Tabloid Mageek strikes again
INQ FOUNDER and tabloid hack extraordinaire, Mike Magee is taking on the established UK tabloids online.
Magee launches The News today, "a site that will deliver breaking global news in a characteristically punchy and controversial style," it says here.
"At a time when multinational and national newspaper groups are cutting staff, closing offices and facing the overhead of print production, distribution costs and declining readership, we feel we've a good chance of taking on the giants by concentrating on sound journalism and challenging the state of journalism now ," Magee spun.
He continued: "A recent article on forbes.com told a stark truth. Print advertising, the piece said, is evaporating, meaning that in the UK, at least, Northcliffe Media and Trinity are still tied to classified ad revenues and can't scale their operations to take advantage of the low-cost model in the online world."
The site will have its news hub in India, where editorial operations will be headed by Subhash Rai, who in today's press release said: "Journalism divorced of traditional journalistic values is there for all to see. Online journalism of The News variety will bring a breath of fresh air."
Mageek added: "Journalists these days are frightened little rabbits told to print or pixellate press releases and taught not to challenge power and vested interests. We will prove that journalism is not dead and that readers want strong journalism and not wishy-washy pap dictated to them by multiple vested interests."
He added: "We don't follow the news, we make The News." µ
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2009 IS Year of Robert Burns, Scottish Poet & Strangely: ?Predessor to Msr. Mike Writens. MIKE, You Look Like Gramps. Robert has 9 Month Celebration in Scotland: "The 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns has been celebrated on a global scale and as it should be - with dancing, singing, laughter and of course the odd dram. theNEWS Never Ends, Only Newscasters grow mOLD. Shirly Mike Wouldn't forget Commentos', Weep, Ultees' Fav. In Scotland there Might NOT Be Much Money ($500/Person/Anos), Nor Much of Anything Modern, yet there is Writings & People Whom Enjoy Investigating How, Oh, GOD, How could this ALL Be true. Of Course Much of Writens where Flower Inspired, yet Snuffles Licuer, On Journy to Center of Earth, Via Navy & Army, Use Corresspondents from ALL Parts of OUR World. Good Luck with theNEWS. Sounds Like Walter Cronkike to Me.
Signed:PHYSICIAN THOMAS STEWART von DRASHEK M.D.
I like the cut of this Magee's jib. Maybe the INQ could hire him to... oh.
I wist that it were true
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That Mad Mike's retinue
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Had all the hacks of caring
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Prosing exposé most daring_
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And wit with-all the most for swearing.
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In this the China Year of the BollOx
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And we've had it to here with the politico Pillocks,
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that man to man the world o'er
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shall brithers and sithers be for a' that'
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As chuckies, a' taken to corn or cock to crow,
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Norn 'pisses more than he drinks',
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Trooly and fairly that covers the earth,
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Some are of Æsir-kin,
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Some are of Elf-kind,
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Some are Dvalinn's daughters.
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Aye take them all on in stride_
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Ye can't nae be arsed to do more.
May be it will help the idiots writing politically oriented columns in the inq understand the difference between IT news site and general news site.
instantnews hasn't been updated since march 24th. Is Mike doing ok?