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Personally, I am surprised that The Guardian is still in operation. This is a media outfit that has outlived its usefulness in several respects. Dozens and dozens of men and women helped that organization to its superior and enviable height. But for whatever reason, the paper rested on its laurel, and started living off its glory days.

What innovation has Guardian been involved in recent years? What news has it broken? What first class investigative journalism has the paper done in the last decade or so? The outfit doesn’t even have international presence. It’s got name, but it is stale.

What’s worse? The Guardian pays peanuts. I mean it pays peanuts to its lower-level worker (starting from their street-level journalists). If you are a Reuben Abati or any of the other bigshots, that’s fine…but the rest? Yeye rolling!

On the average, the Guardian pays almost 35% less than, say, ThisDay. True, unlike ThisDay, the Guardian pays regularly and almost on a consistent basis -- but its pay structure is very dismal. While ThisDay may owe its worker 2-6 months salary before catching up, the Guardian pays on time. ThisDay folks rely mostly on “undertable exchanges” to survive.

If they close down Guardian geeeeeeeeeeeeeee no one is going to shed a tear (save for all those street-level workers who might end up on the unemployment line).