BBCNEWS The Media Show June 8, 2021 00:40:00
The world, i think you can see signs that newspapers, television, radio have all been contracting for some time. covid just sped the process along. do you think that's because audiences have lost interest and lost the taste forforeign news? no, i don't think it's anything to do with audiences, i think it's to do with money and the squeeze that journalism as a profession is experiencing. as you said, it costs a lot to have foreign correspondents. for instance, just in the issue of the case of foreign news, and that money is not there. it's not there for the sunday times and i guess it's not the...