Monday, February 23, 2004

ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO PRINT

Stephen Glover, a force behind the founding of the Independent, is now behind a new high brow newspaper - a tabloid with broadsheet content (er, the new trend). Here him yap on this morning's Today Programme (.ram file).

Glover reckons there are plenty of readers out there who have ditched reading the dailies because of the frivolous coverage of celebreties and reality TV progammes. Could it be that many have ditched buying a newspaper because there is now so much news content on-line? Viz: BBC News, the Guardian/Observer (click for relevant article) and any number of mostly free specialist sites?

At a time when the market is already saturated with news and advertising is going through a slump, Glover et al appear a bit optimistic. And, of course, Murdoch would kill it with a price war: just like he did with the Indy.

:: Posted by pete @ 15:52