… The Times preparing to take over as the mouthpiece of the Tory Party.
They’ll be bought up by someone. The power to tell a sizeable portion of both the population and (more importantly) the political class what they ought to think is valuable on its own, even if the business itself loses money.
It’ll be a simple calculation, will supplementing this business to the tune of £n million allow me the political influence to stop £n+1 million of regulations harmful to my industrial interests?
How does a business claiming to be making 30M profit still owe 60M and has done for years by the sound of it?
If I’ve got a debt and have some money left over, I use it to pay off the debt. Unless it is interest free.
Big business is bizarre.
They lost a lot of advertising money from China and Russia in recent years, however the money they tried to make from bigging up Saudi Arabia and Qatar has not been enough to offset that loss. Advertising has also killed them and they have struggled to get viewers to their website for years now, which is not surprising when you consider their demographic. It’s a warning to other newspapers that times really are changing.
Putin stop funding it? Honestly losing one of the UKs 2 major far right newspapers is brilliant
this by itself is great news, however, the extreme propaganda/misinformation machine is still flush with money and will buy this up at a great price, and nothing will have changed.
Good, maybe someone who isn’t brain dead can run the paper now
I mean, good? But I doubt that will stop it. It’s goal isn’t to make money directly but to push an agenda. It’s a shame because it used to be the most tolerable paper that leans politically opposite to me, 10 years ago.
Damn. Maybe they should have begged their readers for money like The Guardian has done this last 5 years.
Oh dear.
Hoping that neither Desmond or Murdoch will buy it.
For the price of a coffee, you could help the Telegraph stay afloat!
Go buy that coffee (preferably from a small, local business).
250k a year for BJ’s ten minute a week column might disappear then – just as well that it’s chicken feed.
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… The Times preparing to take over as the mouthpiece of the Tory Party.
They’ll be bought up by someone. The power to tell a sizeable portion of both the population and (more importantly) the political class what they ought to think is valuable on its own, even if the business itself loses money.
It’ll be a simple calculation, will supplementing this business to the tune of £n million allow me the political influence to stop £n+1 million of regulations harmful to my industrial interests?
How does a business claiming to be making 30M profit still owe 60M and has done for years by the sound of it?
If I’ve got a debt and have some money left over, I use it to pay off the debt. Unless it is interest free.
Big business is bizarre.
They lost a lot of advertising money from China and Russia in recent years, however the money they tried to make from bigging up Saudi Arabia and Qatar has not been enough to offset that loss. Advertising has also killed them and they have struggled to get viewers to their website for years now, which is not surprising when you consider their demographic. It’s a warning to other newspapers that times really are changing.
Putin stop funding it? Honestly losing one of the UKs 2 major far right newspapers is brilliant
this by itself is great news, however, the extreme propaganda/misinformation machine is still flush with money and will buy this up at a great price, and nothing will have changed.
Good, maybe someone who isn’t brain dead can run the paper now
I mean, good? But I doubt that will stop it. It’s goal isn’t to make money directly but to push an agenda. It’s a shame because it used to be the most tolerable paper that leans politically opposite to me, 10 years ago.
Damn. Maybe they should have begged their readers for money like The Guardian has done this last 5 years.
Oh dear.
Hoping that neither Desmond or Murdoch will buy it.
For the price of a coffee, you could help the Telegraph stay afloat!
Go buy that coffee (preferably from a small, local business).
250k a year for BJ’s ten minute a week column might disappear then – just as well that it’s chicken feed.