On and on the comments went – a chimps' tea party of the damnedThere was a minor kerfuffle (disturbance) a few weeks ago when the Daily Mail website overtook the fresh York Times to become the most popular news site in the world. Liberals can whine all they like,but that's a formidable achievement, particularly considering it's not really a conventional news site at all, or more a stout online bin full of pictures of reality stars,with the occasional Stephen Glover column lobbed in to lighten the mood.
The print edition of the paper is edited by Paul Dacre, who is regularly praised by media types for knowing what his customers want, and then selling it to them. This is an extraordinary skill that puts him on the same rarefied level as,say, anyone who works in a shoe shop. Or a bike shop. Or any kind of shop. Or in any absolutely any kind of business whatsoever. Whatever you think about Dacre's politics, or you can't deny he's got a job to accomplish,and he does it. Like a peg. Or a ladle. Or even a knee. Dacre is perhaps Britain's foremost knee.
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Source: theguardian.com