The UK Independent was set up as an independent Newspaper – which most people would expect meant it supported independent views – like us sceptics. In reality, like so many things of the “global warming” types in society – what they said they were and what it really was were poles apart.
For the Independent together with the Guardian and BBC fed their gullible readers/viewers/listeners with one unending garbage shoot of global warming non-science and then had the gall to attack any who stood up for real science.
Their most notorious article of course was the “Children won’t know what snow is” one – notorious not so much for what it said because many other newspapers repeated similar lies – but because the idiots at the Independent and UEA were so arrogant that they would get away with telling these lies that it never seems to have crossed their tiny little brains that their words would be repeated back at them year after year after year.
And being the complete hypocrites all these global warming alarmists are – the Independent failed to get readers, failed to adapt to the economic realities of the internet and has been draining money – not helped by chasing the same idiotic fringe interests as the Guardian – when the UK Guardian has a massive amount of fossil fuel money (from selling the profitable auto-trader in order to fund the loss making green propaganda sheet.).
So, the end was always on the cards. But today (rather like the Independent) I finally heard the news:
The Independent newspaper to become digital only https://t.co/sIzcYNXT8i pic.twitter.com/PNDuhgXgQV
— Stacey (@journostacey) February 12, 2016
Of course this is just a last desperate attempt at cost cutting. Because much like the change from high-cost high-street to lower cost supermarket shopping and then lowest cost online shopping, the only thing that makes a newspaper worth more than this blog is the fact it has a paper version. That’s not to say this blog is worth anything – only that any newspaper trying to compete with my blog on price is in a price-war they cannot win (unless they start paying people to read).
So, far from going “digital” being a panacea for making money, it is in fact going for the lowest possible profit margin section of the newspaper business. And when your audience is the same gullible greens as the Guardian and BBC – both of whom can dollop (other people’s) money to buy readers – it’s not a battle the Independent can win without turning its back on its traditional readers.
So, Independent – a great idea when it started – destroyed by far from independent journalists pushing their views at society rather than giving society the newspaper it wanted – RIP
The Independent also produced this alarmist gem.
Antarctica is likely to be the world’s only habitable continent by the end of this century if global warming remains unchecked, the Government’s chief scientist, Professor Sir David King, said last week.
He said the Earth was entering the “first hot period” for 60 million years, when there was no ice on the planet and “the rest of the globe could not sustain human life”. The warning – one of the starkest delivered by a top scientist – comes as ministers decide next week whether to weaken measures to cut the pollution that causes climate change, even though Tony Blair last week described the situation as “very, very critical indeed”.
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/why-antarctica-will-soon-be-the-only-place-to-live-literally-58574.html
King is clearly as big a dickhead as Viner.
Yes King was a dickhead. But what Viner was doing was particularly nasty as he was using children to push his vile politics.
“Yes King was a dickhead.”
Still is, unfortunately.
It’s a general principle of science – that the dickheads rise to the top.
I thought Prince Charles was the dickhead 🙂
I really ought to get a “like” button!!
Frankly, the reason I was born in the New World was due to my ancestors getting on the wrong side of the royals way back in the 1600’s. 🙂
I was one of the 12 or so people who objected to Charles Marrying Camilla!
Very few people know and no one is ever told, that there still exists a right for the public to elect monarchs. So, I plan to get on his wrong side yet again by exercising my right to vote against him as monarch.
I seem to remember an old joke that goes something like ‘ They might look down on us but when we look up at them all we see are arseholes !! ‘
Is there no chance that the Queen can outlive him?
For a bit of cash, I’m sure Sir Putin has folk that can make sure that the Queen does just that!!