It’s true that Rusbridger had accepted an invitation to join a commission on the future of Irish media. He withdrew after being forced to apologise for allowing, while editor of the Guardian, an attack written by IRA supporter, Roy Greenslade, on Mairia Cahill who had been raped by a member of the IRA, Greenslade had also been been writing under a false name for the IRA weekly newspaper, An Phoblacht, for many years. He is now reported to be an enthusiastic Sinn Fein activist.
David Shipley
2 years ago
Ian Hislop is another one. Ingrams handed Private Eye over to him when Ingrams was 48 and Hislop was 26. Hislop is now 61 and as establishment as they come, but still clinging onto the job.
Brendan O'Leary
2 years ago
Nice work if you can get it, I guess.
The death of journalism by internet has been coming for 25 years. It’s amazing that some of these old hacks can still make an elite-level living out of it.
Ferrusian Gambit
2 years ago
I think it has been clear for many years journalism is a dying profession. You’d be a fool to try to go in now.
Possibly why it has descended into activism. It needs to find new ‘evils’ to write about, hence the endless racialization of discourse.
Richard Powell
2 years ago
I shall be interested to see if Mr Rusbridger can reverse the decline at Prospect. Reading it has become a chore, and there have been some notably bad articles recently, for example by David Renton who argues that radical students should bully, harass and disrupt visiting speakers of whom they disapprove, and an anti-woman piece by Angela Saini. My subscription runs until next spring and will be cancelled unless the magazine really pulls its socks up.
It’s true that Rusbridger had accepted an invitation to join a commission on the future of Irish media. He withdrew after being forced to apologise for allowing, while editor of the Guardian, an attack written by IRA supporter, Roy Greenslade, on Mairia Cahill who had been raped by a member of the IRA, Greenslade had also been been writing under a false name for the IRA weekly newspaper, An Phoblacht, for many years. He is now reported to be an enthusiastic Sinn Fein activist.
Ian Hislop is another one. Ingrams handed Private Eye over to him when Ingrams was 48 and Hislop was 26. Hislop is now 61 and as establishment as they come, but still clinging onto the job.
Nice work if you can get it, I guess.
The death of journalism by internet has been coming for 25 years. It’s amazing that some of these old hacks can still make an elite-level living out of it.
I think it has been clear for many years journalism is a dying profession. You’d be a fool to try to go in now.
Possibly why it has descended into activism. It needs to find new ‘evils’ to write about, hence the endless racialization of discourse.
I shall be interested to see if Mr Rusbridger can reverse the decline at Prospect. Reading it has become a chore, and there have been some notably bad articles recently, for example by David Renton who argues that radical students should bully, harass and disrupt visiting speakers of whom they disapprove, and an anti-woman piece by Angela Saini. My subscription runs until next spring and will be cancelled unless the magazine really pulls its socks up.
Cancelled my sub years ago. No loss
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