Simon Jenkins, a former Times editor, told The Lords Communications Committee that blogs were like ‘bar room chats’ and couldn’t be taken as seriously as newspaper columns, reports journalism.co.uk.
A blogger himself, he said he found the flexibility of writing a blog stimulating but wouldn’t want blogs to replace ‘old-fashioned’ newspaper columns.
As far as I’m aware, no one is currently considering doing so.
Andrew Neil, meanwhile, raises an interesting view: “The rise of blogging and opinion outside of the mainstream has caused newspapers a problem, because quite often these blogs are more interesting than the editorials in the newspapers.”
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Blogs ‘shouldn’t replace newspaper columns’
Simon Jenkins, a former Times editor, told The Lords Communications Committee that blogs were like ‘bar room chats’ and couldn’t be taken as seriously as newspaper columns, reports journalism.co.uk.
A blogger himself, he said he found the flexibility of writing a blog stimulating but wouldn’t want blogs to replace ‘old-fashioned’ newspaper columns.
As far as I’m aware, no one is currently considering doing so.
Andrew Neil, meanwhile, raises an interesting view: “The rise of blogging and opinion outside of the mainstream has caused newspapers a problem, because quite often these blogs are more interesting than the editorials in the newspapers.”