By any measure you care to use, British newsman Peter Preston deserves respect.
A former editor of the Guardian, the paper’s investigative reporting on his watch – including the infamous ‘cash for questions’ scandal – hastened the (admittedly unhasty) end of 18 years of Conservative government in the UK.
Today, Preston is still at Guardian Media Group, writing a weekly column for the Observer newspaper about the decline and fall of printed news in the Internet age.
But not this week.
This week, respected newsman Peter Preston has good news. The decline and fall of printed news has been greatly exaggerated! And to those who say that the Internet is killing newspapers, Peter says “pshaw” – a recent study has shown that not to be the case. Or as the headline to his column today reads “We thought the internet was killing print. But it isn’t”
To which I say, “oh do shut up, respected newsman Peter Preston.”