Telegraph
I think it was Backword Dave who noted that the Telegraph, once the shining example of neutral news reporting (along with the FT, of course), had become far more partisan as the election approached. This is surprising as the editor, Martin Newland, has said he is committed to "hard news" but it's true. Today's edition is a good example of this depressing trend, headlining a story with the tabloidesque "Blair caves in to Brussels".Otherwise the paper remains it's rather odd self. On Tuesday's it has a rather bizarre education column called 'Any Questions' written by John Clare. It's mostly rather reactionary, as you'd expect, for example today he says the government says 'citzenship' lessons are 'about the kind of society we are striving to build and the role of teh state in the process' which means that it is a 'non-subject'. Now I'm quite prepared to believe such lessons are done badly, but the description hardly allows one to say it is a 'non-subject'. I'm pretty sure the Telegraph in the past has called for just such lessons to be given to immigrants.
What amused me today was a reader who wrote in to ask whether Clare thought it ws morally acceptable to make his/her son pay the cost of his university education. My advice to that son is this -- pay your own fees and have nothing more to do with your parents, if they are the sort of people who write to newspaper columnists to decide how to conduct their relationship with you.
posted by Matthew @ 3/23/2005 08:27:00 PM
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