07 January 2016, The Tablet

It surprises me to see how much reliance broadcast news still puts on paper papers


 
There are still quiet domestic hallways, undisturbed except when the barometer is tapped as the householder passes through, where the paper flops on to the doormat each morning after the delivery boy has edged past the dripping laurel hedge.It is a daily ritual. Despite the constantly updated websites on which all the national press spends its energies, the newsprint paper remains something comfortingly tangible, like a railway ticket.It surprises me to see how much reliance broadcast news still puts on paper papers. Apart from their regularly forming the basis for broadcast topics, every night the BBC and Sky News each devote two slices of their rolling news coverage to what next day’s papers say.On one such televised front page, from The Independent, a day into the New Year, I saw
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