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General election reinvigorates the power of the press – The Guardian

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    Peter Wilby:

    "The cognoscenti's verdict on the campaign was that, since voters could now directly compare the party leaders for 270 minutes on TV, catching every nuance in their voices, watching every twitch of their facial muscles, press power would drain away. Its partisanship, many judged, would look increasingly irrelevant against the calm, controlled format and inbuilt balance of the TV debates. But the newspapers weren't listening. Most ended the campaign more partisan, more hysterical, less balanced than ever. And after what happened to Clegg, who can say they were wrong?"

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By the next election, Fleet Street should get the hang of it – The Observer

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    Peter Preston:

    "Ryley [head of Sky News] has changed elections for all our lifetimes – and, though you wouldn't quite deduce it amid much press snarling, he's given newspapers a circulation transfusion as well. What happened for three Fridays in a row after those three TV debate Thursdays? Sales went up between 5% and 10%. You watched, you chatted, you wanted to compare notes: so you bought a paper.

    However, take the rest of TV's election coverage through almost four weeks of campaigning and see audiences for everything except the debates shrink away. Don't bother us with sardines when we've supped with the big fish. What's on the cooking channel?"

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The messages behind today’s national paper front pages – guardian.co.uk

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    Roy Greenslade:

    "As for The Guardian, it does something very different indeed by choosing a news headline, "Cameron eyes the prize", which is based on a poll result and which runs counter to its own general political sympathies."

    Great analysis of all (read: most) of today's national paper front pages.

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Twitter says it’s all Nick Clegg’s fault in ironic swipe at newspapers – guardian.co.uk

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    Twitter says it’s all Nick Clegg’s fault in ironic swipe at newspapers | Technology | guardian.co.uk

    Charles Arthur on #nickcleggsfault:

    "In particular the Daily Mail's use of an eight-year-old article written by Clegg for the Guardian, in which he criticises attitudes to Germany which seem stuck in the 1950s – and fail to recognise how it has reinvented itself since – for its front-page splash outraged many Twitter commentators, who rapidly pointed to the Mail's history of seeking to deny refuge to Jews fleeing the Nazis, and to Lord Rothermere's congratulatory telegram to Hitler for the Czech invasion in 1939.

    The rapid responses on Twitter indicate just how much shorter the feedback loop now is for the mainstream media and electors – and how dangerous it can be to attack politicians who are riding a wave of popularity."

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Gordon Brown joins newspaper paywall debate – Press Gazette

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