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The Independent isn't a reliable news source and it has no place on Hacker News. Their advertising is over-the-top because it's a dying business. They don't e
by sudojudo 9y ago
The Independent isn't a reliable news source and it has no place on Hacker News.
Their advertising is over-the-top because it's a dying business. They don't even print anymore, they're just an online tabloid, and when they're not getting enough views, they start making up their own news.
It's too bad, because at one time they were one of the few British papers that was able to stand up to Murdoch's right-wing print empire, but in the end Murdoch had bigger pockets, and the Independent scurried into the shadows to create garbage.
- bootload 9y ago"The Independent isn't a reliable news source and it has no place on Hacker News." Show me what news sources are good for Hacker News ~ https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=sudojudo https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=sudojudo Oh, complain but offer no alternatives. I found it interesting, ads or not (I adblock everything) and hand't read about Dame Steve. Fantastic to think that F1 made 30 or so of their software employees, mostly women millionaires.
- Ntrails 9y ago>They don't even print anymore, they're just an online tabloid I actually had no idea that the independent had stopped doing physical papers - but certainly they weren't a tabloid a few years ago.