{"id":587,"date":"2004-02-16T15:53:21","date_gmt":"2004-02-16T15:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2004\/02\/serious_tabloid\/"},"modified":"2004-02-16T15:53:21","modified_gmt":"2004-02-16T15:53:21","slug":"serious_tabloid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/serious_tabloid\/","title":{"rendered":"Serious Tabloid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Francis Wheen seems to be attached to the proposed <a href=\"http:\/\/media.guardian.co.uk\/presspublishing\/story\/0,7495,1149411,00.html\">high-brow tabloid<\/a> that is in the early stages of being launched. He&#8217;s certainly a credible addition to the venture, but you do have to ask the question &#8211; is there room for a new paper?<br \/>\nI can quite easily buy the argument that some of our broadsheets are going downmarket &#8211; The Times and Daily Telegraph could be said to have fallen into this category. But it&#8217;s quite possible that the new Telegraph owners could drag it back upmarket, and I&#8217;d certainly argue that The Independent and The Guardian remain upmarket titles. The Independent will be fully tabloid in a matter of months, so that issue is out the window, and I don&#8217;t really see the reason for dropping photos to a large extent.<br \/>\nIt all seems a bit like the Sunday Correspondent which had a short run back in the late 80s but only lasted a short while. The only real difference would be not taking a left-leaning political stance as a title. But the Indy and Guardian aren&#8217;t exactly daily editions of the Socialist Worker.<br \/>\nMaybe a new weekly magazine would have a better chance. Something not as overtly political as the New Statesman or The Spectator. A weekly version of Prospect perhaps?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francis Wheen seems to be attached to the proposed high-brow tabloid that is in the early stages of being launched. He&#8217;s certainly a credible addition to the venture, but you do have to ask the question &#8211; is there room for a new paper? I can quite easily buy the argument that some of our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}