Guardian signs controversial deal to sell The Observer to Tortoise Media
Guardian signs controversial deal to sell The Observer to Tortoise Media
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Guardian signs controversial deal to sell The Observer to Tortoise Media
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So what’s controversial about it? This Sky News / Comcast rag mentions it’s “enormously” controversial without stating the controversies.
After reading about Tortoise media I’m kinda liking the slow news movement.
Article says "scores" of journalists went on strike, I guess that's what they mean by that. "Scores" is a bit of a loaded term imo, it sounds like loads but a score is only 20
So doesn’t “loads of scores” mean multiples of 20?
I take it you're not from the UK?
I lived in the UK for a year, but no longer.
These things can be confusing to understand and seems like a reasonable question, I don't pretend to fully understand everyone's complaints.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortoise_Media
Doing basic research shows it as "a British news website", founded by a British journalist (who Murdoch didn't like so already sounds like a nice guy) and former head of the BBC, and an American who spent 4 years here as Ambassador under Obama.
Not exactly sounding like Bezos or Murdoch levels of evil here.
The main issue is that its all been dealt with in secret, consultations with Observer employees such as the editor haven't taken place so its just leaving a sour taste, along with a lot of questions as to how they reached contradictory positions on why they should sell the paper.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/dec/09/key-questions-about-the-sale-of-the-observer-that-remain-unanswered