Re: Nailed it there Rask. The Fraud's position exactly. NM Archived Message
Posted by scrabb on February 6, 2019, 4:41 pm, in reply to "Re: Nailed it there Rask. The Fraud's position exactly. NM"
No, it's the money. The Fraud had been losing millions year on year with no end in sight, the print circulation was dying off, the business model was clearly unsustainable and there was real danger of the whole Scott group collapsing. The only thing that kept them afloat was selling the Motor Trader mag and website for millions, but that was a short term solution. At some point during the latter part of Rusbridger's term of office it was decided to go for the US digital market (clicks = ad revenue) and that meant they had to get into bed with the neocons because a genuinely left-wing progressive news outlet would have gone down like a lead balloon over there. So the dire need of money drove them to radically alter their political stance, which is possibly one reason Rusbridger went and Viner arrived. No scenario other than the financial one makes any sense.
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