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Showing posts with label Newspapers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Newspapers. Show all posts

Monday, 13 August 2012

Guess which newspaper the BBC buys the most of?

Guess which newspaper the BBC buys the most of? Not that tricky is it, but here at The Commentator is the proof.




These numbers are all the more incredible (not surprising) when you realise how small The Guardian and Independent's circulations are in comparison to The Telegraph, Times and Mail. As The Commentator correctly points out:
'The Guardian has a circulation of 230,541 per day compared to the Daily Telegraph’s 634,113 and the Daily Mail with 1.7 million. Meanwhile, the Independent is lagging on a rather sorry-looking 90,001. If you’re too lazy to do the basic mathematics, allow us: that means that two of Britain’s most popular right of centre newspapers combined have a circulation of some 2.3 million compared to The Indie and The Guardian which weigh in at just over 320,000. Odd then, that despite besting their axis of left-wing rivals by seven times in the national market, the BBC procures almost 10,000 less copies of the Mail and Telegraph in the period displayed.'
If the BBC is not biased to the left then why does it buy left of centre papers in numbers that are out of all proportion to the rest of the country? Similarly, does the BBC's position in opposition to Israel have anything to do with its out of proportion purchasing of the two most anti-Israel broadsheet newspapers?

Thursday, 7 July 2011

The 'News of the World' is on its way out, so what will replace it?

I was quite shocked to hear that this Sunday's News of the World will be the last ever issue. However it seems beyond belief that a replacement paper will not be brought out by News International. So what will the paper be called? well domain names may give us a clue...The Sun's URL has the definite article so how about those?
Domain name: thesundaysun.co.uk
Registrant: Bridgeport Enterprises Limited
Domain name: thesunonsunday.co.uk
Registrant: Mediaspring

I wonder if one of those might be a clue. well there is no company registered at Companies House with the name Bridgeport Enterprises Limited


 We won't have long to wait. The News of the World sold in huge numbers and Rupert Murdoch will not want them to move to another organisation's paper. The problem News International will have is in convincing people that any new paper is not just The News of the world Mk2.

Wednesday, 26 May 2010

The eighty-fifth weekly "No shit, Sherlock" award

This week's prize goes to The Press Gazette for the staggering news that: '90% won’t pay for new Times websites'. Who'd have thought it, most people won't pay for something they get for free now - "No shit, Sherlock".