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Though the paper is expensive on the newsstand, you can get 6 months delivered to your door for 1000 Worldperks points through the Northwest Airline Worldperks program. For the past three weeks it has come to my working class surburb of Detroit (i.e. not what one would consider a prime market) doorstep by 6:30am.

Take a look on the german vers of the text. The Creation is totally different. In the German text it says the the FT was renamend and originally named FInancial News.

Curious....

Moreover, the James Sheridan the article links to certainly did not found it. The article on Horatio Bottomley states that he founded the paper. Burschik 08:24, 1 September 2005 (UTC) The German article seems to be based on this page, and a James Sheridan is mentioned here. Burschik 08:47, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

I used to work for the FT and the version that all employees are told is that the current Financial Times is descended from the Financial News. However when the two papers merged, it was decided to change the name to Financial Times

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I was wondering, how would we include the fact that the FT Group also owns other magazines such as The Banker, fDi Magazine, FT Mandate, PWM, etc. which all caome under the heading of FT Business Publications? I'm tempted to create an article for The Banker, although am wondering whether it may be a better idea to create one article which houses all FT Business Publications magazines. Any thoughts on this? -- (User:A.szczep) 20:17, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Each pub should have an article. lots of issues | leave me a message 21:38, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] This is a Very Crude Article - There's Not One Whiff of Criticism!

It used to be that one could approach the financial times for an unbiased, and relatively apolitical commentary on how the economy is performing, and likely trends, etc... But now, I believe that the reporting has become extremely biased, and that the Financial Times very probably does not provide anything like an objective assessment of economic facts, etc... I can certainly list several criticisms (without going into the detail of criticising inadequate information, errors and mistakes that occur within the Financial Times), but I shall refrain from doing so in order to find out what others believe.

ConcernedEconomist 20:39, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

Interesting, in whose interests is it now biased? When did this change occur? Drutt 00:26, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pink

The reason for this change? Whose idea was it? Have any other newspapers been published in this color? Drutt 02:50, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

According to this, the Sporting Times (1865-1932) was also published on pink paper. Drutt 09:54, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

I don't know whose idea it was, however the FT has fought two court case at least to seek to prevent other publishers using pink stock for city pages - one with the Evening Standard which is lost and the Standard proceeded to print its city pages on pink page and one with an indian publisher. The FT failed to establish the pink coloured paper as a signficant enough to trademark.

As an aside in the late 90's the sister site FT.com was blocked by the networks of some City banks on the basis that the pages contained so high a percentage of flesh pink that the blocking software deemed them pornographic.

Ha. I'm wondering if there was originally some budgetary reason for the decision to print on pink paper - maybe cheaper than white? Drutt 00:26, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
I remember reading in the FT about the paper's colour. I think it was in an edition of the paper which was celebrating its centenary. The article said that at the time it was cheaper to dye the paper pink then to bleach it white. Nowadays it is cheaper to bleach it white than to dye it pink. The paper has stayed pink out of tradition. Sloman 17:22, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] dax 20.08.2007

only gemany prices "Deutsche Bank", no europe, no world? 194.100.52.2 17:47, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Political Affiliation

I suggest removing this from the bar in the right, it's unsourced and is not suggested in the newspaper.24.107.115.178 (talk) 22:35, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

It's difficult to source the political allegiance of newspapers except blatantly obvious ones such as the Mirror or the Telegraph, however it's widely accepted among other media sources that the Financial Times is a liberal paper. I think that the allegiance should just say liberal. It can't really be described as an economically liberal paper, it opposed much of Margaret Thatcher's economic policy in the 80s and recently called for the nationalisation of Northern Rock. It also can't really be described as a socially liberal paper, it rarely gives opinion at all on social issues. Sneyton (talk) 16:27, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] James Sheridan

Removed James Sheridan internal link as it links to article about Scottish MP James Sheridan. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Uranium grenade (talk • contribs) 21:16, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Chomsky quotation

According to the article, "Noam Chomsky has said that it is "the only paper that tells the truth". The citation is to Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media. This has been disputed on Democratic Underground, where a contributor wrote: "Video of his statement can be seen on Manufacturing Consent. He said that financial publications are the only ones that tell the truth, not that the financial times exclusively is the only paper that tells the truth." [1] Can someone check this? JamesMLane t c 10:30, 22 April 2008 (UTC)