http://blog.oup.com/2009/06/jackson-1980s/ Introducing brilliant authors to the blogosphere. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:43:07 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blog.oup.com/2009/06/jackson-1980s/comment-page-1/#comment-152717 Joe Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:23:55 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=4902#comment-152717 Media in the 80's: the British Guardian ran an article some time ago by having a look at what papers were like in 1984: much calmer, no pundits, angry finger jabbing, no commentariat. And it could be that many people would like the media more like that than they are nowadays. And in that case it would not be a nostalgia but a consumer wish. (No critic at all the great article.) So much news but so little comment http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/may/18/newspaper-industry Media in the 80’s: the British Guardian ran an
article some time ago by having a look at what
papers were like in 1984: much calmer, no pundits, angry finger jabbing, no commentariat.
And it could be that many people would like the media more like that than they are nowadays. And in that case it would not be a nostalgia but a consumer wish. (No critic at all the great article.)
So much news but so little comment
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/may/18/newspaper-industry

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