2011-07-18 at 3:56pm
And even high-minded newspapers such as the Guardian decided more than two decades ago to fill their pages with trivia because they judged that the general public was becoming dumber and shallower.
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Melanie Phillips, columnist for the Daily Mail. I don’t link to the Daily Mail on principle.
Let’s look at the statistics.
Number of celebrity-related stories on the front page of the Daily Mail website today: 77.
Number of celebrity-related stories on the front page of the Guardian website today: 0.
Number of Melanie Phillips columns in the Daily Mail today: 1.
Number of Melanie Phillips columns in the Guardian today: 0.
