Would have throught Guido played with fire and gunpowder.
But lets support the Guardian comrades - 80% pay rises all round ! ( Then they'll go out of business even faster ;-) ).
September 14, 2006 at 10:27 AM
Anonymous
said...
In 2005, Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger received an annual salary of £312,000, a 14.7 per cent increase. He also received an annual bonus of £175,000.
that's an impressive amount, particularly for a "leftie" newspaper. wonder what the editors of our other glorious newspapers get paid.
September 14, 2006 at 10:55 AM
Anonymous
said...
Well at least the online writers don't whine the way the bloody paper writers do.
Comrades! CANUCKISTAN STANDS WITH YOU!
September 14, 2006 at 10:55 AM
Anonymous
said...
What would the Guardian's revenue figures be like without all those footling non-job adverts from the public sector?
After the triumph of revealing Unity Trust's innovative investment strategy, Guido make care to turn his mind to this point. How great a cash dependency is required before the Guardian is effectively an off-shoot of the state?
PS: on the main point, I'm with you Comrade Fawkes. I'll look after the sports pages if you like. There shouldn't be anything to do; there's not much cricket on at the moment.
i'm with man in a shed,80% all round.the gaffers can afford it cos money grows on trees!
Scab,Scab,Scab!!!!!!!!!!!
September 14, 2006 at 11:02 AM
Anonymous
said...
Nony 11:01 is obviously having one of "those moments." I prescribe a series of colonics; it's not that this will turn the worm to agreement as much as it will work out all of whatever it wanted to express in the first place.
September 14, 2006 at 11:10 AM
Anonymous
said...
Scab bloggers, lol, what fun!
September 14, 2006 at 11:10 AM
Anonymous
said...
Oh Guido... I for one could wax lyrical about certain exploitative practices over at the G - but I won't; I'm going to stick up for them instead.
Doesn't the online bit actually make a profit? Doesn't GU stand with the BBC as among the finest resources the internet has to offer? Aren't the staff due a bit more money for making it so? And isn't there just a hint of envy about your shit-stirring? I notice there doesn't seem to be much bragging about traffic figures these days, Fawkes.
Support the poor downtrodden staff at GU, comrades!
September 14, 2006 at 11:20 AM
Anonymous
said...
I remember the days when Rusbridger was a lowly Cambridge hack with me and we went on strike for more pay, having to go around pubs with a begging bowl, taking part in a 24 hour picket rota around the brazier during a freezing cold winter. I'm sure he won't be thinking: "those were the good old days!"
I'll write the food page...umm after I've read Jamie Olivio's Knacker Chef epistle...can't be to careful now. My comand of been's and toast has been slipping recently.... What is everyone else going to write about in the new adventurous Gunaird?
Peter Hitchens Guardian online social commentator, has a nice ring to it.
September 14, 2006 at 11:57 AM
Anonymous
said...
I have three minutes on the train (standing) which I will donate to doubling the quality of the sub-editing.
September 14, 2006 at 12:33 PM
Anonymous
said...
William Norton - "How great a cash dependency is required before the Guardian is effectively an off-shoot of the state?" ISTR that the Scott Trots' annual surplus is pretty much exactly the sum spent by HM Govt on job advertising.
All HMG needs to do is establish jobs.gov.uk and the Graun would be screwed. Though they'd probably get Crapita/EDS/whoever to program it and then look where we'd be.
Ali McNab - sure the online bit makes a profit. So when La Toynbee writes another piece of deathless prose that appears both online and in print, who do you think pays her fee? 50/50 split maybe? Er, no.
September 14, 2006 at 12:52 PM
Anonymous
said...
I will make tea...
...as long as I can tip it on Rushbridger's head!
Isn't Ben Hammersley the Grauniad's Interwb, leather-skirted hero?
September 14, 2006 at 12:54 PM
Anonymous
said...
I mostly read the Grauniad for the obitcheries, ticking off my enemies one-by-one.
"Doesn't GU stand with the BBC as among the finest resources the internet has to offer?"
HAHAHA! Funniest thing I've read all day. I hope you were being sarcastic?
September 14, 2006 at 1:02 PM
Anonymous
said...
"Hedgy said... shit I'm a crap typer..."
Then you're certainly in at The Grundgi-one!
September 14, 2006 at 1:15 PM
Anonymous
said...
This cat wouldn'y blog for the guardian for all the cans of whiskas in China. Seeing they lost a whopping hilarious £50 million restores my confidence in the nation. I always wondered who could buy such pap, and it appears very few must do!
what a self sacrificing empathetic offer- you had better start practicing being churchillian now. Get out the cigars and start breakfasting with champagne.
