Journalists strike over Guardian's controversial deal to sell The Observer to Tortoise Media | LBC

[@kevingriffiths6113]

I am seriously baffled by this news, and also baffled by UK media completely ignoring it.

[@d1sciple83]

I hadn't seen this news until this clip and I have to say, this is shameful. To sell in this way and at these terms with a closed process to a single bidder is utterly disgraceful. Hopefully the Guardian journalists standing up against this horrendous outcome are successful in changing the outcome.

[@alistaircrooks2472]

A legend in her own lifetime following her TED talk on the Brexit referendum

[@aleph8888]

Thrown out by the courts in the Wilson case because there’s no evidence any of the allegations had a material effect on (changed) the result.

[@taxpayer1040]

A late and very dear friend wrote for the Observer but it has long ceased being the authority it once was. With K. Viner (Mrs. A. Chiles) at the helm it has been more concerned with the sentiments of the Board of Deputies than the realities

[@ikampbush1722]

I mean be disturbed, be cross. But since when do employees have a say if an owner decides dispose of an asset in any way they see fit?

[@BoredomIncarnate1]

Change has to start somewhere, businesses should be more beholden to their employees than their owners.

[@ikampbush1722]

Why? It’s not indentured service. Don’t like the new owners, just go work somewhere else.

[@janeknight3597]

I am very unlikely to renew my subscription to the Guardian.

[@chatham43]

@Jane So you're the one!

[@WestermanT.]

It’s weird you think you cancelling your subscription is important enough to comment on here. I don’t think anyone has ever cared what you think and I doubt they ever will. Hope that helps

[@RichardGallagherthesecond]

​@@chatham43And you're the Daily Mail/Sun subscriber. 🤭😂

[@RichardGallagherthesecond]

​@@WestermanT. Oh, someone cares what op thinks. That's you, by replying. 🤭😂😂

[@WestermanT.]

@RichardGallagherthesecond by that definition you care what I think, thanks for caring it’s much appreciated.

[@ImagineMedia888]

No big surprise. The Guardian sold out years ago.

[@zetectic7968]

Troll

It has to a certain extent sold out. It is not what it used to be politically, but that is my perception. You try and find a copy in Hull. It is possible if you go to Waitrose. Arguably it is speaking for London/ Brighton etc readers. But positively it still allows the poor in this country to read the news without a firewall, but every time I go there I am to a certain extent harassed to pay. They need the money, but those who cannot afford its relatively high price literally cannot afford to buy it on a daily basis.

[@BubbleGendut]

Didn’t realise the guardian had 5 million of subscribers money to throw away. Will reconsider my subscription

[@proevilz]

The donations to The Guardian were mentioned here. For a few weeks, I had been messaging The Guardian to explain their donation panels on their articles. And in my opinion, I feel as though they're emotionally manipulating the public into donating, by making statements such as 'teams of lawyers' from the 'rich and powerful' are lobbying to stop stories coming out. But if you question who exactly these alleged people are, they'll refuse to tell you, outright. So much to the point that, communication stops being casual, to stone cold concise refusals, or 'I am not permitted to comment further', or words to that effect.

[@AndyDrudy]

Why? The Guardian makes a loss. In 2023 - £21 million. Anyone dumb enough to take it on is going to get what they deserve.

[@stephenbrown4211]

Like anyone who reads it deserve what they get.,

[@thestevenjaywaymusic7775]

This is sad. But, it is the modern world. Total control! This is not complicated, it is all about power and manipulation!

[@SmokeroftheFuture-y5c]

@thestevenjaywaymusic7775 From what particular group of people in the world may I ask.... it's not complicated.

[@nebube9]

Boykott.

[@lesleywatson4494]

Not sure where I will get my news from now but I will be stopping my support to the Guardian. This was not what I signed up for.

[@Worldeaterosg]

Im surprised the guardian is still going at all, the gall of news papers to ask for a subscription😂😂

[@riccardo-964]

I am not sure why but I enjoy listening to this lady.

[@andybellklas1678]

Not so lefty all about the worker after all.

[@kevinhunter3473]

Bit like Reform

[@stephenkent1102]

Why? The words 'money' or 'peerage' spring to mind.

[@purpleowl2075]

'We don't know who the other investors are' - that's a lie, the other investors were listed in the Media Gazette

[@zetectic7968]

Name them!

[@PleiadesImprezaT2000AWD-l4l]

So what will happen is the Observer will change slowly over time into another right wing mouthpiece. Just as happened with the Express.

[@zetectic7968]

The Daily Excess has been right-wing for over 50 years!

