Why does the Guardian expect its readers to fork out even more?

[Happ Hazzard]

Why of all newspapers does the Guardian expect people to become "Partners" (at £135 a year) or "Patrons" (at £540 a year) in order to prevent the newspaper losing so much money? Why don't they just alter their content in order to become a publication that people are actually willing to buy? Or put their online edition behind a paywall as the Sun and Times have done? For all the sniping they do at the Mail and Murdoch's papers, those papers are not in dire financial straits because they print content that people want to read and are willing to pay to do so. Why can't Alan Rusbridger figure this out?

[Ghozer]

maybe it's against his morals?

 

the Sun and Times don't have the best of reputations tbh!

[Happ Hazzard]

People go on about the right wing controlling the press. But there's left wing papers out there, they just don't sell that well. Who's fault is that? The right wingers? The people buying the papers? Or the people editing and writing the left wing papers? I'd say the latter. There's a very limited segment of people who are willing to pay to read the stuff that Polly Toynbee, Seamus Milne, Laurie Penny write.

[Bonzo77]

People go on about the right wing controlling the press. But there's left wing papers out there, they just don't sell that well. Who's fault is that? The right wingers? The people buying the papers? Or the people editing and writing the left wing papers? I'd say the latter. There's a very limited segment of people who are willing to pay to read the stuff that Polly Toynbee, Seamus Milne, Laurie Penny write.

 

I'd say it's the age of the demographic. Who buys newspapers? Old people.

 

One of the most watched Anchor men on the planet is Cenk Uygur from The Young Turks. I don't think you can get any more left wing.

[SteveJ68]

Does the Sun make a profit? I doubt the 6 billionaires who dominate the UK press don't own newspapers to make money, it makes you wonder why they do it?

[Penistone999]

I wouldnt read that paper if THEY paid me. Its nothing more than a broadsheet version of the Socialist Worker spouting its leftie , apologist ,PC obsessed rubbish.

[Mister M]

I wouldnt read that paper if THEY paid me. Its nothing more than a broadsheet version of the Socialist Worker spouting its leftie , apologist ,PC obsessed rubbish.

 

That you think the Guardian is a broadsheet version of the Socialist Worker says more about your swivel eyed, gob frothing reactionary mindset, than it does about the Guardian.

The Guardian is liberal / social democratic in its politics.

 

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Why of all newspapers does the Guardian expect people to become "Partners" (at £135 a year) or "Patrons" (at £540 a year) in order to prevent the newspaper losing so much money? Why don't they just alter their content in order to become a publication that people are actually willing to buy? Or put their online edition behind a paywall as the Sun and Times have done? For all the sniping they do at the Mail and Murdoch's papers, those papers are not in dire financial straits because they print content that people want to read and are willing to pay to do so. Why can't Alan Rusbridger figure this out?

 

First I've heard about this HH....It's very touching that you are concerned about the fortunes of the Guardian. From your postings, you always struck me as Daily Express sort of person!

[Happ Hazzard]

Does the Sun make a profit? I doubt the 6 billionaires who dominate the UK press don't own newspapers to make money, it makes you wonder why they do it?

Murdoch made his money in newspapers. The Sun still makes a profit. Not sure about the Times. The Mail makes a profit. The Auto Trader (owned by Guardian media Group) makes a profit which subsidises the Guardian.

[tinfoilhat]

Murdoch made his money in newspapers. The Sun still makes a profit. Not sure about the Times. The Mail makes a profit. The Auto Trader (owned by Guardian media Group) makes a profit which subsidises the Guardian.

 

Auto Trader went bust and in online only now isn't it?

[Charlie48]

I wouldnt read that paper if THEY paid me. Its nothing more than a broadsheet version of the Socialist Worker spouting its leftie , apologist ,PC obsessed rubbish.

 

If you wouldn't read it if they paid you, how do you know so much about it to make such a razor sharp analysis?

 

Bet you read it tucked inside your Daily Mail.