"Key questions have been left unanswered": Observer and Guardian staff and writers respond to an article by the chair of the Scott Trust www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d... - ThreadSky

gonuj.org • 81 days ago

"Key questions have been left unanswered": Observer and Guardian staff and writers respond to an article by the chair of the Scott Trust

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/dec/09/key-questions-about-the-sale-of-the-observer-that-remain-unanswered

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zloty.bsky.social•81 days ago

It should never be forgotten who founded Tortoise. If hard-line Conservative James Harding does to the Observer what he did to BBC News & Current Affairs, the paper will soon be no more ‘liberal’ than the Sunday Express.

gonuj.org•81 days ago

Signatories include Scott Trust director Haroon Siddique, and columnists @andrewrawnsley.bsky.social, @sonia-sodha.bsky.social, Polly Toynbee, Will Hutton, @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social, John Crace, @rafaelbehr.bsky.social, and Marina Hyde

stevebasnett.bsky.social•81 days ago

Sorry for being so dim and not already across this, but is Haroon Siddique also The Guardian legal correspondent? And therefore subordinate on the paper to Chief Guardian Editor Kath Viner who is on the other side of this and who also sits on The Scott Trust Ltd board?

meldelune.bsky.social•81 days ago

Haroon is the Guardian’s legal correspondent and also the journalists’ elected (sole) representative on the board. He has that tough and lonely job

stevebasnett.bsky.social•81 days ago

That's smashing of you to respond, answering my query very well indeed - thank you so much, Melanie @meldelune.bsky.social. And yes, I very much feel for Haroon right at this moment.

stevebasnett.bsky.social•81 days ago

Thank you and respect to these exceptional individuals, and indeed all of the other hundred signatories. Haroon Siddique is a particular name of note, given the Scott Trust Director title.

dannygolding.bsky.social•81 days ago

There may be good arguments for selling the Observer to Tortoise. But, it is hard to have any confidence in the process if the Scott Trust won't engage with its journalists and production staff to address what appear to be perfectly valid concerns.

stevebasnett.bsky.social•79 days ago

Is it just me or is the Guardian app somehow 'burying' these last three very important letters signed by journalists?
We've really had to search for each of them on the app, already knowing of their existence. Some letters get good prominence, these appear to have been given the opposite treatment.

stevebasnett.bsky.social•81 days ago

Here is my own response to a response letter from The Guardian (Bespoke Communication, ironically - do they know what bespoke means?) just now. I shan't trouble you with their generic bit, but you will have a fair idea.

(The Guardian letter is of course available from me if desired.)

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