[@gabiotta]

The Guardian gave up its credibility years ago. Traditional media is dead. Sadly.

[@purpleowl2075]

Where was Carol's heroism and outspokenness when the Nick Cohen scandal occurred? She stood firmly by him, at the expense of 7 women who were harassed by him

[@nickm2483]

She’s got lots of books

[@graemebuchan8142]

Has never read a book... ironic!!

[@BrendaSimmons-v9p]

Yes, lots and lots of them! 😂😂😂

[@clario2178]

All the rich virtue signallers who read it can pay for it .

[@dougallwinship]

what practical steps we can take to assist?

[@thomaseaves7567]

Get together with a few million like minded people and put in a counter bid.

[@AndyDrudy]

Well, The Guardian is projected to lose £39 million this year so there's a clue.

[@brianquigley-je8kx]

my heart bleeds

[@brianquigley-je8kx]

who knew 'the guardian' was on strike ? hope it stays on strike. nobody will notice.

[@JohnHaveaguessGoogle]

So they've gone on strike but so few people care that they've gone on strike they still don't get the hint...they've been irrelevant for years already.

[@Themanwithnoname386]

Brilliant 😊

[@peter-hy3rp]

For a long time now The Guardian has put a lot more focus on its Australian and American content, than it has on UK news and opinion. A strategic decision to move away from UK audiences would make selling an ostensibly British title, a coherent decision. I can't think if any other reason.

[@theartyone]

I can't find that Podcast anywhere... can anyone point me in the right direction?

[@batbrewer3756]

All hail the best journalist (CC), and for that matter the best political interviewer (JOB), currently working in the UK. Gonna be reviewing my Guardian subscription when the dust has settled. Some nefarious BS going on here, demanding much more explanation and transparency.

[@RichardStephens-bt6or]

4 days pay = substantial loss does anyone remember the Miners strike?

[@voodoochile333]

What are the BBC going to do now?

[@RobertThomson-y4m]

Indeed. Where will they get their news from?

[@kularamardip]

Carole is a hero and a true patriot.

[@adrianlloyd6403]

100 celebrities and James O'Brien signing a petition........the uselessness of celebrity endorsements was well illustrated with Harris and her presidential campaign.People generally don't care what celebrities think on matters like that.

[@wilko-e4j]

Sums it up. A 100 celebrities have signed a letter. No one cares 😂

[@therealrobertbirchall]

😂

[@jcmc9378]

The world will end not with a bang, but a whimper

[@RD210]

Main stream journalism is dead

[@simongreaves9465]

Sounds like the Guardian is finally admitting reality and preparing itself for closure

[@theainanimate1661]

If the Guardian and Observer's staff wanted us to care they should've have spent the last few years pushing more against the transphobic opinion pieces regularly being pushed in both

[@voodoochile333]

Probably because facts Trump your feelings.

[@will121]

The Guardian is the home of Trans. Perhaps you missed it, Female Journalist left as they were unable to discuss the subject.

[@peterjohnson1091]

You mean incite hate​@@will121

[@yetidodger6650]

@@voodoochile333 yeah like you lot appreciate facts ffs.

[@Gordon.Pinkerton]

​@will121 what is the female journalists name?

[@danmayberry1185]

Guardian online (Canada) is the most aggressive canvasser for donations and subscription fees. It must haemorrhage money in order for it not to be viable.

[@Yossarian_Lives73]

Maybe Guardian / Observers stance against Jeremy Corbyn was a pyrrhic victory. The UK we now all inhabit was built in part by the Guardian / Observer well done.

[@TheDogsbollocks925]

The BBC are the only subscribers lol.

[@Sairfecht]

They best get posting in the Bluesky bubble.

[@grogery1570]

This sounds a lot like a novel written about a former baseball player buying the New York Yankee's. When the player buys the team the sale is financed by the sellers who want a profitable entity off their books to avoid a tax liability. The sale isn't a true sale but more of a lease, after a year the team is returned to it's original owners and the player is given any change in value minus interest plus profits made by the team. I suspect that the Observer will be returned to the people who organized the sale on a similar basis in a years time. In other words management steals an asset from owners and avoids tax on the sale.

[@Gordon.Pinkerton]

What's this novel called?

[@julian987r4]

“Our beloved title” 😂

[@darkedge4011]

I like the Guardian it truly is independent but I could imagine managing their staff would be somewhat a nightmare some of the most entitled, virtue signalling people on the planet 😂

[@eddiecalderone]

@darkedge4011 Truly independent?

[@Skygrey2943]

​@eddiecalderone Maybe not, but it's better than getting the Murdoch or Viscount Rothmere spin on current events.

