Iain MacWhirter: Keeping the flame of serious journalism burning bright

WHEN I started writing for the Sunday Herald at its launch in 1999, I was repeatedly told that it would only last six months. Well, it survived a bit longer than that. Indeed, the longevity of the printed press, despite repeated predictions of its imminent demise, tells us something about the enduring importance of what used to be called “quality” journalism. In the era of fake news, Twitter storms and identity politics, the press for all its many faults still performs an important function, which is sometimes just to be a voice of relative sanity in a sea of emotional madness. . http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16682922.iain-macwhirter-keeping-the-flame-of-serious-journalism-burning-bright/