{"id":155287,"date":"2025-07-11T19:11:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T19:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=155287"},"modified":"2025-07-11T19:12:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T19:12:22","slug":"the-guardian-in-uk-seeks-reader-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/the-guardian-in-uk-seeks-reader-support\/","title":{"rendered":"THE GUARDIAN in UK seeks reader-support"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">THE GUARDIAN in UK seeks reader-support<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Source:<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2025\/07\/08\/the-guardian-in-uk-seeks-reader-support\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thuppahis<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong><em>\u201cFrom Minute Hands can an Ongoig\u00a0 \u2018Edifice\u2019 be built\u201d\u2013 Thupphiyaaa<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2025\/07\/08\/the-guardian-in-uk-seeks-reader-support\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-49618 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thuppahis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ANTS-vs-GULLIVER.jpg?w=272&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"elanka\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">AN APPEAL ON EMAIL from THE GUARDIAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/international\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andrew Sparrow,<br \/>\nPolitical correspondent and daily political live blogger<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<table role=\"presentation\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"m_-8940109721204281341wrapto100pc\" role=\"presentation\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\" bgcolor=\"#Ffffff\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"m_-8940109721204281341plr25\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"m_-8940109721204281341wrapto100pc\" border=\"0\" width=\"540\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\n<p class=\"m_-8940109721204281341h6StyleMob\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Hi Michael,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">If you are seeing this, it is because you\u2019re signed up to the Guardian\u2019s website or one of our newsletters. If it\u2019s the former you may well know me from the\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/ablink.email.theguardian.com\/ss\/c\/u001.Yw_JkLMEmFuifc_XG18IRyTNtZQ7fIEMgszcCSneHEACshUEN89KfZ8NIE6x2oUBHYFmO_Ikm9LxkI_l4OVhb-SOFvpMAGbucSVlq1qGHqDX21xiMlaiIsyYDIecU6PPoglRPTvndVF0dK6nt94qfYDk-ViRNbudi0ohHisrx4TGz3ZlQlQDTsulvb9Bnh0YLkebylxsNh9qBTYTHoOY1NBWcOvtc4Ts3wgt0nPeVh2q_3pyu5XQkJqfhDQU3kCP8Iu10FOZ94134-tf5SGz4RmmjFLHg-40bZCxyGGvzgPcoQBnQov8L1sR8_CpShR4f1swtYPbCz6C-GaUBiIpwiF1TAT_556lUgOikSZts4H_igb40IzH18dfNMltpehsos-3H3g-FWg8QTGotGaJr3koVnqY3xl6HNtlLF7GkV8wL93265JuSDnSeOTk8Bz4\/4i0\/xmDduOuSRzmdRR-2Ephmxw\/h24\/h001.sQecIVjfyEgI--38DyP2mYTNAAx6SUnZ_lurztQbR4Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/ablink.email.theguardian.com\/ss\/c\/u001.Yw_JkLMEmFuifc_XG18IRyTNtZQ7fIEMgszcCSneHEACshUEN89KfZ8NIE6x2oUBHYFmO_Ikm9LxkI_l4OVhb-SOFvpMAGbucSVlq1qGHqDX21xiMlaiIsyYDIecU6PPoglRPTvndVF0dK6nt94qfYDk-ViRNbudi0ohHisrx4TGz3ZlQlQDTsulvb9Bnh0YLkebylxsNh9qBTYTHoOY1NBWcOvtc4Ts3wgt0nPeVh2q_3pyu5XQkJqfhDQU3kCP8Iu10FOZ94134-tf5SGz4RmmjFLHg-40bZCxyGGvzgPcoQBnQov8L1sR8_CpShR4f1swtYPbCz6C-GaUBiIpwiF1TAT_556lUgOikSZts4H_igb40IzH18dfNMltpehsos-3H3g-FWg8QTGotGaJr3koVnqY3xl6HNtlLF7GkV8wL93265JuSDnSeOTk8Bz4\/4i0\/xmDduOuSRzmdRR-2Ephmxw\/h24\/h001.sQecIVjfyEgI--38DyP2mYTNAAx6SUnZ_lurztQbR4Y&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1752056083909000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0ecLuwvUpzOa09mNSubZ1y\">Politics Live blog<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 on air on the site most of the time. But do bear with me. Write something interesting, they said. So here goes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">It\u2019s about my favourite quote about journalism, from an editorial in the Times in 1852. \u201cThe first duty of the press is to obtain the earliest and most correct intelligence of the events of the time, and instantly, by disclosing them, to make them the common property of the nation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">I love this because it encapsulates so much of what I\u2019m doing 170 years later.