of our readers.Sadly, the Standard has decided to leave journalism behind and simply embrace populism. The only thing left to believe in newspapers are the advertisements.