When protesters burned news kiosks in Paris, I had to take a stand…
by John Lichfield in Paris from World news | The Guardian on (#4BP29)
The militant wing of the French protests picked on a beloved institution. So I set up a crowdfunder to help
In 47 years of journalism, few things have shocked me as deeply as the sight of burning newspaper kiosks on the Champs-ilysi(C)es.
Journalists are supposed to be neutral observers - impassioned but dispassionate. Forget all that. This was personal. This was an attack on the print newspapers that had been my life's blood from the day I joined the Bolton Evening News in 1972 until the Independent stopped printing in 2016. This was an attack on something endearingly Parisian, something as instantly recognisable as the Eiffel Tower or the burned-rubber smell of the Mi(C)tro.
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