This devalues the efforts of countless tenacious, deeply knowledgeable and responsible journalists in the national and regional press doing far more to hold power to account than trending hashtags can. Print is dying, but our democracy is worse off for it. It's a tragedy.
Carol Vorderman, "Instead of newspaper reviews.. I will post something and it will get 1, 2, 3 million views.. And there are subjects trending"
"Why aren't we doing an item on what's trending on social media?"
"That's as powerful, if not more so, than another daily mail page talking about Angela Rayner"