"Unfair" follows "rotten timing" and "bad luck"

Websites themselves are still failing to make money. Media institutions nationally are only taking 20 per cent of advertising compared with Google, which alone takes 40 per cent. Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger said: "There is something intrinsically unfair about the advantage that Google has by taking the lion's share of the advertising, but I think at the moment Google by and large are helping us all."

Ms. McCall [chief executive of the Guardian Media Group] said: "We are partners with Google. We do make some money from them."

Reporting from the Society of Editors, on the "big issue".


How does this work, the intrinsically unfair? Classified Jobs Advertising, anyone? Now who has a monopoly on that?

Blog on Blogging is almost in Latin and the Quill used to write it is just a tad acidic for these times

In the US "shock-jock" populist talk radio of the Howard Stern school has overwhelmingly been rightwing and partisan regardless of whether Democrats or Republicans occupy the White House. We have nothing so vicious (or vacuous) here. Indeed, the dominant BBC is often criticised for being culturally liberal as well as politically nihilistic, sometimes rightly so.

The Guardian's Michael White takes a punt at explaining the InfoWeb and Web Logs in the wake of Hazel Blears claiming that bloggers could be nihilsts.


Here's another extract:

Jon Cruddas, a Portsmouth comprehensive school boy, who has moved up in the world far enough to have been a Downing St aide, now MP for Dagenham, is always banging on about the white working class being excluded from New Labour's multicultural meritocracy.

Chris Hughes anyone?


Why not?


Or this, which is the best answer of all.