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A newspapers finances aren't going to be managed by its editorial team, and bringing themselves up is a distraction from what the editorial team is trying to ac
by avar 11y ago
A newspapers finances aren't going to be managed by its editorial team, and bringing themselves up is a distraction from what the editorial team is trying to achieve.
Furthermore there's no general hypocrisy involved in advocating for stricter government policy A while following the loose current law to do B because 1) You gain nothing from changing these things on the individual rather than policy level and 2) if you do A instead of B you're at a competitive disadvantage.
- sievebrain 11y agoIt's the Guardian. You can't separate their financing from their politics because their financial setup was done specifically to allow them to lose money by running a newsroom far larger than their readership would normally allow. The Guardian has not advocated for stricter government policies: they can't because they can't even define tax avoidance, let alone formulate a solution. Instead they've engaged in moral crusades in various attempts to shame companies into paying more tax than they actually have to, whilst simultaneously refusing to do so themselves. That is, I believe, general hypocrisy.