It's the same Guardian Media Group, ultimately owned by the Scott Trust, that's currently slashing and burning its regional media properties in print, TV and ra

It's the same Guardian Media Group, ultimately owned by the Scott Trust, that's currently slashing and burning its regional media properties in print, TV and radio to keep the heavily loss-making Guardian afloat. I hear their Manchester regional arm MEN Media, not content with closing all its small weekly newspaper offices, turning its local TV station Channel M into an infomercial, repeat and music video channel and cutting half its staff, is now up for sale. [1] The MEN Media weeklies, which this time last year had busy newsrooms in each town, are now literally reduced to having a journo sitting in a public library waiting for people to go to them with stories for one afternoon a week. It's a shame for a newspaper that started out as the Manchester Guardian. It's all very well pumping money into this kind of thing, but how will it pay for itself when the more popular and profitable MEN is gone? [1] http://goo.gl/bTGJ http://goo.gl/bTGJ