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Article: Media: So what is journalism? The two ends of the newspaper market can't agree Amid the continuing fall-out from the British Press Awards, Peter Wilby asks if there is a place for methods employed by the red-tops ...
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- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 27, 2005
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In principle, I applaud the decision by the editors of up-market
papers to withdraw from the British Press Awards. But I also detect
snobbery. The posh papers do not like being judged alongside the
tabloids. They would prefer the press awards to be like the Booker
Prize, where the palm goes to some impenetrably "difficult" novel and
nobody would dream of honouring a mass-seller by, say, Georgette
Heyer or Jeffrey Archer.
I have some sympathy. A long New Statesman report that revealed
how the US sent suspected terrorists to be tortured in such countries
as Egypt and Syria was recently shortlisted for an award alongside
the celebrated Hutton report scoop by The Sun's Trevor Kavanagh. Our ...