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# Hahahaha but this really belongs on /links.
Can't help but chuckle at it though.

Also - did I hear correctly that The times are going to start charging to access their website? WTF with that?
(I helped save b3ta! barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 11:00, archived)
# Murdoch's doing it across the board
As well as trying to sue websites that link to his paper's sites
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 11:01, archived)
# At least we'll still have the Daily Mail
(I helped save b3ta! Barbarossa is not my real name, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 11:02, archived)
# If only there was a newspaper
like The Daily Mail but with lots of stories about are queEn of hartz! I reckon that would be a great newspaper! I would totally buy it!
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 11:03, archived)
# Fucking pouty cuntball isn't he!
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 11:02, archived)
# because murdoch wants to controll all media
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 11:30, archived)
# Aye,
a pound for a day pass on it, or £2 for the week. It just won't work in my opinion.

And as Beau Bo D'Or just said over on twitter, Alexander Lebedev "It was a straightforward choice. One day's access to The Times or buy The Independent."
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 11:01, archived)
# or buy a Coke and a Yorkie and then go to news.bbc.co.uk
(I helped save b3ta! Barbarossa is not my real name, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 11:03, archived)
# But he literally bought the whole company for a pound,
innit.
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 11:04, archived)
# I wonder if he'll make it free, as he did with the Standard
That'd be interesting.
(I helped save b3ta! zoldergoose, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 11:06, archived)
# Oh, right.
He's a smart cookie, that Beau Bo D'Or
(I helped save b3ta! Barbarossa is not my real name, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 11:06, archived)
# ^This
(Only substitute the coke for an oasis)
(I helped save b3ta! Whato_Jeeves Did your surgery require a vaginal mesh patch?, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 11:05, archived)
# Is the Times' website actually any good?
I just use the Beeb whenever I don't get my news from b3ta.
(I helped save b3ta! barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 11:04, archived)
# I don't really know to be honest with you.
I am one of these losers who actually buys a real paper every day :) I do like Caitlin Moran's articles though.

She writes good columns too.

Badum tish!
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 11:05, archived)
# Bloody hell, I didn't think there were many of your sort left.
(I helped save b3ta! zoldergoose, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 11:08, archived)
# oh god, she's an awful self-important little troll
nothing's changed since she wrote for Melody Maker
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 11:13, archived)
# I have it bookmarked, but a cursory history check indicates I've been there twice. Ever.
And both of those were probably the result of poor mouse aim.
(I helped save b3ta! zoldergoose, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 11:06, archived)
# nah - it's shite
the FT is pretty good for proper news

it's an unholy alliance of the BBC, Private Eye, Tabloidwatch and occasionally the Guardian for me
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 11:09, archived)
# it is cos Murdoch is a cuntbadger
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 11:05, archived)
# and there is a whale in the thames!
(I helped save b3ta! Wobbly Bloke Hello, did I miss anything on, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 11:27, archived)