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This popular indoor market in Stratford has been forced to close (www.timeout.com)

submitted 10 months ago by HeartyBeast@kbin.social to c/london

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The market was known for everything from groceries to clothing and electronics.

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[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

To answer your final question, if you read Ed’s biography on the site:

You’ll usually find him writing about culture, music, design, art, sustainability, travel and London.

I doubt he knows his way around a balance sheet - and knowing how TimeOut has been hollowed out, they probably can’t afford to send him on the Finance for Journalists 1 day course.

[–] Tweak 1 points 10 months ago

That is fair enough, sure. I have no real financial background or competence (lol credit score) but I maybe do have some insight how to process it.

However, even before I went into the proper financials, I quickly found another article that gave far better detail than he did. All he did was jump on the bandwagon of a bunch of people saying it had closed after the fact, the Newham Recorder reported that it was happening beforehand. This is something a real journalist should do, at the very least they should tease out the story and gain some understanding. Saying "the directors have gone into administration" suggests that he didn't even try to get a grasp of the situation - his contribution was barely better than something AI could spin up.