"An agreement to sell The Observer to news start-up Tortoise Media prompted a row at an all-staff company meeting hours after the deal was struck. "Bosses were jeered & accused by staff of concocting an 'establishment stitch-up' & 'riding roughshod over our values'" www.thetimes.com/uk/media/art... - ThreadSky

carolecadwalla.bsky.social • 78 days ago

"An agreement to sell The Observer to news start-up Tortoise Media prompted a row at an all-staff company meeting hours after the deal was struck.

"Bosses were jeered & accused by staff of concocting an 'establishment stitch-up' & 'riding roughshod over our values'"
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/media/article/observer-sold-tortoise-media-guardian-7rr68fvfb

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alistairblantyre.bsky.social•78 days ago

🤔

forsardines.bsky.social•78 days ago

What values?

mroakroom.bsky.social•77 days ago

Follow the money

marwoodwithnail.bsky.social•78 days ago

The guardian and observer are bought and paid for media just like the times and sun.

marshacoupe.bsky.social•78 days ago

Claiming not to be owned by the oligarchy, those involved with
#TortoiseMedia are clearly just that.

#ScottTrust and #GuardianMediaGroup are frauds.
They are GIVING £5-million to #TortoiseMedia, for the Observer, and calling it a sale.

#SaveTheObserver

jonwatts.bsky.social•78 days ago

The elites establishment takeover of the British media is almost complete …..

gdphotos.bsky.social•78 days ago

I’m afraid when The Guardian supported Tory Starmer and started on the Trans hatred they showed us who they really are. Don’t understand why you are surprised.

myrtlep.bsky.social•77 days ago

Eh? You obviously don't read the Guardian 🙄

mkbelfast.bsky.social•78 days ago

Trans hatred? Tell that to Suzanne Moore and Hadley Freeman.

gdphotos.bsky.social•77 days ago

Many people did https://www.thepinknews.com/2020/03/06/the-guardian-anti-trans-articles-open-letter-suzanne-moore-transphobia/

magicmonkster.bsky.social•78 days ago

Who the f... are tortoise media.. doesn't sound good, although nice name! Bring about lovely thoughts of a 🐢 in a garden somewhere.. I'm guessing far from the truth 🙉🤬

dustysevens.bsky.social•78 days ago

oh thank gawd for that... the idiot in me always observered despite the oh sonia sodha's written her column again foul trans hatred. even i'm not stupid enough to pay for it

11tulips.bsky.social•78 days ago

Noting this genteel English dig: Laura Davison, the general secretary-elect of the National Union of Journalists, said that the timing of the decision was “particularly shabby”

lilybud.bsky.social•78 days ago

terrible - absolute stitch up

kpnylon.bsky.social•77 days ago

The board and editor have failed, the move to push out Rusbridger from being chair resulted in the demise of The Scott Trust. Modernizing the trust and looking at how liberal media can be funded should be questions considered before any sale. This is a disaster.

nes-tor.bsky.social•78 days ago

It's a good day to cancel the subscription of @theguardian.com

gillo.bsky.social•78 days ago

If they sell the Observer we will be taking a long, hard look at our subscriptions.

stevecrowther.bsky.social•78 days ago

It clearly was and they clearly are.

lila7.bsky.social•77 days ago

😡

albiebougarde.bsky.social•78 days ago

So The Observer has lost its impartiality. Despite all claims James Harding is a Tory with all the pedigree that goes with it.

carolecadwalla.bsky.social•78 days ago

One staff member (ps not me) said:

“You have run roughshod over the Scott Trust values of integrity and honesty. You have not met your responsibilities as leaders of this organisation. It is damaging for The Guardian and you should all be thoroughly ashamed of yourselves.”

danbarker.bsky.social•78 days ago

felida.bsky.social•78 days ago

Carol, what are the valuesof Tortoise? When they started up, I kinda thought they were ok. Are they just in it for profit? Power?

hlongabaum.bsky.social•78 days ago

Sad to say, I just find that deeply ironic and (very) darkly comical. I wish it was true and to the point, but the opposite is the case.

