LIKE Julian Cole (The Press, April 25), I am a news junkie. As a dedicated insomniac, I am hooked on BBC World Service. After a night’s worth of horrors, any news, bathed in the purifying light of dawn, is good news.
Dailies are the media of choice. I can remember when The Times was a serious paper. I can even remember when The Guardian was a serious paper.
The Yorkshire Post still is, of course; so dour, so matter-of-factly, stubbornly Yorkshire. Best of all, if you miss a letter in The Press, it’s sure to turn up a couple of days later in the Post.
Websites are important too: Al Jazeera, Le Monde and the splendid New York Times among many others. How moving and inspiring to read news of the Marathon Massacre in the local Boston Herald.
In the glory days before pop-ups, the internet promised an emancipating freedom of information. Today, with more and more news sites becoming subscription based, that freedom is fast disappearing. Few people will subscribe to more than one.
Journalists demand the freedom to say what they like. Is it not equally important for the public to read what they like?
William Dixon Smith, Welland Rise, Acomb, York.
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