Comments on: The Independent and sister Sunday paper sold for one pound http://www.samizdata.net/2010/03/the-independent/ A blog for people with a critically rational individualist perspective Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:28:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Paul Marks http://www.samizdata.net/2010/03/the-independent/#comment-202685 Paul Marks Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:08:18 +0000 http://192.168.200.139/?p=13264#comment-202685 Actually the “Independent” is such nonsense that (in spite of all the favourable plugs it gets from the taxpayer financed BBC) the Irish owners had to pay the Russian (several million in a printing deal) to take it off their hands – so they could avoid paying redundency costs and so on.

As for Mr Robert Fisk – well if Putin’s boys do decide to beat him up (for misunderstanding their orders and getting the propaganda line wrong) I am sure he will enjoy it.

After all Fisk enjoyed being beaten up by some Muslims – he wrote an article saying how much he enjoyed being beaten by them (it was all part of how we should all pay for the “crimes of the West” or something).

Although Robert Fisk did seem depressed that the Muslims had not buggered him as well.

]]> By: Chuckles http://www.samizdata.net/2010/03/the-independent/#comment-202684 Chuckles Sat, 27 Mar 2010 10:37:24 +0000 http://192.168.200.139/?p=13264#comment-202684 John W,

I’m with you; reminds me of Microsofts’ Edlin editor – free and overpriced.

But take heart, he is paying one pound to have something with which his kid can play, and Independent News and Media are paying him 9.25 million quid to take it off their hands…

]]> By: John W http://www.samizdata.net/2010/03/the-independent/#comment-202683 John W Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:21:38 +0000 http://192.168.200.139/?p=13264#comment-202683 £1?

He wuz robbed.

]]> By: RAB http://www.samizdata.net/2010/03/the-independent/#comment-202682 RAB Fri, 26 Mar 2010 02:20:30 +0000 http://192.168.200.139/?p=13264#comment-202682 Oh good news indeed!

I think I will try my hand a getting a job as Environment Correspondent and rock critic…

Pump up de Gas! Pump up de gas!

]]> By: Alasdair http://www.samizdata.net/2010/03/the-independent/#comment-202681 Alasdair Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:55:40 +0000 http://192.168.200.139/?p=13264#comment-202681 Fiskal comedy ?

The closing of a Fiskous Circle ?

At that price, it’s damn near conFiskation ?

With the new owner, will the Independent continue to be soFiskitated ?

They just keep suggesting themselves, in a fit of Paronomaia …

]]> By: Alasdair http://www.samizdata.net/2010/03/the-independent/#comment-202680 Alasdair Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:49:29 +0000 http://192.168.200.139/?p=13264#comment-202680 Finally, we’ll get all the news it’s Fisk to print ?

]]> By: Laird http://www.samizdata.net/2010/03/the-independent/#comment-202679 Laird Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:56:00 +0000 http://192.168.200.139/?p=13264#comment-202679 Damn, I wish I’d known they were for sale. I’d have given them two pounds!

]]> By: Sam http://www.samizdata.net/2010/03/the-independent/#comment-202678 Sam Thu, 25 Mar 2010 22:51:27 +0000 http://192.168.200.139/?p=13264#comment-202678 Good clarification. I saw a headline on Brietbart and thought it meant that they were selling their papers by the pound.

]]> By: Kim du Toit http://www.samizdata.net/2010/03/the-independent/#comment-202677 Kim du Toit Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:46:12 +0000 http://192.168.200.139/?p=13264#comment-202677 Can’t see how Fisk could complain… after all, wasn’t he in favor of the KGB and the Communists not too long ago? (like last week)

]]> By: lucklucky http://www.samizdata.net/2010/03/the-independent/#comment-202676 lucklucky Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:30:45 +0000 http://192.168.200.139/?p=13264#comment-202676 Well i guess he is happy.

]]> By: Alisa http://www.samizdata.net/2010/03/the-independent/#comment-202675 Alisa Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:37:41 +0000 http://192.168.200.139/?p=13264#comment-202675 Oh boy, this is just too good to be true – love it!

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