I have no pity for the Grauniad hacks - you'll never meet such a bunch of smug, over-privileged, remote and hypocritical little ponces in your life. They love the peasants, of course, (as long as they're not Jewish or vote Tory) but not enough to take a pay cut and go live with them.
Still, according to some people I spoke to at an LSE conference, the Guardian is in freefall, while the Independent is waiting in the wings...
Guido - you are too kind. They've lost £50m for two consecutive years. To fund their bilge they are utterly dependent on (drum roll) Autotrader - Grauniad Fuel. Also, of course Rusbridger doing fine - he's not just an editor - he's on the Board.
September 14, 2006 at 2:31 PM
Anonymous
said...
Careful what you wish for Guido. We all know Ms Henry would be delighted to get you on board the Comment is Free juggernaut.
September 14, 2006 at 2:50 PM
Anonymous
said...
There's something about strikers I truly truly loathe so I wish you every success with your scabbing.
September 14, 2006 at 5:27 PM
Anonymous
said...
cant put all those people out of a job, that would be wrong. Anyway, the G has some good journos.
September 14, 2006 at 5:31 PM
Anonymous
said...
Rusbriger was supporting one of his daughters (Isabella, wouldn't you know) by giving her a sodding job at the paper.
September 14, 2006 at 5:43 PM
Anonymous
said...
I don't give a flying fuck about these hacks going on strike. I don't read any of the crappy newspapers published in the UK.
My advice to the owners is to do a Murdoch and screw the bastards into the ground where most of them actually belong.
September 14, 2006 at 7:05 PM
Anonymous
said...
"cant put all those people out of a job, that would be wrong."
Why?
September 14, 2006 at 7:41 PM
Anonymous
said...
Guido would appear to be the Guardian's doyen of the bloody blogosphere anyroad; he's mentioned in glowing terms in G2 today. A guest editorship can't be far off.
40 comments:
Guido, you're playing with fire. Those bloggers who'd write the whole thing for nothing would be no good, rotten, barrel-scraping SCABS.
Would have throught Guido played with fire and gunpowder.
But lets support the Guardian comrades - 80% pay rises all round ! ( Then they'll go out of business even faster ;-) ).
In 2005, Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger received an annual salary of £312,000, a 14.7 per cent increase. He also received an annual bonus of £175,000.
source - http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/article/070906/guardian_nuj_pay_offer.
that's an impressive amount, particularly for a "leftie" newspaper. wonder what the editors of our other glorious newspapers get paid.
Well at least the online writers don't whine the way the bloody paper writers do.
Comrades! CANUCKISTAN STANDS WITH YOU!
What would the Guardian's revenue figures be like without all those footling non-job adverts from the public sector?
After the triumph of revealing Unity Trust's innovative investment strategy, Guido make care to turn his mind to this point. How great a cash dependency is required before the Guardian is effectively an off-shoot of the state?
PS: on the main point, I'm with you Comrade Fawkes. I'll look after the sports pages if you like. There shouldn't be anything to do; there's not much cricket on at the moment.
Time to stage a mass walk-in on Comment is Free
(10.55am) Comrades! CANUCKISTAN STANDS WITH YOU!
or is it:
"COMRADES! StirStirStirWreckWreckWreckISTAN stands with YOU"!
wonder whether this norty post from Mr Fawkes is just one of those moments.
i'm with man in a shed,80% all round.the gaffers can afford it cos money grows on trees!
Scab,Scab,Scab!!!!!!!!!!!
Nony 11:01 is obviously having one of "those moments." I prescribe a series of colonics; it's not that this will turn the worm to agreement as much as it will work out all of whatever it wanted to express in the first place.
Scab bloggers, lol, what fun!
Oh Guido... I for one could wax lyrical about certain exploitative practices over at the G - but I won't; I'm going to stick up for them instead.
Doesn't the online bit actually make a profit? Doesn't GU stand with the BBC as among the finest resources the internet has to offer? Aren't the staff due a bit more money for making it so? And isn't there just a hint of envy about your shit-stirring? I notice there doesn't seem to be much bragging about traffic figures these days, Fawkes.
Support the poor downtrodden staff at GU, comrades!
I remember the days when Rusbridger was a lowly Cambridge hack with me and we went on strike for more pay, having to go around pubs with a begging bowl, taking part in a 24 hour picket rota around the brazier during a freezing cold winter. I'm sure he won't be thinking: "those were the good old days!"
