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Quote of the Week – 01/02/12

Barny de Hoedt — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:09:12 +0000

“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)

Quote of the Week – 25/01/12

Barny de Hoedt — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:19:14 +0000

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

Radio Times apologises after publishing a group photo of marines, which included a ”rogue member” with his privates on parade.

(Source: Mail Online)

Quote of the Week – 18/01/12

Barny de Hoedt — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:03:47 +0000

“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.”

Private Eye editor Ian Hislop in typically mealy-mouthed form at the Leveson Inquiry. (Source: BBC)

Quote of the Week – 11/1/12

Michael Copus — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:34:23 +0000

“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.”

Michael White, writing in the Guardian, reckons Lord Leveson is only just getting to grips with the machinations of the press.

(Source: The Guardian)

Quote of the Week – 05/01/12

Barny de Hoedt — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:17:26 +0000

“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.”

Media commentator Iain Hepburn laments the decline of his native newspaper industry, where “once great media hubs” have become “little more than shills shoveling off press releases”. (Source: The Drum)

Quote of the Week – 14/12/11

Barny de Hoedt — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:02:27 +0000

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

The Sun‘s managing editor Richard Caseby claims the Guardian editor “sexed up” the phone hacking story. (Source: Press Gazette)

Quote of the Week – 30/11/11

Barny de Hoedt — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:50:18 +0000

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

Guardian investigative journalist Nick Davies claims the press cannot be trusted to regulate itself.

(Source: MediaGuardian)

Quote of the Week – 23/11/11

Barny de Hoedt — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:12:11 +0000

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

The Daily Telegraph’s Andrew Gilligan says the demise of local papers means that “huge areas of the country and huge areas of power are going effectively unscrutinised”.

(Source: MediaGuardian)

Quote of the Week

Barny de Hoedt — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:47:44 +0000

“Tom Watson… reached such a crescendo of implausible Victorian melodrama as to make Brian Blessed seem like Clement Freud sucking on a mogadon.”

Sacked News of the World reporter Neville Thurlbeck mocks Labour MP Tom Watson’s attempt to label James Murdoch a mafia boss. (Source: Press Gazette)

Quote of the Week 09/11/11

Michael Copus — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:45:30 +0000

“Of course I would love it to be a million every night but I’ve not been set a target [by Channel 4]. We would all like the numbers to go up but it’s not what this is about.”

That’s the way to do it. Channel 4 bosses realise the news shouldn’t have to chase audience figures, as editor Jim Gray reveals.

(Source: MediaGuardian)