Saturday 17 July 2010

The Guardian's response to The Times' pay wall.

This has got to be a brilliant response to The Times putting the final bricks in their pay wall......

And a very warm welcome to all our readers from The Times. We're very sorry you awoke to find you could no longer read your newspaper online without a credit card and we feel your pain.

They continue to make their introductions.....

To many of you, much of our website may seem a bit unfamiliar. We're not going to try to hide the fact that on certain – make that all – issues we tend to be the teensiest bit liberal.
But don't let that scare you. We don't bite. Very hard. And we do have a few of our very own Tories writing for us, though apparently they don't like being called Tories so I'm not allowed to say who they are as they have friends in very high places and could get me fired.

And this bit I love especially as I am no fan of the Murdoch dynasty.....

There will of course be a few very noticeable differences. We don't always write about Rupert Murdoch in the way the North Korean media reports Kim Jong-il and we have occasionally made a critical remark about Sky and News International. You may however find it refreshing that we do also criticise the Guardian Media Group when they step out of line.

Lets hope the new readers, and their traffic, will help to put back the losses they suffered last year.

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