Currybet.net: On the media burying its own bad news
July 20th, 2009Posted by Laura Oliver in Editors' pick, Newspapers
Martin Belam picks up on a blog post from No Rock And Roll Fun, which comments on the case of the BBC’s recent £45,000 payout in damages plus costs to the Muslim Council of Britain for comments made by a ‘panelist’ on Question Time.
The panelist was not named in the Telegraph’s report (nor the BBC’s) of the payout – despite being named elsewhere as the title’s ex-editor Charles Moore.
“With the impact of digital distribution, and the effect of the economic downturn, we have more than enough reasons to think that the news industry is dying. Treating our remaining paying customers like children who haven’t learnt to use Google yet makes us look like we have a collective death wish,” writes Belam.
Tags: BBC, Charles Moore, Currybet.net, editor, ex-editor, GBP, google, Martin Belam, Muslim Council of Britain, telegraph, the Telegraph
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