Guardian Falls Foul of Scott Trust
Further to the post earlier about the Guardian taking tens of thousands of pounds from local councils in return for editorial guidance over their review of the “Future of Public Services” Guido got thinking. Is this shabby journalism really what was envisaged by the tax-evading CP Scott? The Scott Trust is in place to “secure the financial and editorial independence of the Guardian in perpetuity: as a quality national newspaper without party affiliation; remaining faithful to its liberal tradition; as a profit-seeking enterprise managed in an efficient and cost-effective manner.” All very noble.
Amongst the “essential qualities that Scott believed should form the character of a newspaper” are honesty, fairness and “a sense of duty to the reader and the community”. The Scott Trust’ role is to ensure that these values are upheld throughout Guardian Media Group.
So how does touting out control over a feature to the highest bidder really stack up with this?
Perhaps a complaint to the Scott Trust is in order…
Do people still pay to read the Guardian?
The BBC and other public bodies order vast numbers of The Guardian. This practice will have to stop in the current austere times.
It is worth every penny to be allied with a quality national title that has high-value journalism produced by the likes of myself…
Anyway, at least Guido has stopped putting up that bloody video of me getting slapped-down by Littlejohn…
Put the kettle on sweetie.
This one?
Better to complain to the Charity Commission than to the Scott Trust surely.
Oh, I forgot, the CC is pure card-carrying ZaNuLieBor as well!
The ABC circulation figures shows a readership of 350,000. Take away the free subscriptions at every desk at the BBC, the teachers, social workers, Islamists, tree huggers, subsidy junkies, rich lefties in NW London and people only allowed to use crayons…..then the circulation is pathetic.
Even better….stop all Government and Local Authority advertising and this dreadful rag will die……how about it Eric?
And even Polly Twin Set may have to sell one of her many houses. Or is she just trying to keep us with fellow comrades like Lord Lardy of Two Jags or the Smirking Chancer’s Nine Properties?
Go for it, Guido.
How long is it since The Guardian was a ‘quality national newspaper without party affiliation’? Surely it has been the Labour party house paper for many years now.
Taxes are for the little people…Pah!
Fancy opening an account in my new bank? Super-rich only, of course, no serfs allowed.
Keep working little people, your taxes are needed to fund my special protection squad so I can keep evading justice.
Polly, you are an inspiration. Your radical left progessivity and intellectualism baffle the fat fool Fawkes. Thanks sister!
Could all those who do not appreciate the irony of Guido lecturing the Guardian on journalistic ethics please go an look “hypocrisy” up in the dictionary.
Could you be more specific? Do you support Labour murderers and torturers?
I don’t support any murderers or torturers. That is why I always opposed Sadaam Hussein and all his fascist friends – can you say the same??
Fawkes’ site is ‘tittle tattle, gossip and rumours’, not journalism.
The only thing more boring than the guardian is talking about the guardian
That’s why I read it. What are you doing here?
I don’t think Guido has ever claimed to be a Journalist, or even claimed he had ethics….Much different from the do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do tax cheats and hypocrites at the Guardian. Especially that multi-millionaire ardent Socialist Polly…
Guardian journalists = human waste
stop tinkering with peoples lives
Look, if you mean ‘shit’, write it, not ‘human waste’!
No one here of any merit will query you!
Until the media do there job properly the demise of newspapers will continue
And learn how to spell
Poster or Grauniad?
Hi , My names Tim Lovejoy and i am a BBC legend who reads and agrees with everything Polly writes.
Ps More money for the BBC so they can employ talant like me.
Ker Ching !!!!
I see you’re getting the hang of it now, young man.
I may allow you the use of my catchphrase- for a substantial royalty payment, of course!
Ker-ching!!!!
You should see the poo stripes she leaves in the bed
i reckon a dab of swarfega would help
Pooh poohed.
Are there any hetero’s left in parlaiment?
There are some heteros on the right in Pparliament. Shameful
Is there not a law that prevents politically motivated Marxists infecting, subverting and undermining the trust set up by this well-meaning chap ?
Theft ?
So if I understand correctly, Hague is a homosexual who puts his penis in other mens bottoms and vice-versa? If so, shouldn’t he be a Lib-Dem??
The Guardian long ago stopped even paying lip service to the Scott Trust’s stated aims.
The modern Guardian is a pale shade of the Manchester Guardian as was…
Today’s Grauniad isn’t worth reading except as a precautionary tale of how far a noble ideal may be perverted by those currently holding the reins.
But that is VERY different from mocking the original aims of C P Scott (‘All very noble’ in your special acerbic red italics, Guido). If only Scott’s aims could be adhered to by his heirs and successors we would have a paper well worth reading – just as if the BBC rediscovered Reithian values their news and current affairs output would be worth listening to.
OK, impossible dreams, both of them, given the corruption of public life evident everywhere today. But a man’s reach should exceed his grasp etc.
Stephen Glover got very excited about this email in March.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/opinion/stephen-glover/stephen-glover-cash-for-content-is-the-guardian-as-pure-as-it-claims-to-be-1917716.html
Ace scoop, Guido.