[@purpleowl2075]

You're not wrong - to add insult to injury, many are deeply amoral, but virtue-signal as 'damage control'

[@SmokeroftheFuture-y5c]

@darkedge4011 Oh dear, The Guardian is the number one publication promoting the New World order agenda coming down from the very top.... just so you know they all do because they're owned by the same small group of media moguls, guess what group that people that is.

[@therealrobertbirchall]

​@@Skygrey2943or the Biased Broadcasting Corporation

[@md0u80a2]

I genuinely don’t get what the story is here. Don’t businesses buy and sell assets all the time.

[@apkk5594]

The Guardian is owned by a non profit trust that exists to maintain the editorial independence of the guardian and observer. The group is one of the few newspapers still owned within the UK.

[@md0u80a2]

@ but they have to exist as a viable not for profit business - surely this Is a business decision is it not?

[@jcmc9378]

A free and independent media is an essential component of a democracy. Without that media there is no democracy

[@stephenbrown4211]

One thing correct. Guardian and Observer (who reads that) journalists haven’t got a clue.

[@TomBartram-b1c]

Someone's willing to PAY to take on a dying brand? Take the money and RUN.

[@Gordon.Pinkerton]

Did you listen to the video? Tortoise Media isn't paying for The Observer. In fact, the trust that runs The Guardian will be giving Tortoise Media £5m to fund investment in The Observer. As for "dying brand", the video also makes it clear that The Observer is the part of the business that turns a profit.

[@drbennyboombatz9195]

"we can see what he did in America and we are vulnerable", I honestly don't know what she's saying here? What laws is she on about that need to be tightened?

[@therealrobertbirchall]

Foreign ownership of our media.

[@davidjamesaustin]

They must be super left wing

[@Nosh_Feratu]

this stinks to high heaven

[@thomaswilson5707]

Oh no.. I wont get to read out of touch woke guardian writers. Thank you for getting celebrity endorsements.. they will definitely impact my thinking .. just like they for Kamala 🤡

[@mr.mayhem7402]

Journalists not to lie until their terms are met.

[@ChrisKeziahHyde]

If the guardian goes out of print where will I get my toilet roll from? 🤣

[@voodoochile333]

Lol

[@valeriemay7391]

Try The Sun or The Daily Mail.

[@bdizzle9586]

Your benefit statement

[@voodoochile333]

@valeriemay7391 what an amazing comeback

[@ChrisKeziahHyde]

@@valeriemay7391 I did but they were a bit hard right for my liking 🤣

[@MatthewHess-b3k]

Journalism is so cooked in the age of AI

[@georgeharrison5362]

O' brainless...my neighbours selling his car...i must force him not to do it cz he cant afford to own it..cz of my antibrexit stance...its all my neighbours fault of course for not having a product that sells...gov should fund it out of tax...increase tax and subsidise it...tax my neighbour till he squels...thatll make him stop selling his car.. Increase his tax!!!!!!!

[@oneoflokis]

"Tortoise Media". 😏

[@VaucluseVanguard]

Hopefully, Elon Musk will buy it.

[@wiseget-f7e]

Labour’s budget for growth continues to bear fruits!😂

[@kevinhunter3473]

Lazy, but you know that

[@karlyoung6289]

There is something rotten in the state of Denmark!

[@alingard1]

Let’s face it the observer isn’t actually a paper I’d really miss…. been decades since was worth reading.

[@wellhungindung]

Has she paid Farage yet?

[@BUFUmic]

Shame, but when you let Jonathan Freedland and Raphael Behr spread misinformation and smear Corbyn then you kind of lost the mantle of free and independent journalism, its people like Owen Jones and Zoe Gardiner I feel sorry for...

[@georgethompson453]

What a load of old codswallop!

[@ianhunter2374]

I had no idea the guardian had any journalists left since they are all activists and probably the reason it's being sold off

[@dog-jk2hn]

The guardian isn't being sold off, and I suspect your definition of an activit journalist is anyone contradicting any of the nonsense spoonfed to you by Rupert Murdoch and Christopher Chandler.

[@ianhunter2374]

@dog-jk2hn we will see

[@ianhunter2374]

@jonathanboam5409 the same reason patriots are considered far right

[@gingersteve]

I kneel for no-one...except millionaire "man of the people" Nigel Farage. Nothing you said above made one shred of sense. Sad.

[@chatham43]

@dog Nope. It's a nasty vindictive paper masquerading as a liberal inclusive caring one.

