Newspapers spend a lot of time criticising each other. And rightly so: Private Eye can't do everything. But how often do the punters have a chance to discuss the relative merits of the national press? Not often - or at least, not in a public forum. So I was fascinated to find this discussion on the Virtual Stoa, a largely political blog, on whether Britain's broadsheets (past and current) have got better or worse over the past half-decade.
Incidentally, we recently polled readers of the Wrap, our digest of the daily papers, on what the new breed of shrunken "quality" papers ought to be called. Little sheets was proposed (geddit?) but the suggestion I liked best was "heavyweights". It's literally true, at least ...
