New Media versus Old Media
The news that the Telegraph lost £10m last year encourages Guido to believe that in the coming years the truth will slowly dawn on loss making media moguls. Comment is just a click away. Good quality comment is free of charge at places like ConservativeHome, PoliticalBetting and UK Polling Report. The value of your paper pundits will therefore decrease to zero. The "we know best" gatekeeper mentality just won't do.
To all those media executives shaking their heads, don't forget that this blog is more profitable than the Telegraph, Independent and Guardian combined. Better value for readers as well...
[See also Henry Blodget's fisk of a speech from AP's Tom Curley.]
To all those media executives shaking their heads, don't forget that this blog is more profitable than the Telegraph, Independent and Guardian combined. Better value for readers as well...
[See also Henry Blodget's fisk of a speech from AP's Tom Curley.]
40 comments:
I have gone off the Telegraph. There is a story on the FRONT PAGE today which begins "Dandruff could become a thing of the past ..." and ends "But it is unlikely to be wiped out ... and sufferers will need to keep treating the condition."
A non-story, by Roger Highfield, Science Editor, no less, which took up 45 seconds of my valuable time.
And as usual, the big picture on the front page features posh, but fully clothed, totty. This is neither one thing nor the other.
I gave up the Telegraph when it started sucking up to that lying turd Brown.
The serialisation of the cowardly fraud's ghost-written book, laughingly on courage, has been the last straw for many more thousands of readers.
Of course it doesn't take a genius to spot that the BBC too will go the same way as dead treee media; their gatekeeping function is already ceasing to serve purpose with the limited service "Listen Again" feature of their web site. Once we are able to directly access the full back catalogue on an ad hoc basis (like tv-links.co.uk - RIP) all we'll need is some dedicated (and free) bloggers to give us a steer and a guide as to what to watch.
More importantly, taking trumpeter's cue I checked the Telegraph online for a glimpse of the fully clothed totty he mentioned, but to no avail - the pic must have been reserved for its loyal paper copy readership, presumably to give them some incentive to buy the stuff.
We may well all be doomed Guido. In fact we only lost £9.8m, it is this attention to little details that makes quality journalism. Must go, need to have a multimedia dump.
Telegraph never the same after Auberon Waugh stopped writing for them. I had that Max Hastings in the back of the cab once.
The way the Telegraph is going the Guardian will soon be sueing under passing off laws.
Should help with the losses though as their declining sales will no doubt be made up for with Gvnt and Al Beeb job ads.
The Telegraph and The Daily Mail seem to see far more in Brown than the rest of us. So I hope both lose more readers and revenue quickly.
I wait to see the day when the Guardian has the front page banner.
TWAS THE GUARDIAN THAT DID IT!
Conservative landslide!
Labour Routed.
Labour have 10 seats in new parliament. Brown loses deposit.
We wish David Cameron god speed and say again. IT WAS THE GUARDIAN THAT DID IT!
There'll always be a place for newspapers. They're the best things for reading on the beach, on the train, in bed, while watching tv, while eating breakfast etc. But I'm glad Andrew Neil's masterplan at the Telegraph hasn't paid off. Much worse is his destruction of Boris's Spectator. If it wasn't for the huge numbers of free subscriptions I think the Spectator circulation would be next to nil. At least with the Telegraph there were alternative papers to read.
For me, the sad thing about the Telegraph running Brown's absurd book on Courage is that I didn't read it and disagree with it - but that I couldn't be bothered to read it at all. What can they be thinking..
Incidentally Guido, have you noticed that many of Brown's moves are straight from the Kennedy playbook. JFK "writes" "Profiles in Courage - Brown "writes" "Courage". The Kennedys never say they are in politics, they say they are in "Public Service". Brown refers to entering "public service".
Do Balls and Miliband think we will be impressed by this anorak stuff? I say - "Sir, you are no Jack Kennedy"!!
Agree with above sentiments. The editor's a Brown arse-licker, and as for the Barclays - aren't they cockney rhyming slang for something?
They need to get rid of that Brown-noser Andrew Porter, and the new editor. They've clearly done a deal with Brown/No 10, as week in, week out there are 'exclusives' from Brown, Balls, Jack Straw.
WTF has happened with The Spectator? - Ever since that other NuLabour luvie Matthew D'Anconna took over its gone down the pan. I dont want to read the latest blatherings of Labour ministers or 70s has-beens like Roy Hattersly
Im on the verge of cancelling my delivery - cant think what to replace it with, possibly the Guardian!
Either the Barclays are a wunch or a hunt?
Haven't bought a daily newspaper for years so don't give a fcuk,the weekly one's we get have 2 pages of local news,then the obits ,and the rest of the paper is pure advertising,comes in the front door and out to the bin,whats getting me today is Ken Clarke he is going to lose the next GE for Cameron,he was on Sky this morning we saying we don't need a referendum the treaty is nothing,so bye bye davy boy no number10 for you .
