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I feel sympathy with the Guardian journalists likely to lose their jobs, because it will almost certainly be the better ones. The overpaid, past-their-sell-by-date columnists will be the penultimate area where savings are sought, just before executive salaries.
But the Guardian as an institution can't reasonably expect donations from people like me after the way it conducted itself towards the Labour left over the past five years, or when it continues to be controlled by a trust which is totally unaccountable to its readers.
Once more on the Guardian job losses:
- it's not something to gloat over
- it won't make the Guardian a better paper
- it's more likely good journalists, not the columnists you hate, will get made redundant.
But I won't donate until there's a big change of direction.
- it's not something to gloat over
- it won't make the Guardian a better paper
- it's more likely good journalists, not the columnists you hate, will get made redundant.
But I won't donate until there's a big change of direction.
Especially when there's more reliably socialist media to make a donation to. With more resources, they could - and hopefully will - expand into doing investigative journalism, on-the-ground reports, exposures. Or even just report the same events but from trustworthy perspectives.
For example: yes it would be quite good to know what's going on at the top of the labour movement's institutions, without having to work out which bits of Sunday Times or Observer articles can be credited with any truth.
See this thread too: https://twitter.com/Tom_Gann/status/1283395428596297728
