Reading the Evening Standard these days is a sorry state of affairs. The Daily Mail and General Trust, publishers of the Evening standard and sister rag The Daily Mail must be shaking in their middle England boots as it looks like the age of the newspaper draws to a discrete close. Why? Three stories in today’s Evening Standard were concerning stories that are Big On The Internet – a make-up video for Chavs on Youtube, another video of chavs beating each other up, also on Youtube, and a story about Dell laptops catching fire as seen on the internet of course. The Newspapers are now left standing by new technology.
Mail/Standard Journalism now consists of students with an A-Level in media studies surfing the interweb for stories that contravene the Middle-England Moral Code. Of course we know that the Mail/Standard are hypocritical liars protecting the right wing dream that is no longer relevant. How do I know? Well I just do. I encounter Daily Mail/Evening Standard journalists in the flesh most weeks. Their building is located near where I live in London and they drink in a pub that I frequent. I see them in there all red faced and pissed, smoking like beagles and leering over Sharon from the typing pool. I see them stagger back to their offices no doubt to write an article bemoaning the outrageous consequences of binge drinking in today’s society. I watch them crowd and shout around the bar like aggressive white shirted scum and I wonder what qualifies these people to question the behaviour of England supporters abroad when their own moral standards are so low. I watch and I see them. I also see how the majority of these journos are old soaks – not one young blade between them. Why? Because what poor fucker wants to work for a dated organ such as The Mail when we have the benefits of instant, un-biased reportage courtesy of, yes, the internet. The kids want to work in new technologies. So what does the floundering Mail/Standard have left but to report on the news already on the internet 24 hours previously. The news is reporting other news. The reasons I gloat in the demise of the Mail/Standard are many but the biggest is that I won’t have to put up with those odious twats in the pub anymore.