Roy Greenslade's Take on the Daily Mail

Nina Jones, London correspondent for Women’s Wear Daily, has shared a thought-provoking Q&A with Roy Greenslade, media critic for both The Guardian and Evening-Standard. FishbowlNY was especially taken with the journalist’s thoughts on the success of Mail Online, the world’s most read daily newspaper website.

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Greenslade frames the gargantuan success of Mail Online as a rebirth of tabloid journalism. He goes on to suggest that those toiling in the operation’s titillation-trenches view their positions very much as a mixed blessing:

“I know many of the young people who work on Mail Online, and the truth is they can’t get any other jobs.

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