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u201cEarliest\u201d \u2013 news is all about telling people what they don\u2019t yet know. If you don\u2019t enjoy that, you\u2019re in the wrong job.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u201cMost correct\u201d \u2013 coming straight after \u201cearliest\u201d, this implies the writer accepts there is an inherent tension between speed and accuracy\/comprehensiveness. \u201cMost correct\u201d also implies an acceptance that the truth is rarely simple or binary, and that there is always something more to find out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u201cIntelligence of the events of the time\u201d \u2013 not \u201cinformation\u201d about the events of the time, but \u201cintelligence\u201d, which implies something richer, with context, depth and understanding. Raw facts aren\u2019t enough.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u201cInstantly\u201d \u2013 there was nothing instant about the way newspapers were produced in the 1850s, but this word implies the writer knew what it was like to launch a post on a blog.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">And this is the part I like the best:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">\u201cThe common property of the nation\u201d \u2013 because it\u2019s fine to share information with friends, fans or customers, but we live collectively, in a democracy we take decisions collectively, and if that process is going to work, then there are vast swathes of information (the level of the national debt, Thames Water\u2019s pollution record, the death toll in Gaza, Boris Johnson\u2019s lockdown partying record \u2013 the list is endless) that need to be \u201cthe common property of the nation\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">That is why public service journalism matters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">It is why I\u2019m proud of what I do, even though I am just a small cog in an organisation where there are reporters far braver or more brilliant than me.\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/ablink.email.theguardian.com\/ss\/c\/u001.Yw_JkLMEmFuifc_XG18IRyTNtZQ7fIEMgszcCSneHEDc0Ylp12boEptnj6xuG4yxEZ9Yv7X6i4T-wtXD9Vbte20XfO-26phzf-7sMGRZ2E2f1HujComNSCOVabDUgJDgiKL6NJuYBQ8lTwC30gIJZC6Rr2DDdhvrpA9oTfPE7qe4dhi6ETYVhJu66ur0NayHAFTbO21mjePatYO53_1jXud2kxtFb0HYICYuG4ngwaslOcsMKB4o_ykp8BzcjNLFZD-qEaNBiGJZxvuMVYIcaeF_y4eP6_syV6VP3wHRboWk2dCaS6XHLnY_P3ZwOtdcxpZio-fgE2AQVr5Q2DUU6jcFSS0fEKL8fgECXnnJWHxL1TZFnZtDREGxHPLyZ0o33I9Q6XHLt2U4gLtJR3NUsoCkXcR4TNTV5GiEWyRjrfHf4ezI5PE-KOkwjAqBkG8RCdhjmlewFVSaU7kBuOYoUg\/4i0\/xmDduOuSRzmdRR-2Ephmxw\/h25\/h001.fUlj0kxiSspuQzgVKqt_StXIJlRsvOyK-d4CEEsfudY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/ablink.email.theguardian.com\/ss\/c\/u001.Yw_JkLMEmFuifc_XG18IRyTNtZQ7fIEMgszcCSneHEDc0Ylp12boEptnj6xuG4yxEZ9Yv7X6i4T-wtXD9Vbte20XfO-26phzf-7sMGRZ2E2f1HujComNSCOVabDUgJDgiKL6NJuYBQ8lTwC30gIJZC6Rr2DDdhvrpA9oTfPE7qe4dhi6ETYVhJu66ur0NayHAFTbO21mjePatYO53_1jXud2kxtFb0HYICYuG4ngwaslOcsMKB4o_ykp8BzcjNLFZD-qEaNBiGJZxvuMVYIcaeF_y4eP6_syV6VP3wHRboWk2dCaS6XHLnY_P3ZwOtdcxpZio-fgE2AQVr5Q2DUU6jcFSS0fEKL8fgECXnnJWHxL1TZFnZtDREGxHPLyZ0o33I9Q6XHLt2U4gLtJR3NUsoCkXcR4TNTV5GiEWyRjrfHf4ezI5PE-KOkwjAqBkG8RCdhjmlewFVSaU7kBuOYoUg\/4i0\/xmDduOuSRzmdRR-2Ephmxw\/h25\/h001.fUlj0kxiSspuQzgVKqt_StXIJlRsvOyK-d4CEEsfudY&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1752056083909000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2aLXHIQMWMF_XyKsSEcXiY\">The Guardian was set up after the Peterloo Massacre<\/a>\u00a0by people who wanted to make Britain (and the world, we\u2019ve always been internationalist) better and fairer, and who believed that serious, intelligent, liberal reporting would play a role in this. It is still like that more than 200 years later.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">I\u2019m afraid you know what\u2019s coming next \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Online, our work is free on our website. But it is getting harder than ever to fund quality journalism. Print revenues are drastically reduced and the digital environment is getting more hostile (especially with generative AI providing summaries on almost every platform, from WhatsApp to Facebook to Google), and increasingly news organisations are parking their content behind a paywall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><strong>When other news organisations ask you for money, they are asking you to act out of self-interest (they are selling you a key to the paywall). We\u2019re different. 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