The best article I've read in a long time

interesting but not surprised. In this digital age I would have thought that advertising is the only thing that keeps papers like the Telegraph going, I'm sure even a rag like the Sun has to think about advertising income.

Good on him.  A really excellent but worrying insight.  No surprise to anyone who reads Private Eye.

Doesn´t surprise me in the least. The Barclay brothers are a pair of unprincipled money-grabbing scumbags.

I used to work as a sub-ed on The Scotsman in Edinburgh, which had a long and mostly creditable history as Scotland´s oldest broadsheet, until the Barclays took it over. After that it soon became clear that editorial content took second place to advertising. The normal goal of around 35% advertising became the minimum expected, and news and long planned editorial features regularly took second place to last minute ads. Editors came and went as the most important department became Advertising.

Of course its not unusual for millionaire proprietors to set the political tone for their playthings - this has always been the case - but news accuracy and some degree of objectivity were always paramount. Unfortunately no longer.

One thing the Telegraph boss did get right is traditional papers are dying as people turn more and more to digital content...I wonder why?

Noam Chomsky did all this in 1988, Obone is bit late to the party

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_model

those of you who are capable of it might want to read 'the triumph of the political class' by said oborne. he was bang-on. sadly, it made little difference. he was derided by the grauniad, because he was a bit too posh, and therefore must be a spokesman for the tories. he was not, but even a suspicion of class solidarity placed him beyond the pale.

he gives it to all of them. left and right. no doubt the same guardianistas who hated him for his background will now be cheering his exposure of the right-wing/tory/fascist....etc.

By the end of the 1950s, the brothers were running Candy Corner, a tobacconists and confectioners on the edge of Kensington. However, in November 1960 the business folded when Frederick and Douglas were made bankrupt at the High Court after their landlord seized the shop because they were in breach of the terms of the lease.[10] A notice in the London Gazette at that time announced the bankruptcies, listing a former business interest of Frederick, then aged 26, and Douglas, two years his junior, as a builders and decorators called Barclay Brothers based at the Barclay family home.

Failed painters and decoractors and then failed sweetshop owners, now controlling what we read. How does that work

meh , not great.

They mentioned this on newsnight the other night.  They seemed to suggest he was a loose cannon and were slightly, but not wholly, dismissive of his statement.

More to it to me, seems like disgruntled employee, but no doubt what he says is true, just doubt he is doing it for 'democracy'