Yorkshire Post editor James Mitchinson in a letter to readers asking users of the paper's website to make a voluntary monthly cash contribution: "What we do - and the way we do it - costs money. It takes time and it takes courage. In this digital age there are traps all around us. The temptation to resort to sensationalism and titillation - click-bait - has been too much for many. Having listened intently, I am convinced that you do not want this type of journalism. You want proper journalism. Quality journalism. And, if I may, I am asking you to help us to produce it... Just £5 per month is the starting point. Again if you think that which we are trying to achieve is worth more, you can pay us what you think we are worth. By doing so, you will be investing in something that is becoming increasingly rare. Independent journalism that cares less about right and left and more about right and wrong. Journalism you can trust."
PA City editor Simon Neville on Twitter: "Dear PRs. If your boss is always demanding changes to media articles over minor points, I'd suggest working on managing their expectations. If there's a factual error, we will always change it. But we're not here to change whatever 'tone' you derive from it to fit your narrative."
Barack Obama in his DNC speech said Joe Biden and Kamala Harris understand: "That a free press isn't the 'enemy' but the way we hold officials accountable."
Jeff Stelling on Twitter: "Interesting to note two
D Mail scare stories today that Britain faces a second lockdown and pandemic could last two years are both written by the same TRAINEE journalist. When I was their age/experience I was reporting on women’s institutes rather than scaring a nation to death."
Kelvin MacKenzie on Twitter: "Hear that Discovery (alongside a £20million investment from Murdoch) are launching a TV news station in the New Year called GB News. Andrew Neil and Nigel Farage due to sign. Taking on the quite dreadful Sky News. More people see my rear end than watch Kay Burley at breakfast."
Findings of latest Reuters Institute research on public views of the news media and Covid 19 coverage: "The majority of the public continues to rely on news media for information about the coronavirus as the UK heads into a complicated and uncertain autumn. BBC News (both offline and online), ITV (primarily offline), and the
Guardian (primarily online) are the three most widely used brands. But both news use, trust in news, and the overall perception of whether the news media help people understand and respond to the crisis have declined significantly since the early stages of the crisis. And a third (35%) say that they think that the coronavirus situation in the UK has been made worse by how the news media has covered it."
BBC director-general Lord Hall in his Edinburgh TV Festival speech: “Our responsibility as the UK’s most trusted news provider has never been clearer and more important. It’s right at the heart of this duty to help bring the nation together. The forces of disinformation and social media tend to feed on fracture and drive polarisation...More and more, in the fake news world, truth is a priceless commodity in our societies. So let’s not forget that, in the BBC, the UK has a remarkable asset: the pre-eminent provider to the world of facts you can trust.”
Robbie Gibb on Twitter on Lewis Goodall's article in the New Statesman: "Is there anyone more damaging to the BBC's reputation for impartiality than
@lewis_goodall ? This is so off the scale I don't even know where to begin."
Denis MacShane on Twitter: "Labour did itself big damage attacking BBC political journos over actually quite restrained coverage of Corbyn. Now top Tory Sir
@RobbieGibb attacks young BBC political reporter
@lewis_goodall for not crawling to Johnson. Tories looking rattled so early."
Daniel Finkelstein in The Times [£] on why the Government wants to appoint a press spokesman to hold White House style daily televised briefings: "The government’s motivation, I think, is this. They fancy their chances when up against the press...Their view is that the Westminster political press is self-obsessed and hares off after trivial stories that don’t interest most voters. The more the media is filmed asking such questions, goes the thinking, the more foolish, unfair or irrelevant they will appear. The government will be able to summon up its own supporters on social media to question the questioners, accusing them of unfairness or incompetence."
Rod Liddle in The Sunday Times [£]: "The Tories also insist that Johnson is up against relentlessly hostile press coverage. Ha! How the members of Momentum must laugh when they hear that."
Nick Cohen on Twitter: "Conspiracy theorists never understand that successful newspapers follow their readers. It's not such a hard idea: all businesses give their customers what they want. The fact that the
Mail is turning on Johnson tells me that opinion is shifting in Tory England."
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