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Guardian and Observer journalists to strike over sale of the Observer (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 3 months ago by frankPodmore@slrpnk.net to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

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More info on the dodginess of the sale.

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[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 9 points 3 months ago

How could Anna Isaac be such a scab /s.

In response to the decision to strike, Tortoise issued a statement saying that it was saving the Observer from its decline into “irrelevance”.

I'm not the biggest fan of the Observer (it's where the TERFs are), but this is quite the statement to make about an asset you want to buy. It's also obviously false, the thing James Harding is after here is the prestige of an established and (somewhat) trusted name.