From chip paper to clickbait: The Paper’s portrayal of an industry on its knees is painful to watch as a journalist

The show’s credits feature newspapers being used for all manner of purposes: wrapped around food or rubbish, stacked to form a platform for seeing over a fence, folded to make an impromptu sunhat. Anything, really, aside from being actually read. It’s a neat encapsulation of that old adage about today’s news becoming tomorrow’s chip paper – and a potent visual of how journalism is viewed by many in 2025.