Murdoch Plans 7 Day Times
The editor of The Times, James Harding, resigned after becoming aware that he no longer enjoyed the confidence of Rupert Murdoch. John Witherow, the long-serving editor of The Sunday Times, is the front-runner to be appointed editor of The Times. News Corporation is reported to have taken legal advice on whether it could merge the two newspapers into a more economic seven-day operation. During the Harding era broadsheet newspaper circulations have collapsed:
When he bought the paper in 1981 Rupert Murdoch gave an undertaking “to preserve the separate identities of The Times and The Sunday Times.” Given that The Times is losing nearly a million pounds a week that is an undertaking that is no longer viable in the digital age. In the circumstances the government is unlikely to stand in the way of a rationalisation of the papers into a 7-day operation, like its tabloid sister The Sun…
The Times has been squeezing out the STimes for weeks – online if you refresh on a Sunday you get linked to the STimes once = then it sends you to the Times who have updated stories.
The STimes website is gimmicky and awful to navigate – I welcome this development though sorry to see the chap leave.
Times move on .
Get a life and start reading the Huffington Post;
I only go there for the big boobies and crotch shots.
You can get those by watching Eric Pickles as Fat Bastard in Austin Powers.
I’ll leave the HuffPo to the sheep among us. It’s perfect for them.
Owen Jones = Kim Jong-Un
The people must undestand that the State cannot be trusted becuase the state has the mindset of Owen Jones
Anything is better than reading Rupert.
You have obviously not read Osborne minor’s homework.
Rupert should be told to sell off the Times Group. No one person should be allowed to control more than 25% of the media. Issue is democracy and one person controlling too much of the media is not good for democracy.
Blair or Brown only went cap in hand to Rupert they didn’t behave like this with other media owners.
BBC and BskyB need more competition, more plays should be allowed to enter the market. BBC should be allowed to advertise and licence fee should be eliminated.
I wouldn’t be too concerned. Democracy has lead us to the EU and who voted for Rompuy, Ashton, Barroso or the EU?
Dopey Dave should sell off all the BBC and put it out to private competition. Then we might start getting some real news for a change.
They could get rid of Radio 1 as a stand alone station, so the DJs who think they are worth £xxx,000 pa will find out how much they really are appreciated
wisdom is what matters.
you could be diverse and dumb.
if freedom matters than we need the truth,
Quite. More or less the point I was making.
I phoned up 999 earlier today i was crying down the phone and said “please please can you send someone around to me as Jimmy Savile has had his hand on my willy and stuck a finger up my bum”
The police operator said “That’s ridiculous don’t be so stupid, stop telling such outrageous lies and wasting police time”
I said “well that’s exactly what you said to me when i called 25 years ago you useless wankers”
There are members of this government who will have known about, and even colluded in the murder of Mr Finucane in 1989.
And will Thatcher be brought to account?
More utter bollocks from the looney left. The judge-led inquiry made it absolutely clear that the plot did not extend to even the lowest level of government. Labour fucked the economy twice, in 1976 and in 2008. Will Wilson and Brown be brought to account?
It’s Facher’s fault that it is so cold now.
That’s global warming for you, see?
Who gives a shit about a dead IRA rat? I don’t.
How about Tony Blair’s dossier of death?
Let us just sort out the Finucane dossier first shall we and then we can move onto Mr Blair.
Is there still a D Notice on the Operation Ore files?
Our Tone’s biggest coverup…
JT no idea, but what has been put on can be taken off
mi5….
mi5 + wars + d.notice….
what next?
.
someone is getting more and more desperate.
to be alert and alive switch the tele off.
Newspapers are going the same way as all those coal mines.
And the same way as white Londoners.
I am astonished that as many as 3.02% of Merseysiders are non-white. Do immigrants do no research at all before arriving?
Good at figures I see. But then, you can count up to 90,000.
Why does your percentage keep changing? Lots of emigration from there is there?
Chucky Cuddle, maybe London is relocating all their non oligarch friends (those without lots of money) to other parts of the country, thus reducing the proportion natives to non natives.