I've read the Telegraph since I was a kid. Even I've given up on it. If it's not sucking up to Brown, it's Heffer's vitirol. Hopefully this will make the Barclays realise the cock-up they've made...
Is the posh totty referred to the one on the front of the Business section?
If so, from what I read elsewhere in the blogosphere, this is another nail in the DT's coffin. Their story is that said posh totty (model Gisele Bunchen) asked for her fees in euros rather than US dollars.
I now read that this is a made up story that has been denied. Anyone got any more info on this?
If it is so then shame on the DT - sic transit gloria mundi.
Forget the Brown-nosers at the Telegraph. Now they've sacked their political editor Oonagh Blackman, Maguire's takeover is complete with the installation of his mate Bob Roberts as the new political editor.
Oonagh's friend
You are talking out of your hairy arse Guidot. I like your blog but it is the savoury Olives on the side of the news plate which is full of the MSM.
The Daily Telegraph has taken itself up a cul-de-sac with people like Heffer and co who are to the right of the Conservative Party. It has particular demographic problems and needs some editorial courage .
The pressure on the Papers , in general , does not come from the quality of Blogs and other news gathering agencies but from the fact their copy can be stolen and made available free by Pirates .I do not want to see the fine tradition of the English Newspaper swallowed up in an anarchy of half baked tittle tattle feeding off the very beast it effects to despise.
In Islignton the Gazette a mighty organ and old Hodge adversary is on its last legs and many of the older people who love it will not get anything from the click away world of crapola and porn the net mostly contains. You have much the same problem with Music which has , paradoxically put the emphasis back on live performance.
It is here Guidot that I see you are at heart an anarchist and a horrifying dangerous figure intent on the destruction of built up value through society. This is the opposite of a Conservative.
Incidentally I now live in Lewes and happily watched your effigy being burnt last night during the fiery celebrations
I got heartily sick of the poison from heffer. The paper has lost my custom. Perhaps when he is gone a internet press release will be made.
It is a shame.Heffer has become bitter and twisted.The editor seems to dote on Brown.Fish and chip wrapping par excellence now,I fear.
I can't see the newspapers going out of fashion. Some may have lost their way at the moment, but they'll survive.
Some blogs will become main media, I'm sure. But I think as they become more and more popular, many will move over to traditional main media.
The blogosphere is already being scouted by publishers for new writers. Which is a bit rich. Not only do publishers rarely edit today - that's left to the agent - but now they're going to get writers with ready audiences.
Not much left for them to do but collect the money, it seems.
Any paper that pays good money to Alice Thompson for her inane wittering deserves to lose its readers.
The problem for newspapers is that they are just so dull. You know what they are going to say on any given issue. It is a triumph of marketing and ignores th very reason newspapers exist.
I am sure there will always be newspapers just like there will always be typewriters, gas mantles and model T fords.
Newspaper owners are a bit like dinosaurs in that they are too stupid to know when they are dead.
The heyday of the Telegraph was when the late, great Michael Wharton was writing the Peter Simple column.
What he would make of today's Britain God only knows!
for tuscan tony:
A picture which usually includes Andrew Neil.
WOAR - thanks. I will add rather pretentiously that I was as it 'appens invited by Robert onto his yacht in Cannes a few years ago, fine chap, he didn't buy into my proposal to him at the time, which was his loss of course.
A national newspaper is similar to a drowning man asking for a glass of water.
Their downfall is of their own making; they whore with those that seek to restrict fair comment and vision.
They are becoming fat low rent and irrelevant just like any old pro.
My subscription to the online Spectator expired last year, but the twats still let me access all the articles till they revamped the website a few months back. But, yes, it fucking sucked post-Boris. Mark Steyn might be a neo-con loon but at least he was amusing. Better than Murdoch's ghastly sock puppet and Brown arse sniffer Irwin Stelzer.
Desperate Dan said...
At least with the Telegraph there were alternative papers to read.
I bought my last Telegraph yesterday. I don't know of any alternative papers, at least none that do not write about the wonder of second-hand Gordon.
Difficult to give up my daily, but until there is a reputable newspaper with views at least half allied to my views then I will have to suffer withdrawal symptons.
At least I'll be roughly £13 a week better off.
"Sir, you are no Jack Kennedy"!!
Just as well, the Kennedys were a bunch of homicidal maniacs that would happily push the world to nuclear armageddon just to make a point. Still, having your brains blown out all over your wife tends to make people think kindly thoughts about you after you're gone.
Newsviews was a crap idea invented because the papers couldn't afford journalists and get all their stories from Reuters or the local papers. The Guardian has a circulation that would disgrace a local free rag.
Matthew T'andoori has been a disaster for the Spectator. He started off as a brilliant anti-Blair voice in the Sun Telegraph. Blair neutralised him with a few fireside chats.
