Another day, another loss for journalism. No, not another ill-conceived, poorly executed post from Our Man, silly, (well, OK, a bit), Our Man just heard of two former newspaper colleagues have taken redundancy rather than battle on in a downsized, centralised Centre of Excellence. It's the recession and changing world. For sure. But Our Man notices things don't change for the tax-haven-hiding proprietor of the Daily Mail, little Lord Rothermere, whose Northcliffe group can't afford to keep on a handful of sub-editors with any local knowledge. Are you tightening your belt, your nobness? No, you're bloody not: see here from Private Eye (let's hope that institution survives).
Slightly irrelevant pic lifted from here.
2 comments:
All this talk about tax evasion makes me thiunk of the guardians efforts to avoid it.
http://www.order-order.com/2009/03/rewards-for-failure-at-guardian/
http://www.order-order.com/2009/02/tax-justice-protest-against-guardian/
http://www.order-order.com/2009/02/guardians-tax-hypocrisy-is-ridiculous/
Give Rothermere a break
Sorry, it's personal with Rothermere. The Guardian never sacked any of Our Man's mates.
That's not to say they are any better, mind. Come to think of it, isn't the Guardian's editor Rustyburger, or whatever his name is, essentially a toff too?
Don't worry, Our Man doesn't have a holiday villa in Tuscany. Don't like toffs taking advantage, whatever their hue.
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