Tim Worstall (where I can comment again!) on a conundrum of modern times - 'Guardian journalists' continued employment'....
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Steven
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The utter hubris of the Grauniad blaming the loss of local newspapers for the rise of Reform is astonishing. In my old stomping grounds of Greater Manchester, there used to be a local paper for each of the ten boroughs. However, this cannot regarded as independent journalism as most of these were simply swallowed up parts of the Manchester Evening News group, which in turn was owned by the Guardian group for about 120 years. Then it was sold to Trinity Mirror from 2009, now known as Reach. Some years ago they stopped even pretending that these "local" papers were anything other than a subset of the parent company and just issue a weekly round-up cut and pasted from the MEN; same journalists, same words, same one-sided attitude.
2 comments:
The utter hubris of the Grauniad blaming the loss of local newspapers for the rise of Reform is astonishing. In my old stomping grounds of Greater Manchester, there used to be a local paper for each of the ten boroughs. However, this cannot regarded as independent journalism as most of these were simply swallowed up parts of the Manchester Evening News group, which in turn was owned by the Guardian group for about 120 years. Then it was sold to Trinity Mirror from 2009, now known as Reach. Some years ago they stopped even pretending that these "local" papers were anything other than a subset of the parent company and just issue a weekly round-up cut and pasted from the MEN; same journalists, same words, same one-sided attitude.
Indeed!
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