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MSM is dying and rightly so

Two years ago the Daily Telegraph wanted circa £350 Pa for the on line editions but asprompt “get lost” got it for £100.

This year they tried £150. Same response and I mean it, I will scrap it.

This year I secured it for £89.

I now only have it for reader comments which in many cases are very well informed and at time hilarious.

As a newspaper outside those comments it’s utter junk filled with covid/net zero etc propaganda .

It’s going to be hilarious watching the earnest but utterly wrong correspondents who are still saying Ukraine can win , now back track.

The sudden shift to sorts of support Trump is equally entertaining.

I should add I’ve read the paper since Sept 1969 so I have a fair grasp of its sentiments but since 2020 it’s sunk to the level of a comic.

It’s finished unless there is a vast change.

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I watch its Ukraine channel on YouTube - the jingoism around reporting - very anti-Russia, very little objectivity. No cognition of a million dead and 3 million wounded in total from both sides - just "nasty Russians. evil Putin". "heroic Ukrainians" - which rather misses the unfolding tragedy, caused by US "blob" neo-cons like Nuland starting even before Maidan in 2014 in one of the most corrupt countries in the world - Hunter Biden playground!

(I used to get most of the ST crossword back in the 70's! - my father could finish off what I culdn't!).

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Peter, pls address comments on previous posts - see my last messages plus email just now.

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They can sink in it

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