The strike this week at the newspaper has, for some of us, a certain significance
Protesters, accompanied by dogs wearing ‘Save The Observer’ signs, join a demonstration outside The Observer’s London headquarters against the newspaper’s potential sale Now that the railway workers and the junior doctors have settled their differences with the Government, it is left to a group of liberal-minded journalists to provide a demonstration of industrial solidarity, and while not exactly bringing the country to its knees,The 48-hour strike – the first time journalists at the paper...
, believing that the loss-making Tortoise does not have the financial resources to secure its future.’s circulation has, in line with the market, been on a precipitous decline for two decades. The economics of the newspaper industry, which was founded on the delivering of a printed product overnight to homes from Penzance to Perthshire,
But for all that, a newspaper is still a desirable asset to own. Witness the queue of potential purchasers ofThe paper has had some sketchy proprietors in the past and survived. It was part of Tiny Rowland’s Lonrho empire for 12 years from 1981 and was used as a mouthpiece in his commercial battle with Mohammed Al Fayed; before that, it was owned by the American oil conglomerate, Atlantic Richfield.
Then there were the nights in the Cockpit pub, adjoining the paper’s offices. I watched as cheques were cashed behind the bar, journalists were hired and fired, songs were sung, fights were started and quickly ended and the occasional tourist would wander into the pub, find themselves in the middle of this Rabelaisian scene and just watch, open-mouthed in wonder.journalists talk of “betrayal” today, they should have been around then.
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