[@EricRiver-m1j]

"Arron Banks initiated a libel action against Cadwalladr on 12 July 2019, which in May 2023 concluded with the Court of Appeal ruling that she had unlawfully published a serious imputation (which she accepted was not true). The judge declared that its continued publication by TED was not subject to a public interest defence and had caused Banks serious harm: the court held her liable for £35,000 in damages and over £1 million in costs." From Wikipedia. Go woke go broke. Which seems to be happening to the Guardian and Observer.

[@goattm2]

Is that why those pathetic films made by whiny right wingers never sell?

[@zetectic7968]

& Banks still has not acknowledge where the money came from. Absence of evidence is not evidence

[@hoggers7572]

Please give a definitive definition of Woke.. guarantee you won't

[@batbrewer3756]

String of now-documented meetings at the Russian Embassy pre-Brexit referendum that they denied at the time --- not AT ALL suspicious!

[@laurencesmith1435]

Guardian journalists to strike - well, there will be absolutely no loss to humanity there.

[@jacko10001-n]

Newpapers are a thing of the past...with computers an i phones...have not bought one since 2016.

[@BigAlCapwn]

"Journalists" LOL

[@michaelhemsley1470]

​​@@jonathanboam5409I think you nailed it!👍😅

[@nickwilson2968]

So the Guardian wants to sell the Observer, the journalists don't like the deal so their going to go on strike😅, bit arrogant of them really, if they don't like it leave

[@FnRenner]

Seems like there is only conservative media left standing in jolly old England. LBC has James O'Brien but also airs Nick Fattie Ferrari and his gas bag views

[@wilko-e4j]

😂😂😋 the LBC is more left

[@michaelsimpson4400]

"Our beloved title" oh JoB, you should try at least an attempt to try and appear impartial as a journalist. It is for the owners of the company to determine what happens to it. The workers of the Guardian and the Observer may not understand capitalism but their pay checks come from companies they are employed by. The owners invest their own money and with the rewards take the risk. I suspect they want to offload one title to focus on the Guardian which is (despite it being less useful than loo roll) a reasonable business strategy.

[@wilko-e4j]

He doesn't know what the word means

[@graemebuchan8142]

😂 this is fantastic news 😂😂😂😂 love y'all ❣️

[@davidatkinson5858]

Isn't the guardian subsidised by the British taxpayer?

[@goattm2]

Got any evidence for that ?

[@CharlieL292]

😂😂 you clueless pr

[@wilko-e4j]

​@@goattm2it's a question, not a statement. Hence the question mark. 😂😂😂

[@goattm2]

@@wilko-e4j So you don't know yourself, so i'll answer for you. No they aren't.

[@Shaggy-839two]

This is what you get for backstabbing Corbyn. Go down. Youre the same as the others.

[@zetectic7968]

Still but hurt that no one accepted that Corbyn was the messiah 🙄

[@Miichael-b1j]

@@zetectic7968 A strange man for sure but with more integrity than the present incumbents .

[@jjNintendoswitchworldreview]

Didnt know people still have books or read them.

[@paulgibbons2320]

Real journalists have ask for refuge in the equidorian embassy. 😂 Ask yourself what the others are doing. 😂

[@johndownes3841]

Why would a Guardian reporter take refuge in an Ecuadorian embassy?

[@paulgibbons2320]

@johndownes3841 if you are investigating real things and real criminal activity. That just happens to you.

[@nomoreheroes93]

Odd business decision but complete nonsense that the journalists purely care about this "for the reader's sake", how naive do they think we are - there's clearly something else at play e.g. salaries, equity, etc

[@davetherave7353]

Maybe write articles people want to read and you wouldn't be sold!

[@dog-jk2hn]

@@davetherave7353 are you dense? The paper makes money.

[@RobertThomson-y4m]

A propaganda sheet akin to Pravda gets sold. Oh, well.

[@zetectic7968]

W⚓

[@RichardGallagherthesecond]

The Guardian, what wokeness it possesses 🤭😂😂

[@VicePointGTAX-wd9iz]

Hopefully they buy it so they can shut it down.

[@Keltik0ne]

Well, given that the majority of the UK Press is owned by an extreme right wing Australian and some is owned by a russian, backed by Poo-Tin and wedged into he House of Lords by Tiny Johnson, handing any part over to another AmeriKKKan billionaire probably won't improve the information level at all.

[@jasonhigson4865]

Oh no! Please say it’s not true! The guardian journalists going on strike what on earth are we going to do? 😅

[@chatham43]

They working classes will never get over it.

[@Miichael-b1j]

@@jonathanboam5409 And he's not even a progressive .

[@beatpeace879]

First 🎉