Eyebrows are raised again over at troubled Observer media purchaser Tortoise. Insiders are grumbling about the impact of the merger on editorial content, including a curious podcast on proscribed group Palestine Action that appeared last month. It ran under the title “the government is at risk of losing support over Palestine Action”…
Addressing the activities of the now banned terrorist organisation, Tortoise hack Jon Ungoed Thomas commented:
“We’ve now seen 700 people, more than 700 people arrested, some of who are very fine members, upstanding members, of our community. People who’ve worked as justices of the peace, people who’ve received OBE’s. So, the government has a problem. What’s going to happen when those people go through the courts? Because some of those people have been arrested under very serious offences, which will need to go to a crown court and a jury… the government really hasn’t carried a lot of people in the country with them on this, because they haven’t convinced people, they haven’t provided the evidence, that this is a terrorist organisation to the satisfaction of a large number of people.”
Sources say insiders grumbled about the episode, questioning whether the (Labour friendly) outlet was wise to run a line questioning Starmer’s decision to proscribe the group. Lefty on lefty fire comes at you hard…
Meanwhile, Tortoise itself is on the road to profitability, generating revenue from an extensive programme of – er- commercial partnerships including with some very large and well-known corporates. Doing corporate business is loathed by its newsroom, packed with lefty reporters who hate big business…
Insiders say the “shambolic” merger has been overshadowed by the “ironic” commercial reality. Observer writers were previously immune from commercial matters, they were able to rely on the super-wealthy Scott Trust endowment fund, so could just write nonsense all day without making any money…
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