Friday, 7 August 2009
Quotes of the Week
Rupert Murdoch: “Quality journalism is not reduced. The digital circuit has opened assorted revitalized and low-priced allotment channels but it has not made contented gratis. We degraded to annoyance during all our newsflash websites.”Jeff Jarvis in the Guardian on Murdoch’s envision: “If you can annoyance during your contented - if you are the FT or the Wall Street Journal, the exclusively brands that do it successfully - and your readers can make indemnification for mazuma on your contented, and pass the fare of it onto their employers I comprise nothing against it. But during most, pinning hopes during the survival of newsflash on charging during it is not exclusively unfortunate but by any chance suicidal.”Newsweek on its jailed Tehran newspaperwoman Maziar Bahari and his spouse Paola: “In the discontinue, the pain of Maziar, Paola, and all who option them discretion be inseparable that requires brute austerity and firmness.

Law and design are inapt in a heyday of expo trials. I look ease to joining them in faЗade of the Venezuelan embassy in London to chase away dotty gratis journalism in Latin America.”Liz Jones in the Independent on ageism in journalism: “I worked at the Sunday Times during 11 years, and there were lots of in the end handy women working there. Like the matrons on the streets of Tehran, inseparable can exclusively hope-without in the end suggestive it-that those wielding the clubs that take them power in the courts as obviously as in the streets discretion produced to their senses, or distinctly bear up themselves out of order, and that then, come hell, the nightmare discretion discontinue.”Denis MacShane MP in the Guardian on laws proposed old times Hugo Chбvez which could over journalists jailed: “It is verifiable to over how the NUJ, Ken Livingstone or Labour MPs can face a revitalized law that silences journalism. Meriel McCooey, the manner compiler, was hugely inspirational and side-splitting. The puzzles compiler, Barbara Hall, did the entirety on a instructions typewriter.

And of go ahead Dilys Powell, the conceal critic. These women were incredibly nurturing of the younger ones, like me.