The Standard celebrated the new year by having a re-design/makeover. As well as a new – and far less eye-catching – masthead, the paper has introduced a new font for its headlines. It’s a skinny-looking serif thing that experts will no doubt be able to identify. But here’s the main impression: it makes every article look like a paid-for ‘sponsored content’ advertorial pretending to be real news. Which you may think is entirely appropriate.
Best stick to HKFP. An op-ed on delays in Hong Kong in bringing criminal cases to trial…
Connoisseurs of legal bullshit will particularly enjoy Grenville Cross’s reliance on a doctrine which never applied to criminal cases and was formally abolished by the English parliament in 1769.
The January 9 Standard front page all about someone who likes living in Discovery Bay was surely a paid-for puff piece. It wasn’t even news, FFS. The front covers just prior to that were all about Trump and Venezuela.