I replied “blah, blah” to one of my partner’s texts one day and was told bed rations would be severely limited if that’s what I thought of her sweet words. “No hun”, I pleaded, “You ain’t down wiv da yoof, babes. Dat mean ‘Big Love and Hugs’. Bin cool since.
fro
Ravi Shankar has died….. But his name lives on.. As rhyming slang.
LOL
Ravish Ankar? Did he know Jimmy perchance in his younger days?
I’ve already read the DM, Telegraph (ex-Torygraph) and HuffPo this morning on-line. Why go out into the cold and buy The Times like I always used to till earlier on this year. In any case I don’t have to buy my fags till later.
The latest technological advance from Merseyside – stealing bandwidth from Manchester?
Margaret Hodge MP – Contrary to our report “Hodge faces challenge over family firm’s taxes” (Nov 20), Stemcor, in which Ms Hodge has a small shareholding, has not abused transfer pricing to avoid tax. We accept that there is no inconsistency or hypocrisy in Ms Hodge criticising other companies for tax avoidance and apologise to her for any contrary impression.
Losing a million a week. Good business practice this paywall thingy.
I have arranged for Murdoch to visit Cameron junior and Osborne minor. If he can teach them to lose only a million a week that will be a massive improvement.
what does it matter.
somehow the elite remains the elite.
what,s their s…e…c….r…t,
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ancient wisdom?
M o n e y. S i m p l e…
The Times
“Website of the year”
I luv it…
Guido
You know about these things…
When all these rags become solely online operations
How many hacks do they need to retain?
Will the number of hacks be cut in half or more?
It seems there will be a lot of bars and restaurants running out of expense account clients…
They will all become “private investigators”
I am thinking of enrolling at my local university to become a typeface compositor .
In total the degree will cost me £156,000 over four years but the curriculum looks very interesting and the Admissions Tutor tells me I will be increasing my lifetime earnings by 997%.
as the world becomes secret
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more and more investigation is gonna be required, just to stand still.
be alert.
PIs have to be licenced don’t they, with their record and reputations it would be a very brave official who grants them a licence
Just cut the hacks in half. We need something to chuck on the fire in this cold.
Today I will be an absent dolly trolley
You dolly trolley is over there ====> parked next to your rocking horse (which needs a bit of a clean up too).
The Times and the Guardian still pay crazy wages to hundreds of staff yet lose millions. What I find amusing is both these lefty rags try to lecture the Government on how to stop wasting money or how to get the economy running again.
Yet neither can balance their own books without a sugar daddy bailing them out.
I will pay all these hacks until I can get my own back on the Coalition for having hammered me publicly…
And on the BBC……Just waiot to see all the vile I will produce on these kiddy fiddlers
Then they will all be on the dole
I hate the English
Go for it Rupe, we’ve already got the popcorn in.
secrets are forever.
just as well neither murdoch or maxonthecliff are privy counsellors.
It’s Councillors, dimbo, ie members of the Privy Council.
Fairly sure ‘counsellors’ is correct. Their job is to give private, confidential advice. To counsel on high matter of State to the Crown.
BBC – Democracy Live – Privy Councillors
Privy Council members are called Privy Councillors. Membership includes all members of the cabinet past and present, the Speaker, the leaders of all major political parties.
news.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/hi/guides/newsid_82000/… – Cached
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If you say so. I suspect that both are used for the reasons stated.
I have had a brilliant businesss chool idea
Why does Fox News not take out permanent ads in the Times to save the title…
Ru-pee doesn’t cross advertise his various activities, his senior men/women said they don’t
Sounds like a good idea. Are they going to get rid of the paywall as well? Whose bright idea was that anyway?
“Bieber castration murder plot foiled”
Oh dear…
Am I next on the list?
I though all the teenies loved me…
I love you Adolphe..
Who foiled this plot, and when will they be suitably punished?
“The Times they are a changing”
It’ll turn into the News of the World just like magic !
A good idea, Son.
Top tip: surprise guests wiping their feet by placing bubble wrap under your front door mat.
73 so as Ed said to his brother, close but no banana
Rupert’s three point plan…
1) Consolidate
2) Liquidate
3) Evacuate
So simple, even an Aussie could do it.