Serputitously Conservative Anal Bloggers Society
^^^ Spot the Guardian sub-editor.
Ali,
Have sub-contracted all traffic boasting to the my advertising representatives Messagespace.
But if you really want to know...
Not envious at all, I pity you downtrodden hacks.
Well Rusbridger does have two very expensive daughters to support.
Guido
Poor and downtrodden I'll give you, but I am obviously (painfully so) no hack.
How are those traffic figures, out of interest? I bet your Prescott 'Hot Nights' scoop boosted them no end.
I'll write the food page...umm after I've read Jamie Olivio's Knacker Chef epistle...can't be to careful now. My comand of been's and toast has been slipping recently....
What is everyone else going to write about in the new adventurous Gunaird?
shit I'm a crap typer...
Peter Hitchens
Guardian online social commentator, has a nice ring to it.
I have three minutes on the train (standing) which I will donate to doubling the quality of the sub-editing.
William Norton - "How great a cash dependency is required before the Guardian is effectively an off-shoot of the state?" ISTR that the Scott Trots' annual surplus is pretty much exactly the sum spent by HM Govt on job advertising.
All HMG needs to do is establish jobs.gov.uk and the Graun would be screwed. Though they'd probably get Crapita/EDS/whoever to program it and then look where we'd be.
Ali McNab - sure the online bit makes a profit. So when La Toynbee writes another piece of deathless prose that appears both online and in print, who do you think pays her fee? 50/50 split maybe? Er, no.
I will make tea...
...as long as I can tip it on Rushbridger's head!
Isn't Ben Hammersley the Grauniad's Interwb, leather-skirted hero?
I mostly read the Grauniad for the obitcheries, ticking off my enemies one-by-one.
"Doesn't GU stand with the BBC as among the finest resources the internet has to offer?"
HAHAHA! Funniest thing I've read all day. I hope you were being sarcastic?
"Hedgy said...
shit I'm a crap typer..."
Then you're certainly in at The Grundgi-one!
This cat wouldn'y blog for the guardian for all the cans of whiskas in China. Seeing they lost a whopping hilarious £50 million restores my confidence in the nation. I always wondered who could buy such pap, and it appears very few must do!
Miaowwww
http://www.ghostofhumphrey.blogspot.com
what a self sacrificing empathetic offer- you had better start practicing being churchillian now. Get out the cigars and start breakfasting with champagne.
I had my picture in the Guardian once......ok don't swap me with brown smelly...I just happened to be the only one in a DJ....wish I didnt say that
I have no pity for the Grauniad hacks - you'll never meet such a bunch of smug, over-privileged, remote and hypocritical little ponces in your life. They love the peasants, of course, (as long as they're not Jewish or vote Tory) but not enough to take a pay cut and go live with them.
Still, according to some people I spoke to at an LSE conference, the Guardian is in freefall, while the Independent is waiting in the wings...
Guido - you are too kind. They've lost £50m for two consecutive years. To fund their bilge they are utterly dependent on (drum roll) Autotrader - Grauniad Fuel. Also, of course Rusbridger doing fine - he's not just an editor - he's on the Board.
Careful what you wish for Guido. We all know Ms Henry would be delighted to get you on board the Comment is Free juggernaut.
There's something about strikers I truly truly loathe so I wish you every success with your scabbing.
cant put all those people out of a job, that would be wrong.
Anyway, the G has some good journos.
Rusbriger was supporting one of his daughters (Isabella, wouldn't you know) by giving her a sodding job at the paper.
I don't give a flying fuck about these hacks going on strike. I don't read any of the crappy newspapers published in the UK.
My advice to the owners is to do a Murdoch and screw the bastards into the ground where most of them actually belong.
"cant put all those people out of a job, that would be wrong."
Why?
Guido would appear to be the Guardian's doyen of the bloody blogosphere anyroad; he's mentioned in glowing terms in G2 today. A guest editorship can't be far off.
"Get the Comment is Free bloggers to write the whole thing for nothing. Scab bloggers are the future (and even cheaper)."
u trying to start a fight!
that's close to the bone
11:21am Ellee "I remember the days when Rusbridger was a lowly Cambridge hack with me and we went on strike ..."
Dear Ellee
Surely you are far too young to remember those days when it was bliss for Senor Rushbridger to be alive and to be young was very heaven
Your obedient servant etc
G Eagle
PS 9:07pm Finnieston Crane Esq's Icon
Is there a Secret Code hidden within its contradictions
- it says "Stamp out Fascism"
- but it is using a Nazi Jack-boot
What would Dan Brown make of this ?