Goodbye to the Independent newspaper

[DotCommunist]

Wasn't this the paper that had lots of typos when it launched. Which was cute.

Well I'm glad it's gone.
Now all the others please.

no thats the guardian hence the decades long graniuad mispellings done on purpose for lols

 

[hot air baboon]

Wasn't this the paper that had lots of typos when it launched. Which was cute.

...more notable for their patented random front page news story generator....although it was a bit better then the Daily Express one...

...anyway what are cattle-class british airways passengers going to do for reading matter now though....

 

[Sprocket.]

We buy the i regularly purely for the ease of reading something reasonably informative and not full of here today gone tomorrow celebrities and royals. The quiz section is okay too.

 

[Pickman's model]

...more notable for their patented random front page news story generator....although it was a bit better then the Daily Express one...

...anyway what are cattle-class british airways passengers going to do for reading matter now though....

 

[BigMoaner]

problem is wiht newspapers closing is that they are fact generators. they do actually report facts, most of the time. and by reading a paper you come across stories you would not have nromally noticed.

Healthy societies need people churning out facts. What is replacing newspapers doesn't quite cut it, does it? A lot of the stuff on social media links to newspaper articles, which social media is killing...

 

[chilango]

*shrugs*

Whatever. Hope The Guardian is next.

 

[Pickman's model]

*shrugs*

Whatever. Hope The Guardian is next.

i hope not. otherwise i'll have to find something else to line the cat's litter tray.

 

[killer b]

problem is wiht newspapers closing is that they are fact generators. they do actually report facts, most of the time. and by reading a paper you come across stories you would not have nromally noticed.

Healthy societies need people churning out facts. What is replacing newspapers doesn't quite cut it, does it? A lot of the stuff on social media links to newspaper articles, which social media is killing...

it's ok, we have Huffington Post and The Canary to fall back on.

 

[BigMoaner]

But the Guardian are better than all the rest because they have a social conscience when they are not nattering about private schools and living room designs, don't you know?

 

[littlebabyjesus]

yes. but it sells separately: when people buy the i they are not buying the independent. do you see? it's not a difficult concept.

The Johnston Press, which is taking over the i, also sells its vast array of local newspapers separately. However, large amounts of their content are the same, produced just the once and shared across them, thus reducing the per-unit operating costs.

Do you see?

 

[BigMoaner]

it's ok, we have Huffington Post and The Canary to fall back on.

ha true

also i rarely "stumble" across something online. I just search and read the shit that i want to. I suppose urban75 does help with that, but even then it's normally scewed heavily towards the left which is fine, but it sort of confirms my own biases most of the time anyway. a few people i follow on twitter draw my eye to other things, but its not the same as sitting down with a massive sunday paper and just digesting article after article of things that sort of exist outside of ones own interests but then become new interests.

 

[BigMoaner]

i suppose i should just buy Sunday Papers again like i used too!

 

[Pickman's model]

The Johnston Press, which is taking over the i, also sells its vast array of local newspapers separately. However, large amounts of their content are the same, produced just the once and shared across them, thus reducing the per-unit operating costs.

Do you see?

you say this like it is something previously unheard of, as though this hadn't been a feature of british newspapers since at least the nineteenth century.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

you say this like it is something previously unheard of, as though this hadn't been a feature of british newspapers since at least the nineteenth century.

You are an idiot.

 

[Lurdan]

There was an interesting background piece yesterday when the advanced state of the negotiations over the sale of the i became public.

Why Johnston Press has its sights on the i – and where the deal would leave the Independent and its anxious staff - The Drum

They are selling the i while its still successful, selling

275,000 copies a day to a mostly youthful and student readership and represents a remarkable success story on the UK’s long-depressed national newspaper landscape.

(...)

So why are the Lebedevs willing to sell? The answer to that lies partly in the fact that, genuinely enthusiastic newspaper proprietors that they are, their fortunes have suffered a major decline on the Russian oligarch Richter scale. They are also thought to want to prioritise their other trend-bucking success story, the free-version London Evening Standard, which is now turning a handsome profit, winning over valuable advertisers in and around the capital and, it’s rumoured, soon to increase its daily print run to a million-plus.

(...)

It's understood that the Lebedevs have spent the last two years trying to find an outright buyer, or major investor, for the Independent and Independent on Sunday without success... although a potential deal with a wealthy Middle Eastern buyer reached an advanced stage early last year before it fell through.

(...)

Meanwhile, as a strange week in the UK newspaper world draws to a close, many worried Telegraph group journalists are convinced that, despite denials, the Barclay family’s decision to call in Deloitte to carry out a ‘review’ is the prelude to offers being invited for the Daily and Sunday Telegraph.

 

[Pickman's model]

You are an idiot.

i've always previously admired the adult way you never descend to ad hominem nonsense.

 

[BigMoaner]

i know they can be shit but newspapers, half decent ones Times/Telegraph/Guardian/Independant (no matter who they are owned by), DO broaden the mind, imo. Sit down with any well funded newspaper and you can't help but learn stuff.

 

[DotCommunist]

the guardian keeps me well informed about kitchen widgets I niether want nor can afford so in a way maybe it does teach me stuff. Hatred?

 

[Pickman's model]

the guardian keeps me well informed about kitchen widgets I niether want nor can afford so in a way maybe it does teach me stuff. Hatred?

they see it as aspiration

 

[Pickman's model]

i know they can be shit but newspapers, half decent ones Times/Telegraph/Guardian/Independant (no matter who they are owned by), DO broaden the mind, imo. Sit down with any well funded newspaper and you can't help but learn stuff.

yeh like how much shit's in them.

 

[BigMoaner]

who under 30 reads a newspaper - lol. they are fucked. the advertising revenue online will never generate anything like it used to so we will see the decline of expensive, well resourced journalism end in this country.

 

[BigMoaner]

it'll be the film industry next, you watch.

 

[BigMoaner]

then books

 

[BigMoaner]

nets working their magic

 

[DotCommunist]

it'll be the film industry next, you watch.

its all about cable tv shows now. Game of Thrones is so big they put the Iron Throne in the tower of London by crane when launching the last series. The Queen came and had a look (didn't sit on it, would have been hilarious if she had). Everyones on netflix.

 

[danny la rouge]

its all about cable tv shows now. Game of Thrones is so big they put the Iron Throne in the tower of London by crane when launching the last series. The Queen came and had a look (didn't sit on it, would have been hilarious if she had). Everyones on netflix.

I'm not.

 

[danny la rouge]

Sorry, wrong thread.

 

[phildwyer]

who under 30 reads a newspaper - lol. they are fucked. the advertising revenue online will never generate anything like it used to so we will see the decline of expensive, well resourced journalism end in this country.

And the (continued) rise of conspiracy theories, superstition and intellectual mob rule.

 

[BigMoaner]

its all about cable tv shows now. Game of Thrones is so big they put the Iron Throne in the tower of London by crane when launching the last series. The Queen came and had a look (didn't sit on it, would have been hilarious if she had). Everyones on netflix.

so all that culture, meeting mates as teen to go watch a film, first dates, the boredom filler of watching a film in the arvo, that whole massive slice of culture for all people of all ages and classes, going - to be replaced by us sitting at home watching netflix in our gruds whilst reading the news on facebook.

 

[Idris2002]

the guardian keeps me well informed about kitchen widgets I niether want nor can afford so in a way maybe it does teach me stuff. Hatred?

Once again you display the politics of envy. Poor show.

And the (continued) rise of conspiracy theories, superstition and intellectual mob rule.

I for one welcome our new post-literate overlords.