Now his Missus - Sarah Schaeffer - is an advisor to Milliband having taken the job while somebody was on maternity leave and then refused to leave when the original women came back. Managed to arm wrestle a job share, I hear.
T'andoori doesn't have fire in his belly and the Spectator is being given the full Sarah Sands luxo-bland treatment.
T'andoori recently rambled on in S Telegarph about Brown's deep thinking genius. Like Hurd and Hastings before him, the old women is re-directing his politics. Boot him out.
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You may well be right about the ghastly, nazi-loving, whoremongering, drunk-driving, gang-banging Kennedy dynasty so admired by Brown the Obnoxious but watch what you say about Gerry McCann and Cilla, the MSMs favourite ventriloquist act.
Over at the Sunday McGuire they were marking - or celebrating - the oxymoronic (this means contradictory, Gary) six month "anniversary" of Gerry's ordeal by reporting on the deeply religious Gerry's favourite activity of going to church with the dummy under his arm and the BBC in attendance; this is all about Maaahd-lin and I am a wonderful father, came the familiar Glaswegian android voice, as Gerry did his act for the cameras, and the fearless British press applauded. Gottle a geer, gottle a geer, squeaked Cilla, Gerry's hands up her arse and round her neck. Ten thousand neighbours have come to pray with Gerry and Cilla, thundered Clarence Gatemouth Mitchell of Virgin McCann, in front of an empty church. They have come to pray for war. War with our oldest enemy. War with Portugal. The Portugueezers did it. You can't trust these fucking Dagoes. Moved by the holy ghost, the BBCs Barney Chapattee fell to his knees to give Mr Mitchell a quick but devout blowjob, and the nation, comforted, sighed deeply.
As for the Daily Trannygraph, it needs Lord Neill of Wapping at the helm. Imagine how readers would flock back to the 'paper if the Scotch Scab, O'Neill, could persuade heavyweights like Michael Winner, Peter Stringfellow and some people from EastEnders to share with us their views on economic and foreign policy. Diane Abbott could roll around drunk and talk about her black constituents, none of whom can afford an expensive education for their sons, or thrice annual holidays in the sun but which, due to their generosity, and ours, she can. Dame Michaela could write, simperingly, as she does, that she agrees with almost everything everybody else says about anything. Instead of buxom sixth-formers with double-barrelled names -and only slightly related to Trannygraph employess - celebrating their A levels in gym-slippery all over the front page, Lord McNeill could, instead, show us the scrawny septuagenarian cleavage of his friend Tina Brown, the alluring embonpopint of ageing glamourpuss Eva Bollard and the inviting pouting hairly lips of dag queen Edwin Currie; it would be totty, Jim but nowhere fucking near as we know it.
The British press, you couldn't make it up. Although they do. With every passing day Stanislav is more grateful to Mr Tony Benn for having invented the Internet, back when he was postmaster general - but should have been prime minister, if there was any justice.
Built the Concorde with his own hands, y'know; ministers were like that back then.
Gerry "trust me I'm a Christian" McCann makes me want to bring up my breakfast.
"Just as well, the Kennedys were a bunch of homicidal maniacs that would happily push the world to nuclear armageddon just to make a point"
That must have been why JFK refused to invade Cuba in 1962, when all the Chiefs of Staff were desperate for war. Thirty years later we found out the Russians had tactical nukes on the island, and orders to use them if necessary. What a war mongering bastard that Kennedy was.
Didnt there used to be a paper called the Telegraph? i remember opening a box at work and stuff was wrapped in it.Papers are dead the internet stands above their dead body laughing like a loon.
I have cancelled my sub to the Spectator and now read 'The Week'.
Foolishly I paid for 12 months Telegraphs in advance, so I am locked in until 2008.
The tragedy is, outside the MSM all the intellectual energy is coming from the political right.
By the way, have you ever read a newspaper from the 1850s, 1860s, or 1870s? Columns and columns of actual NEWS telling you about actual STUFF. Makes you realise what we have lost.
"That must have been why JFK refused to invade Cuba in 1962,"
Bay of Pigs and "brinkmanship". Now back to the real world....
Boris Johnson must be quaking in his boots, when literary talent like our 'stanislav' is up for hire !!!
Stanislav not up for hire. Busy with Plumb Cheap 4U. Not fit lick boots of Boring Johnson. Some say Johnson phony stuttering cunt pander to Colonel Blimp nitwit constituency. Not Stanislav. Boring is fine constituency MP, only part-time homme des lettres, only spend five minutes a day write for Telegraph, Spectator, go on TV, fuck cocaine totty in back of Bentley,campaign for(Hell freeze over) Mayor, rest is busy devoted to voters -who pay salary.
God bless, Boris. All row to-gether. Can't have too many Oxbridge Etonians fucking country up arse. Johnson family motto; this gonna hurt me but not as much as is gonna hurt you. Bravo. Bullingdon uber alles. What are they like, these Flashman types ?
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