Billion-Dollar Endowment Leaves London’s Left-Wing Journalists Unhappy, on Strike

Guardian’s sale of Observer looks like layoff in disguise

[The Editors is called The Editors, plural, not The Editor, singular, for a reason. When I launched it, a shrewd friend advised, “it can’t just be you.” I’m delighted to start introducing some additional voices. Today’s comes from Michael Mosbacher, who is associate comment editor at London’s Daily Telegraph. He is a past editor of Standpoint and The Critic, having co-founded both British magazines.—Ira Stoll.]

Striking journalists picketing outside the Guardian & Observer offices. Photo credit: Andrew Pakes MP/NUJ.

The Guardian media group right now is not in a happy place. This bastion of media progressivism — with substantial US and Australian operations, its reach goes far beyond Britain’s shores — saw its journalists go out on strike last week, and they are set to do so again.

The Guardian and its Sunday stablemate, The Observer, have suffered from an eruption of the autophagy that periodically envelops left-wing journalism.