Should I take the free Evening Standard? Moral dilema

[Sadken]

Or they could form a strip troupe?

 

[hipipol]

or pool their wedge and restart the Evening News

 

[smokedout]

I think this is nonsense, and missing the point.

Why is it demeaning to give away a paper?

very different working conditions - in the little stalls they were undercover, sat down, got to chat to people and get to know their customers

instead theyll probably be shunted from place to place whilst people ignore them or snatch papers out of theirs hands and no doubt being bossed around by some spotty little oik team leader

ive done handing out leaflets in the street, hellish work

 

[Ms T]

Paid-for newspapers have been dying a slow death for a while because people prefer to get their news free on the internet. The ES sellers should have seen this coming - they've been standing next to people handing out free papers for long enough - how on earth did they expect the ES to keep going? Masses of people in journalism and publishing have had to find something else to do. That's just the way it is. The only way we can stop it is if we all pull together, value the media more highly and pay for it like we used to.

^^ This. It's a bit scary, really, that people are increasingly unwilling to pay for journalism, or content in general. A lot of media types are going to be watching the Standard experiment closely to see what happens.

 

[Upchuck]

I just saw a guy in an orange parka with 'Evening Standard' emblazoned across the back handing out the papers at the tube. Seems they have well and truly gone the free paper route.

 

[tarannau]

What did you expect for christ's sake -them to change the colours and not give the paper out?!?

It's now a freesheet after all.

 

[Upchuck]

I just didn't expect people in the streets a la the Lite. I understand now, I get it.

 

[girasol]

I picked one up yesterday, first and last time, will stick to reading books I think.

 

[JFirewall]

My great-uncle used to sell the Standard.

Mainly retired old-boys innit?

People still get paid to sell it, and the circulation won't be dropping will it?

Surely the job losses are far fewer than the proportion we've experienced as a result of the recession in general.

 

[ericjarvis]

I tried asking, but the guys giving them away outside Brixton station wouldn't give me 50 quid to take one.

 

[Wonky]

I don't understand what the problem is...the modern world has been using these for decades...

 

[DJWrongspeed]

Crucifixion

Brixton poet S P Howarth was in it yesterday, god, i know he likes to shout, now he's screamin as well

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Is it worth speculating whatever happened to the thousands once employed in scraping and carting all the horse shit off Londons streets?

Selling the standard was surely on a par

surely the two are complete opposites - removing shit seems a far more socially useful function than circulating it...