Suicidal Guardian

[Deleted User] · 15/09/11 - 15:43

The paper is increasing its price to £1.20 (Mon-Fri) and £2.10 on Saturday.
I cannot see the sense in this at all.

[Deleted User] · 15/09/11 - 16:43

I thought Suicidal Guardian was the name of a book tbh :P

Sven945 · 15/09/11 - 20:37

It's their new Thursday supplement.

[Deleted User] · 15/09/11 - 22:56

Scott_P wrote: »

I thought Suicidal Guardian was the name of a book tbh :P

Its quite catch really isn't it.
Could be the latest Martin Amis or Will Self.

doom&gloom · 15/09/11 - 23:35

Inflation I would imagine.

The Guardianistas will still buy it though, they need to know what to think.

IRKarl · 16/09/11 - 09:49

It would have been better to put a Paywall on there site and kept the newspaper cost low.

[Deleted User] · 16/09/11 - 16:43

I will still be buying it, its only going up by 20p. You could always pick up The Metro and find out why the celebs are up to/stories from the previous days Evening Standard (if in London area). At the end of the day you get what you pay for.

doom&gloom · 16/09/11 - 18:59

The i is only 20p though, a sixth of the cost why not buy that is you want something a bit more highbrow than the Metro?

jcafcw · 16/09/11 - 20:09

Saturday Guardian and The Observer are worth it for the review supplements alone. Worth every penny and I am the kind of old fart who cannot stand reading anything but the briefest headlines online.

Give me a physical paper anyday.

this_is_me · 17/09/11 - 09:31

I still buy the Saturday Guardian and The Observer (on subscription), but have switched to reading it for free on my Kindle the rest of the week. Its not so much the price, but I find it more convenient to carry around, I can read it over breakfast or even before I get up, and it knocks about 5 minutes off my morning commute because I no longer have to take a detour to the newsagent where I invariably got stuck behind a queue of school kids.

Sven945 · 17/09/11 - 16:05

IRKarl wrote: »

It would have been better to put a Paywall on there site and kept the newspaper cost low.

But they're making (relatively) shedloads from their website. I seem to remember a few years back they announced they were making as much from online as they were from the dead tree version? They've made the decision that, in news at least, free with a mass audience is the way to go. Perhaps some of their specialist content (mediaguardian could be the first, which would be a shame, but not surprising) will start to charge somehow. But I think erecting a paywall would not lead to a cheaper paper.

samandmai · 21/09/11 - 05:07

doom&gloom wrote: »

Inflation I would imagine.

The Guardianistas will still buy it though, they need to know what to think.

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Utter garbage - the last thing I buy the Guardian for is the opinion pieces - it has the best international news coverage, arts, sport, obituary pages and book reviews of any UK paper.

samandmai · 21/09/11 - 05:12

doom&gloom wrote: »

The i is only 20p though, a sixth of the cost why not buy that is you want something a bit more highbrow than the Metro?

I want to read a newspaper that contains real journalism, not a bunch of pasted together news agency reports, news "matrixes" (whatever they are) and boiled down articles from an underfunded so-called 'quality' paper.

[Deleted User] · 21/09/11 - 12:39

doom&gloom wrote: »

The i is only 20p though, a sixth of the cost why not buy that is you want something a bit more highbrow than the Metro?

You can get six i papers for the price of five weekday Guardians.

Good value imo.

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