Letter from the editor: We’re proud of our Syria coverage, but not all news is bad
The IndependentThe best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy There was a lovely moment on the BBC’s This Week on 1 October, presented by Andrew Neil, when Alan Johnson, the greatest Labour prime minister that never was, was asked his view of the options facing the West in Syria. Late on 1 October, as we put the paper to bed, I read three pieces in succession: Kim Sengupta’s description of the various Syrian rebel groups ; a news story about an Italian petty criminal found dead in a London canal, tied to a shopping trolley; and then an almost unbearably harrowing dispatch from South Sudan, by Hannah McNeish, who had witnessed appalling brutality. It’s a familiar complaint that all news is bad news, and that newspapers only send reporters to cover horror, crime or deprivation.
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