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Journalists also help chew through raw material. A lot of it is lengthy and to the lay-person not easy to understand because they might lack context or jargon o
by spinach 7y ago
Journalists also help chew through raw material. A lot of it is lengthy and to the lay-person not easy to understand because they might lack context or jargon or history of the matters under discussion, so journalists can help make sense of things. Taking in raw politics is like chewing an unbaked potato for most, helps to have someone cook it first before digesting it.
- dingaling 7y agoMost UK newsrooms just play the he said / she said game and then move on to the next story without really digging. There are very few with the collective memory and insight of Private Eye, which often connects widely-spaced dots to make sense of politics. Interestingly Eye is very slim and only published fortnightly, which reflects the work involved in doing the job properly. And they are very seldom wrong.
- isostatic 7y agoEye is slim, buts it’s dense. There’s more content in Priavte Eye than in two weeks of the Telegraph.