It’s hard to find anything positive to say about the Mirror Group, the publisher of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, the People and numerous other local papers.

In all our elections the Mirror Group works together with so called ‘antifascist’ organizations to print smears and lies about the British National Party, something that a normal country would not tolerate.

Its journalists often breach the law, but they know very well that the BNP cannot afford to sue them in court and libel laws do not cover political organizations but only individuals.

Because of this nationalists will be delighted to hear that the Mirror Group has announced the biggest Fleet Street lay-off in recent years with 200 jobs to go across the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and People.

Around one in three of those to go are casuals. The staff headcount reduction amounts to around one in four journalists working on the three titles.

National Union of Journalists general secretary Jeremy Dear responded to the news tonight saying: “It’s disgraceful that against a background of making more than £70m in profit last year and of paying millions in remuneration to a handful of Trinity mirror execs, the company should now throw more than a quarter of its talented, hardworking workforce onto the scrap heap.

“A multimedia future without talented, multi-media journalists is a short cut to disaster.

“This savage package of redundancies is also a stark warning to editorial staff at national, regional and local newspapers all over the country, as they reveal the real, cost-cutting intent behind the introduction of content management systems such as Contentwatch, as used at the Trinity Mirror group and ATEX, as used across Johnston Press.”

The company looks to be replicating the newsroom mergers which have gone on across its regional press divisions – at centres like Liverpool and Birmingham – where hundreds of editorial jobs have been cut in the last few years.

Trinity says that the job cuts follow the announcement of “significant investment” and the introduction of “ContentWatch”, a web-based content management system.

Trinity claims that the “new system and processes enable the production of high quality content across multiple channels while ensuring each title retains its quality, integrity and unique identity”.

The extent of the cutbacks is emphasised by the fact that Trinity Mirror felt it necessary to state in its press release that each national newspaper title will retain its own editor.

Trinity said that elements of the subbing process will be out-sourced and that news and features writing are to be merged into what it calls “super pools” of journalists working across all three titles

Daily Mirror editor Richard Wallace said: “Our future is a multimedia one and we need to transform ourselves into an agile media business, ready to grasp the opportunities and challenges of the multimedia world we now inhabit.

“Our traditional skills and processes have to change to embrace the emerging platforms and keep our titles in good health. We cannot continue to do what we do in the way that we have always done it. We simply have to evolve in order to keep our historic and world famous newspapers as relevant and successful as when they first launched over 100 years ago.”

However the British Association of Journalists (BAJ) was very upset by this plan and accused Trinity Mirror of “ripping the heart” out of The Mirror, The Sunday Mirror, and The People with proposals to axe 200 journalists from the titles.

In a strongly-worded statement issued this morning, the union said there was no justification “for the rape of the MGN titles” and accused management of sacrificing the papers and journalists for short-term profits.

“The 200 proposed redundancies amount to about 40 per cent of the editorial workforce on the three titles,” the statement from the BAJ continued.

“Management is ripping the heart out of proud newspapers to make more quick bucks out of the national titles. It is tragic.

The union said it believed MGN was likely to make an operating profit similar to that made in 2009, a figure which was achieved without any significant job losses during those 12 months. The BAJ said that MGN titles made £60m operating profit in 2009.

“MGN titles and their journalists are being sacrificed for short-term bigger profits with no thought for the future,” the union added.

“BAJ has been pointing out to the directors for a long time that they should copy the News International and Mail titles which employ more than twice as many journalists as MGN titles do and have circulations of two or three times that of MGN titles. But they are deaf to reality.

“The idea that first-class national newspaper subbing and page drawing can be maintained in some outsourced ‘factory’ shows how little Sly Bailey & Co understand about the demands of quality journalism.

“The proposed destruction of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and The People editorial teams is a crying shame.

Maybe the one with a problem understanding quality journalism is the BAJ’ representative, because it is clear to anybody with half a brain that the Mirror’ rags are a case study of gutter press and trash reporting.

MGN circulation continues to fall because the only readers they have are in the main, pot-smoking marxists, brainwashed students, or brain dead morons, and it is no secret that the Mirror Group is propped up by the Labour party, QED.

Whatever the reason for these cuts we are happy to see that those useless and NAZI journalists finally pay the price for their arrogance and contempt.

They feel that they have the right to demonise the white working class because the NUJ parasites have never experienced the hardship of the Common Man and they use their position to abuse anyone who dares oppose their leftwing and multiracial agenda.

Now that people are voting with their pocket they (NUJ, BAJ) will have to live in the real world like everybody else.

They deserve no sympathy and we can only hope that the bankruptcy of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and the People comes sooner rather than later.

* Sly Bailey, chief executive of Trinity Mirror, saw her take home pay increase by almost 68 per cent last year to a total remuneration of £1.68m.

Bailey’s package included a basic salary of £736,000, a cash bonus of £671,000 with an additional £248,000 in pension contributions to trump the those figures comes the £1m package she was paid in 2008.

Its finance chief, Vijay Vaghela was the company’s second highest paid executive. He took home £909,000 last year – this was 67 per cent increase on the £545,000 he took home the previous year.

Vaghela’s package included £430,000 basis salary, £350,000 cash bonus and a pension contribution of £110,000.

Its legal director, Paul Vickers, had a take-home package of £754,000 including a basic salary of £ 375,000, a cash bonus of £229,000 and pension contributions of £119,000.

Vickers package was a 46 per cent increase on the £515,000 package he took home in 2008.

Not bad for people preaching equality and social justice.

GIUSEPPE DE SANTIS

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