More money for Scoop?
The Scoop chrysalis has become a hungry, hungry caterpillar
A running gag at TDB drinks is ‘when will Scoop take back the news‘.
Late last year Scoop ran another one of their campaigns to take back the news and managed to raise tens of thousands of dollars for the relaunch of Scoop. Since then the editor has left to work in Ireland, Scoop has been unable to pay any of the other members of their advertising cartel and Scoop’s Pacific Media Centre has pulled back and formed a new relationship with Evening Report.
Scoop have been raising tens of thousands of dollars at a time to ‘take back the news’ yet it never ever seems to manage to take back that news.
A creaking server and stockpile of press releases doesn’t seem to be much of a news take back.
If Scoop does get some money from their latest call for donations, they should look to pay back the other blogs in the Scoop Advertising Cartel before they do anything else. The Standard, Pundit and Public Address all have mortgages to pay, throw them a bone.
The news that we are facing a newspaper monopoly is however deeply concerning and The Daily Blog shares the same concerns that it will undermine our democracy as Scoop shares, we just think it needs to be handled far differently.
TDB has a weeknightly 7pm current affairs show that streams live online, on all Iwi Radio and on Sky TV; We highlight progressive politics press releases; We have the widest diversity of bloggers in NZ; TDB breaks news, leads news and influences other news; and TDB has close to the same domestic traffic as Scoop.
Scoop needs to show that level of innovation and success before they pass the cap around again because there seems to be absolutely no progress whatsoever from the last time they asked.
Yes Newspaper monopolies are something to fight against, but I still can’t see how Scoop is part of that future without serious adaptation.
Scoop seems to mostly reprint press releases.
I find that visiting Scoop once every couple of months is adequate to see their news as nothing much changes on the site. My internet speed is useless & I can’t see any value in having Sky so I miss your evening broadcast. You do a good job of holding the ruling class to account though which is far better than the MSM who have an attitude of fawning admiration to whatever the government says no matter how wrong they are.