The Grauniad seems to be dying - hurrah!

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I doubt Polly will be selling her Tuscan villa any time soon, but it will be a wonderful day when the BBC's in-house journal gets what it deserves.

www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/media/8580566/Job-cull-looms-at-The-Guardian.html

Why the need to sneer? You and LFN are equally unpleasant in the way you post this stuff.

wow OP you're a real peach aren't you

so should all the news media come from a single political angle? how unhealthy would that be?! i know let's just let murdoch run it all...

I don't think complimentary is being unpleasant, just truthful about the number of copies of the Guardian left in her post office. I have heard her say this many times . complimentary is a very amusing poster, guaranteed to liven things up.

Sneering is unpleasant though, claig ...

Lfn you are so wrong to applaud the loss of a left wing newspaper just because you are right wing. That's terrible.

Really I think it's utterly disgusting to gloat at this. Free and wide-ranging press, that's what we need.

gooseberry...we will never stop rightwingers gloating, it's what they do....

I am a right-winger

God why did I click on the thread? Knew exactly who it was going to be, being boringly predicatable.....actually do you think this stuff is written by a bot somewhere???

'I am a right-winger'

Gooseberrybushes, I always thought you were, due to the eminent sense that you so often speak. Correct me if I am wrong, but from the sagacity and perspicacity of your comments, I always had you down as a Daily Mail reader. But can you please stop gloating?

Oops. I was fooled by the eminent good sense of which you speak Claig, into thinking she was of my persuasion. I guess we all want to think the intelligent ones are on our side...

another thing Claig. YOu can write and clearly have brains. WHAT IS WITH THE FLIPPING DAILY MAIL STUFF? REALLY WHAT?? Do you work for them, is that it? Is Murdoch putting bread on the Claig family table?

I don't work for the Daily Mail. I just think it is a great paper. Murdoch is not in charge of the Daily Mail. It is a beacon of hope in a murky sea, the light that enables one clearly to see.

I do like to send it up a bit. It's not as great as all that, but it's damn close.

Gooseberrybushes. What loss?
Claig are you a poet and don't know it? That last post rhymed!
Blackduck. The bot is called LFN.

It just came out naturally, no forethought involved at all. That's what reading the Mail does to you; it's positively Shakespearean.

BecauseImworthit. I don't sneer at that rag. The Guardian does all the sneering itself! At the working classes! They have been accused of sneering on countless occassions!
www.guardian.co.uk/media Goodnight all zzzzzzzzzzzzz

Yes Claig. "You are a beacon of hope in a dark murky sea, the light that enables one clearly to see" Great stuff, you truly are wasted on here! night. night.

'you truly are wasted on here'

How dare you! I've only had one drink. Goodnight.

I think it's a tragedy the Guardian going over. If it is. Anybody who really thinks this is great because now there'll be nothing to challenge the might of the right wing press has really gone off on one.

Tory Central office if you ask me Complimentary.....

Oh you still her lfn. We missed you

Maybe it's because the Guardian poured so much money into digital which isn't showing a return. And their answer is to invest even more into digital... someone needs to come up with a way to make money out of news online. Someone has to pay for journalists to go and do journalism. Of whatever political persuasion. Or we will all lose out. (Disclaimer - I am a journalist. And I have written for titles on either end of the political spectrum.)

Edam - did you see my link earlier in the thread. It includes some ideas for making money from digital media (might be in the follow on comments).

One idea is fully utilising the value of the Guardian brand. Which roughly translates as getting more money from it's customers. This can be either directly (getting customers to pay for extra's) or indirectly (selling info about valuable customers to third parties).

But, both of these methods would require a cultural shift for the Guardian.