He and his family have already evacuated
As you say, he now needs to consolidate and sell out to a Russian oligarch
Simples as you say (as long as I take 10% on the way)
Shhhhhh it’s tiny tiny Margaret Hodge.
merge the times with the sun – no-one would feel a thing
That seems an unnatural suggestion…
A touch of incest and mixing of genders I would say
Is it Lord Mandelson’s brilliant idea?
Perhaps it is a sign of the Times…
Oh dear…
Hello Guido
Thanks for the coverage
Would you like me to create another scaandale to double your clickies?
Tell me your address and I will …tou know whattie…
There is a picture in the Daily Telegraph this morning of David Cameron outside Downing Street with what appears to be a light bulb above his head .
I may be dreaming but i have a clear recollection of getting out of bed this morning.
He was obviously out badget spotting last night…
Need a bit of light for these things you know…
” Badget spotting ” ?
That sounds fun .
Good monrnng Gwido
Traffic slow this morning?
Please give us some Totty to enliven our dreary day
There must be some wife swapping or generalised buggery going on in these dark Times
And whatever happened to that outbreak of Parliamentary venereal disease
Did it just die an unnatuiral death like Parliament itself?
I suggest some pics of the Eagles sisters. Just bumped into them at Widdis Wonderful Fashions buying a days supply of heavy duty razor blades.
Merging The Times with The Sun would create an interesting read and might tap a different market.
That would definitely tap someone I think.
Not up here it wouldn’t! Nobody would buy anything associated with that rag.
DON’T BUY THE SUN!
Does the Daily Mail make money? Seems that it’s the paper everyone loves to hate
Don’t know but the Tehran Times makes a prophet.
Today i have given the go ahead for fracking gas extraction
we can supply 25% of UK gas needs
what i haven’t taken into account is that this gas is methane gas which is totally different to natural gas
back in the 60′s we converted every home in Britain to natural gas , now we will have to convert them all back again
but never mind at least i have my my friends Rupert and Cecil ‘s wedding to go to
i think i’ll share a room with William to err keep the cost’s down
Not my Wills please
He’s on paternity leave
You stupid plank. Natural gas is methane gas
so is cow fart
Try this simple experiment , Stick your fuckin big head in the oven , turn on your natural gas , after you have been in there for several hours go and stick in in one run on methane you will be dead in minutes ! (hopefully)
Look, when you are wrong it is best to stop digging.
You are making the understandable mistake of confusing methane gas (natural gas) which is also found in coal mines with coal gas also known as town gas which is a distillate from the dialing process.
Before we went to natural gas (methane gas) which is odourless and non toxic we used town gas which is toxic and stinks to high heaven.
The problem with Methane is that it was difficult to detect until it exploded, hence the canary in a cage down a mine.
So please just learn and accept you are wrong. Natural gas is another name for methane, full stop.
.. which explains why they had to stick that stinky stuff in it before it left the works – so you would know you have left the gas tap on before you blow the entire neighbourhood up.
A couple of years ago gas leaks were suddenly being reported all over East Suffolk. Much panic until it was found that some twat had accidentally dropped a tank of the smelly additive at Felixstowe docks.
Err… natural gas is mostly methane Should have paid attention at skooll!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please tell us what fkin planet you have been living on, while your at readjusting can you check what “natural gas” consists of, another lefty plank thinking hard, thought it was TwAT but he shines a bit brighter than Gayvid.
Not like you to defend Murdoch
Who? What? Eh?
Who does Lupert think he’s going to scare by waving his fist at them?
Now if it had been Wen Di’s left hook that was being threatened…………………
Haven’t read the ST since the late seventies. Do you still need a wheel barrow to carry it back from the paper van?
I stopped reading the ST about 1990. It reduced my paper boy’s load by 50%
So KP didn’t score a ton then ?
Oh nuts….
I don’t buy newspapers, the papers always push the same rubbish as the tv channels, the rubbish changes as their masters change the views on what has been ordered by LibLbCon and the EU, the days of finding out who is sucking whose toe, has long gone, as they can’t offend anyone now, in case they accidently tell the truth
So you prefer the BBC? – the official PR organ of the left!
Rupert owns both papers and can do what he wants with them. Quite right that he should!
The then Identity of the Sunday Times has long since disappeared … ditto with the Times.