26 December 2009 – 2:20 pm
Given the festive season is now firmly upon us, maybe it’s time for a Xmas teaser.
OK… what have the four following posts got in common?
i) http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=44765&c=1
ii) http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=44792&c=1
iii) http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/scottish-giant-johnston-press-close-to-refinancing-163500m-debt-1776020.html
and
iv) http://rickwaghorn.co.uk/2009/02/23/chapter-11-now-filed-in-the-story-of-fred-the-shred-brian-p-tierney-and-philly-media-kiss-good-bye-to-more-of-our-millions-folks/
And the answer is…?
The Royal Bank of Scotland. Us, in other words.
The poor, down-trodden UK tax-payer who has been left to mop up in the [...]
Having been round one or two of these blocks before, it’s always been interesting to see which of the large provincial newspaper groups would be the first to ‘break ranks…’ and quietly forget the gentlemen’s agreements upon which their industrial fortunes were based…
http://outwithabang.rickwaghorn.co.uk/?p=257
And today, there’s a little sign that Northcliffe/DMGT are starting to get itchy [...]
OutWithABang celebrates its first birthday on Monday; we threw our very first pebble into this deep and dark pond of ours on March 16th, 2008 – two nights after me, Paul and Tim all heard we’d been bombed in the Knight News Challenge. Beaten by some bloke called Berners-Lee.
I mean, for f*ck’s sake, what did [...]
In a way its none of my business; in another way its very much my business. After all tis my Mrs who is staring down the barrel of a redundancy gun at Archant (Norfolk) following last Friday’s announcement of 54 job losses.
There’s also the small matter of my old job on the Evening News’ sports [...]
Clearly it’s none of our business what our local media masters have in store for us. Such high matters of state are not for us to worry about.
We, who were once their audience, remain blind, stupid and dumb to all such goings-on; tis not for us to question when, how and what local news is [...]
I’ve found ourselves a new heroine… worthy of a longer blog tonight, one feels.
For now, however, I’ll just cut and paste off this… http://www.ojr.org/ojr/people/davidwestphal/200902/1660/ and say no more.
And if I could, I’d reach for a chisel and cut her words and thoughts out onto a tablet of stone.
And you know what, I’d put said tablet [...]
1 February 2009 – 4:43 pm
There were a couple of pieces that rolled into one, bigger thought over the weekend; that and a big, warm, over-due welcome for the first honorary bird on our blogroll, Jemima Kiss…
… who banged a couple of large nails on the head on the back of Lord Carter’s first draft of his ‘Digital Britain’ thing [...]
21 November 2008 – 5:56 pm
There were several points that stuck out like sore thumbs with regard to today’s decision by the BBC Trust to formally knock those dastardly local video plans on the head.
Many of which are covered here by the learned Professor…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2008/nov/21/bbc-theregions
And the subsequent comments.
What fascinates me is the role of the Tory party as the great champions [...]
17 November 2008 – 9:56 pm
I’ve no idea if this will ever see the light of day. It is, however, worth a ponder.
http://blogs.pressgazette.co.uk/mediamoney/2008/11/17/guardian-cities-local-sites-for-local-cityfolk/
Worth treating as tiny pebble and throwing into the shrinking pond that is the UK provincial newspaper industry and trying to imagine where the ripples might lead…
Clearly GMG have been happily working that Manchester beat for years. The [...]