Peter Oborne leaves the Telegraph

[The Brain]

In Sweden everybody knows that you can't go to the newspapers for news about certain areas, like immigration. Plenty of alternatives around that people use.

[Sheilbh]

Denial, rebuttal, explanation, character assassination, apology. Lots of options open.

Ignoring the story makes one assume that it must be correct in every particular - a point that will be rammed home by other parts of the media.

Especially when the Telegraph follows up with stories like this:

Christ

[garbon]

Denial, rebuttal, explanation, character assassination, apology. Lots of options open.

Ignoring the story makes one assume that it must be correct in every particular - a point that will be rammed home by other parts of the media.

I'm confused. Isn't it better for the public if the truth is made plain?

[Jacob]

Denial, rebuttal, explanation, character assassination, apology. Lots of options open.

Ignoring the story makes one assume that it must be correct in every particular - a point that will be rammed home by other parts of the media.

I'm confused. Isn't it better for the public if the truth is made plain?

Presumably Gups is talking about the Telegraph's management, and thus looking at it from their perspective?

[garbon]

Why would that be a perspective that he would be interested in exploring/supporting?

[Martinus]

In a broader sense, I have no explanation, other than inertia and agent-principal conflict on the part of media houses, why the whole click culture continues unabated.

Everybody knows it's a sham - news sites are setting up multi-page "click holes" to increase the number of clicks; advertisers are fully aware of this yet are perfectly willing to pay for this; the result is the decreasing quality of online media, while the advertising power of such outlets is questionable at best in the first place.

It baffles me.