Re: Well it hasn't been well for a long time
I upvoted you despite disagreeing with nearly all that you said, because it was very elegantly put and you did admit to being grumpy.
I think it'd be a sadder newsspace without Polly et al, and I do have to take issue with the 'lack of good stories' meme going on in this commentary thread; Phone hacking (yes, has gone on for a looong time, but thank christ for that - the wiggle room is getting smaller for the slimy gits as a result of the inexorable pressure applied by keeping the story in the current news cycle).
Also their many excellent FoI battles of the past year or two, fought tooth-and-nail by teh evil gov'mint, have made it a compelling read for me at least. Only problem I have is the hideously green-flavoured agenda, as in 'oh noes not more nuke power stations'.
Personally I have always preferred it to the Independent cos of its constant anti-establishment hi-jinks, and I do worry about a world with no respectable-broadsheet campaigning muscle...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
