Observer yesterday bit of a worry. Another story on Labour and antisemitism , this time based on report about social media. Please make your own checks, opinion is variable. But mine is that the Guardian Media Group is out of balance. I rarely find anything supporting Corbyn or direct quotes. Again do your own check.
Online version has photo of Tom Watson. Print version has photo of Rachel Riley , described as "Countdown presenter who has spoken out on the issue" . This understates the situation as far as I can tell. Print version Aug 4th, this tweet from Aug 2nd.
Surely the attack on the Canary is part of the story? Why ignore it in the report?
Background is the continuing decline of print circulations, the age profile of existing print subscribers, the growing use of social media for news (OFCOM report ).
The Observer story is just missing things out.
By the way, no Media Guardian today in the print version. Another £2.20 spent on false information. Maybe tomorrow there will be a banner on the front to let us know if the education people are on holiday as well.
Many years ago Guardian Unlimited Talk was trashed without warning. My guess is that pro print journalists just do not like the idea of the readers making a comment. Meanwhile various forms of news social media have gained in strength. My guess is this will continue. Comment welcome.
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