Quote of the Week – 01/02/12

“The Daily Mail is being far too modest… the runaway success of the website owes very little to piggy-backing on ‘the strengths of the newspaper’.” Continue Reading

Quote of the Week – 25/01/12

“What we took to be the marine’s finger proved, on closer inspection, to be another part of his anatomy.” Continue Reading

Quote of the Week – 18/01/12

“Piers Morgan is capable of remembering things that didn’t happen… perhaps his diaries weren’t written contemporaneously. There are a number of glaring errors. He has tea with the wrong prime mininster.” Continue Reading

Quote of the Week – 11/1/12

“Leveson is only gradually getting the hang of how newspapers work. He seems to think editors sit around all day worrying about ethics and aid to Haiti.” Continue Reading

Quote of the Week – 05/01/12

“Digital, sadly, remains a basketcase in Scotland – used as a fig leaf by most publishers to cover the embarrassment of their declining circulations and as a sop to keep management thinking titles remain on the cutting edge.” Continue Reading

Quote of the Week – 14/12/11

“Alan Rusbridger has an agenda against the popular press, a section of the media he clearly holds in contempt.” Continue Reading

Quote of the Week – 30/11/11

“I don’t think this is an industry that is interested in or capable of self-regulation.” Continue Reading

Quote of the Week – 23/11/11

“What is happening to local journalism is poisoning the whole ecosystem of investigative journalism.” Continue Reading

 

"The Daily Mail is being far too modest… the runaway success of the website owes very little to piggy-backing on 'the strengths of the newspaper'."


The Media Blog‘s Will Sturgeon credits Mail Online’s picture desk as the “engine room” of its booming growth after comScore named it the world’s biggest newspaper site.


(Source: The Media Blog)