<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/21dcf982-82c8-4615-b556-47e3daa4c93f/2A1E7143-43A8-494D-AB5D-A6AAD65C5D75/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/02/10/bodav110.xml" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/02/10/bodav110.xml" style="font-size: 11px;">www.telegraph.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/02/10/bodav110.xml"><P class="story2">Davies asked academics at Cardiff's school of journalism to compare staffing levels at national papers against column inches of news over the last 20 years. The average reporter, they discovered, is now filling three times as much space.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/02/10/bodav110.xml"><P class="story2">"Make it fast, make it first, and make it accurate," was the printed sign that hung over the newsroom, so legend tells us, of Kelvin McKenzie's Sun. "If all else fails," one member of staff had added in neat felt-tip pen, "make it up."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/02/10/bodav110.xml"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.telegraph.co.uk/img/76CC5E52-DB2E-45B4-9E6D-9F50ACA602B4" alt="Flat Earth News" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/02/10/bodav110.xml"><P class="story2">Untruths pass into common currency, he says, not because journalists are liars, but because they simply do not know whether what they are writing is true and do not have time to find out.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/02/10/bodav110.xml"><P class="story2">Davies sees this as a consequence of the logic of commerce - cut costs; increase productivity - being applied to newspapers by a new generation of corporate proprietors. His argument seems to me unanswerable - though who, other than newspaper owners, we can expect to own newspapers is a question little touched-on.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2A1E7143-43A8-494D-AB5D-A6AAD65C5D75/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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