ercolesfondrati.bsky.social•78 days ago

And now why should I believe one word of the Guardian’s never ending solicitation of funds?

march2mediocrity.bsky.social•78 days ago

I think its past time that it be recognized that good journalists, and thus good journalism are not owned by the corporate media. The idea of mainstream media has changed, the centralized corporate owned media needs an evolution (through revolution). People are no longer trusting this model.

wariotifo.bsky.social•78 days ago

anything to say about Nick Cohen if we’re talking about morality and decency re: the Observer?

netherschot.bsky.social•78 days ago

Whataboutery is a logical fallacy closely related to an Ad Hominem. Does that help bring you back to the topic at hand?

wariotifo.bsky.social•78 days ago

Nick Cohen sexually harrassed and groped without consent countless women including multiple journalists and the Observer covered up for him for about 15 years. Stick your logical fallacies up your bollocks, prick

netherschot.bsky.social•78 days ago

So you're attacking Carole over an ex-colleague that may have sexually harassed her? While she's on strike against the company that covered that up?

Maybe try making sense.

wariotifo.bsky.social•78 days ago

every Observer journalist stayed quiet over it (for 15 YEARS and at least 3 sham enquiries). Carole was calling him 'great' as recently as 2022. Disgusting. Like championing Harvey Weinstein because you enjoyed a Miramax film https://x.com/search?q=from%3Acarolecadwalla%20nickcohen4&src=typed_query&f=live

stephenstroud.bsky.social•77 days ago

Sorry about this and to have missed you at the gathering yesterday evening.

kcarpdiem.bsky.social•78 days ago

👀

stevebasnett.bsky.social•78 days ago

Those receiving updates from the Save The Observer online petition have been sent this alert (see image).

Deeply saddened, it challenges articles run in the Guardian in the last couple of days and provides an alternative source with correct, verified information.

https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/scott-trust-and-guardian-management-face-staff-fury-over-observer-sale/

alteamessenger.bsky.social•78 days ago

Analyze all you want.

The bottom line...

stufloydy.bsky.social•78 days ago

I was surprised that David Olosuga is on the board of trustees. You'd imagine his sense of history would inform his decisions?

fizz56.bsky.social•78 days ago

Very disappointed that David Olosuga who I’ve always regarded with great respect has sold his soul.

wiccapedia1950.bsky.social•78 days ago

Yeah, they're pretty confident. I don't pay for anything behind a paywall. I don't click on clickbait, so, all good.

stevebasnett.bsky.social•76 days ago

It should be said that there is a member of The Scott Trust Ltd board who has been reasonable and clear thinking throughout. His name is Haroon Siddique, Guardian legal correspondent, and he is the journalists' elected representative on the board. Thank you for your service and integrity, Haroon.

stevebasnett.bsky.social•77 days ago

BBC article names Observer investors: tech investor Saul Klein and Nando's executive Leslie Perlman.

Saul Klein OBE and father Robin are notable investors, with a decent track record.
Les Perlman mentioned in the Paradise Papers:

https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/nodes/56044602

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c89xvjz75l1o

stevebasnett.bsky.social•78 days ago

philwebber.bsky.social•78 days ago

What are staff values? Do they align with editorial tramlines? eg undermining of Corbyn, banning of the word 'genocide', no coverage of recent use of 'terror' legislation against journalists etc. https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/the-guardian-is-not-our-friend-as

richiedude.bsky.social•78 days ago

Sorry just don't consider the Observer (or Gaurdian) as being any more trustworthy or objective as the Mail/Telegraph/Scum/Express or the BBC.

Shown yourselves to be complete sell outs in 2017 and 2019. Shameful.

fizz56.bsky.social•78 days ago

Agree. They’ve joined the MSM race to the lowest possible levels of ethics while scaremongering and reporting non-stories.

mkbelfast.bsky.social•78 days ago

Who's left then?

richiedude.bsky.social•77 days ago

Exactly, new media like byline ddn seem a lot more factual.

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