Thursday, 30 August 2007
The Guardian Doesn't Get It
So many councils are now run by Tories that the Guardian is afraid of losing some of the public sector advertising revenue (i.e., taxpayers' money) without which it would go bust. But it is barking up the wrong tree by backing David Cameron, who could not be less like the Tories who actually win elections in today's Britain.
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You're nuts, or deliberately distorting things. The Guardian clearly isn't backing Cameron. I'm not saying the Michael White article is a great one, but his discussion of Cameron's tactics clearly doesn't amount to an endorsement of his politics.
ReplyDeleteIt's as near as he could get away with. For now.
ReplyDeleteThere will be much, much more of this from the Guardian, which genuinely does not realise that all those Tory Councillors out there are utterly unlike David Cameron, despise him, and would happily lose the next Election in order to get rid of him, on the perfectly reasonable grounds that there would no absolutely political change even if he won.
Won't go bust while they own hundreds of local and regional papers with the free sheets in particular doing really really well.
ReplyDeleteHad a frank exchange of views with the GMG bean counter in chief when they were closing City Life magazine. And I simply mentioned a figure of £14,000 per week as the revenue for one of their free sheets. £1500 for content and a similar amount to print. £550,000 per annum.
Multiplied by however many of the things they own. c £350M profit that year anyway.
They don't have to suck up to Tories to stay in business. That is the knack of the Scott Trust.
That doesn't seem to be stopping them. So what is it? Do they actually believe it?
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