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Further to the wee debate going on in the comments to the post below, I’d say that I think we may have identified something other than content, distribution, design and ad-sell that can determine the success of a major urban newspaper. In this case, thelondonpaper.

Yes, it’s that old unwritten rule of journalism: make sure you don’t accidentally accuse a multimillionaire megastar of being crackhead because you can’t tell the difference between a black American rapper and a white English indie musician.

thelondonpaper Diddy cock-up

posted on September 7, 2006 at 8:59 pm in Journalism, Music, News

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