tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10548919.post1745792966261199109..comments2023-08-22T12:11:04.451+01:00Comments on Banksy's Blog: Neath&Port Talbot no moreBanksyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12828119121143269262noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10548919.post-73295323731581277162009-10-05T11:37:54.634+01:002009-10-05T11:37:54.634+01:00I'm glad someone else has pointed this out. It...I'm glad someone else has pointed this out. It amazes me how so many media organisations have been allowed to get away with claiming that "now" cuts must be made because of the recession. As quite a few colleagues have said to me, it's hard to remember the times when the media employers were dishing out resources. Interesting too to ponder whether the definition of recession is always "losing money" or often "not making as much as we used to". Short termism is the great disease of British business.<br /><br />A former editor of mine said last week: "There is absolutely no respect for real skills that create this 'content': researching, writing, taking pictures and making things look nice via design. <br />If good journalists didn't exist, there would be nothing to fill these multi-platforms with, yet journalists are the least respected of all the professions in the supply chain."<br /><br />That kind of comment is usually dismissed as the wailing of out-of-touch journalists with no commercial nous. Which rather proves the point.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com