FREDDIE STAR ATE MY HAMSTER
Imagine if all of the world’s newspaper hacks abandoned their desks at the editorial office and just wrote blogs instead.
With the demise of the much loved The London Paper this month, and a rumoured closure for The Observer doing the rounds, this vision of the newspaper apocalypse is very much on our minds.
One question that plagued us was ‘would there be a drop in quality of the reporting of news without the hierarchal quality filters at papers’ as some protagonists predict? Did papers, with their ruthless and eagle-eyed editors really create top notch journalism, immune to the cheap wordplay and some of the ridiculous news you find on the web?
Here are some highlights from UK papers that we love, and that tell a different tale….
