I should have been clearer. When I say the business model isn't working, I mean two things ...
1. It's not working for democracy.
2. Journalists are required to be ever more sensational in their headlines and comments in order to get readers to jump over the paywall.

However, the article above was in a free access publication. @bylinesnetwork.co.uk relies on donations to publish articles like this. It’s been remarkably successful thus far! yorkshirebylines.co.uk/the-yorkshir...

We used to call them ‘the mirror world BeeGees.’ This is what happened to people who came to Nick Gibb’s attention (me included). My opinion hasn’t changed (for the record!) #EduSky

Maybe our culture should try and do a bit more ‘adulting’ so we’re not as vulnerable to comic book journalism? (Coincidentally, my Twitter exchange with Robbie Gibb’s brother, ex-schools minister Nick Gibb is in this!).

The problem for all news production nowadays is people demand click bait sensational entertainment from it, and editors have been pushed towards that in competition for readers/ viewers/ listeners. It’s an impossible situation for the Beeb as it’s publicly funded and its charter precludes this.

This is a genuinely intolerable reality…

I should never allow myself to be disappointed with social media, should I? Maybe just be grateful Blue Sky is better than ‘the other place.’

If those bones are the little Princes’, social media haters will be out in force. No point explaining we’d still have no proof whatsoever that Richard either did it or ordered it. They’d just see a target to have go at. I’m bemused at those who jumped in on this thread without reading the article! 🙄

I must say, I was thinking of him when I was writing the article, as it was all unfolding then.

Please read the article.

And the article also makes it clear that I am not, and never have endorsed changing the museum in Leicester in any way at all. Whether my predictions for the near future pan out or not remains to be seen. If they do, I won’t have to rewrite the article!

OK, he was the last King from the house of York, and the job he did for most of his life was administering Northern England for his brother. The article explains this. And we’ll never know what he thought, or what he did otherwise (esp. with respect to the nephews). It’s a great ‘discuss’ topic.

The spirit of their charter is to report the news as it is and stay out of party politics. Although irritating, this is a reminder that we (all ‘sides’) are drowning in spin in order to tell simple stories in a complex world, and that the whole merry go round needs to stop.

It’s a mystery, isn’t it? Unless they are in broad agreement with the previous shower.