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The big media news this lunchtime is that the Indy and Indy on Sunday will stop producing printed editions at Easter but is going to continue in an online form.
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EU Game Changer.
Lady Chestnut has just received a letter from Marks and Spencers informing her that her loyalty points scheme will now be less generous following an EU ruling about lower charges from card providers to businesses.
She's now a Leave.
Tilting at Greenies and Corbynistas.
Does that being a story mean that Osborne's brother being convicted for sleeping with a patient is now also a legitimate line of attack? Since when are people to be held accountable for their relatives' actions?
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Will McHoebag
Anti-austerity Independent closing down. Anti-austerity Guardian close to failing too. Why don't they just spend their way out of debt..?
http://dunyanews.tv/en/Pakistan/322120-Arrest-warrants-of-TahirulQadri-and-Imran-Khan-i
I still prefer to read papers in print than on the smartphone on the train or tube
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But yes, the future of news is instant and electronic; the future of quality writing is weekly or monthly (as it always has been). I'm not sure there's space in between.
Is it also fair to say Thatcher "hung out with paedophiles" on the basis of her meeting Jimmy Savile a few times?
http://wfae.org/post/diverse-views-and-trick-politics-why-gop-primary-sc-may-be-dirtiest-country
I've done so since The Times went paywall, have paid for the Telegraph and Sun for a year.
It's less than buying a paper copy. The Times is c£8 a month.
Yes. Those days seem very far off now - it's remarkable how long this second-rate rag has survived really.
Imagine if all of us tweeting about the death of the Independent had actually bought it.
It is amazing how CAGE always seems to come up....This guy says he is was naive and now a respectable lawyer, but there are links to CAGE...and of course Babar Ahmad is in the mix.
FWIW, by the way, I think that the "Osborne brother struck off" stories are unfairly hyped and an example of why our media is one of the sleaziest in Europe. The legitimate public interest in relatives of well-known people is zero. Osborne's brother's difficulties must be worrying for his family. They are no concern of ours.
Also on a personal level my good friend Nigel Morris who I shared a house with at Uni is the Deputy Political Editor. Hoping he manages to keep his job on the E-Edition.
The picture above is in some senses misleading. As the article above shows, whilst the paper was feigning defiance to islamic terrorism in recent years, it was at the same time desperately searching for the racist white backlash it thought would inevitably ensue. MUST ensue.
That isn't journalism, surely.
"on May 21 2005 and then in June 2006. Khan applied to see Ahmad not as an MP, but as a friend, the report says."
Babar Ahmad in 2014 pleaded guilty to "conspiracy and providing material to support to terrorism".
Edit And who remembers Maxwells The European?!
Funny thing about Russian spies wanting to own papers
I stand by that you can literally say almost ANYONE is "dodgy" if you're going to base it on such tenuous links. It's practically Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon stuff.
Watching its decline has been like seeing a once good restaurant become a KFC.
http://www.waitrose.com/content/waitrose/en/home/mywaitrose/newspaper_offer.html?wtrint=1-Content-_-2-My Account-_-3-mywaitrose_welcome-_-4-myWaitrose-_-5-mw-_-6-Newspaper
"Scotland Yard launched a criminal investigation into allegations of child sex abuse by Savile spanning six decades,[7] describing him as a "predatory sex offender", and later stated that they were pursuing more than 400 lines of inquiry based on the testimony of 300 potential victims via 14 police forces across the UK."
OMG someone launch an investigation into that paedo-sympathiser Thatcher.
The prosecution has said Hassane, from west London, might have been inspired by so-called Islamic State.
The Old Bailey trial will continue on Monday with three other men.
They face similar charges.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-35561247
West London again...what's the chances he knew the Jahadi John and the rest of the Beatles?
"Just tell me what the fucking news is and I'll put it on the front page. It's not like we're the Independent. We can't just stick a headline saying CRUELTY then stick a picture of a dolphin or a whale underneath it."
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-35559244
With no Independent, the reviews will inevitably tend to the right as you can't credibly fill the Indy gap with even more from the Grauniad.
I suspect many will, stop buying printed news and just read online, and others will move to the 'I' but not all. I suspect that each of the Times and Guardian will pick up at least some, but not sure how many, anybody what to predict how many go each way?
Wonder if we will see the times dropping its prise to encourage switchers that way?
thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/why-are-all-the-pubs-closing-ask-people-who-never-go-to-the-pub-200903051623
And they're both still alive.
40 Scottish Labour MPs who lost seats were 'fucking useless' - says *Labour* Shad Cabinet minister. Gift to @theSNP.
https://t.co/Wan22Si2Ww
Warning signs had been out there for a long, long time for those who were looking.
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Plus people like John Rentoul et al are certainly not left wing journalists
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/02/12/opinion/louise-mensch-britain-better-off-out-of-europe.html
The difference with Khan is that Ahmed was already charged and arrested at the time. I can understand the case for him to have been tried and imprisoned in the UK rather than the US. It's perfectly legitimate for MPs to press for that even for convicted criminals (and in 2005, he wasn't that yet). The question about Khan's links with Ahmed are whether they went further than that at a time when there was compelling evidence to suggest he was more than a bit dodgy.
When I do a morning thread for PB, my first place to look for ideas for the thread is to look at the morning front pages.
Actually, the biggest bias in the Beeb is not left over right but 'broadsheet' over 'tabloid'. When was anything in the Sun last reported? It's not all tits and footie.
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