….there’s a certain truth to it:
“When Paddy moved to the Sunday Telegraph after 25 years working for supposedly liberal papers, he said he had to join a right-wing paper in order to meet a working-class journalist,” said Henderson.
….there’s a certain truth to it:
“When Paddy moved to the Sunday Telegraph after 25 years working for supposedly liberal papers, he said he had to join a right-wing paper in order to meet a working-class journalist,” said Henderson.
Threw himself under a train at Barnes. Sad.
Late ‘60s “he got a job on the Guardian in Manchester. But bylines were hard to come by in his first nine years, at least in the London edition.”
I knew the Guardian started in Manchester and moved to London, somewhere around then, but hadn’t realised it had separate Manchester and London editions.
RichardT: Yes, that is an interesting nugget. Makes me wonder if the “move” was actually more like a takeover by the London crowd.
The Manchester Guardian was a proper newspaper, with fact-checking and correct orthography. Things went rapidly downhill following the move to London.