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    Posted: 22 May 2012 at 12:20am
Has anyone seen tomorrow's front page yet? It's gone viral on facebook and twitter. Worth a look tomorrow. Here's the link to walesonline and the article it's self. The front page it's self is even worse. Whatever your views are on the Welsh language it seems like suicide for the Western Mail to describe bilingualism as a luxury we can't afford, when it's readership is already falling rapidly.
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I'm hoping this puts Andy Howell out of a job Big smile
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R'wyn cytuno! Anfaddeuol ganddynt am grybwyll y fath beth. Erthygl enbyd!
 Papul Cenedlaethol Cymru?????  
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The Mail does excel in the arena of Sales Prevention.

Pob lwc gyda'r erthygyl ma bois bach, mama annwyl.
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Originally posted by Wil Chips<strong><FONT size=2> Wil Chips wrote:

The Mail does excel in the arena of Sales Prevention.

Pob lwc gyda'r erthygyl ma bois bach, mama annwyl.
 
 
 
 
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In 1972, Roy Bergiers scored that try and said "that was for you lofty"

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Nothing more than a low-rent gutter paper now that will exploit any sensitive or provocative issue to whip up 'debate'.
 
The irony here is that the Western Mail is propped up itself by taxpayers money and publically funded organisations who are all invested in a bilingual Wales and the Welsh Language Act.
 
A disgrace to the nation. Please stop buying it!
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Not even good enough to wrap your chips in.
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Originally posted by A Evans A Evans wrote:

Not even good enough to wrap your chips in.
Even Wil!
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Anybody happen to have an email address for the editor? Can't bring myself to look at their website!
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Difficult. It's not a great article is it. However, I do hope WAG consider saving a few £££ back to keep me in my current job when my contract runs out in 3 months.
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What ever people's views on the cost, for the national paper of Wales to basically say our national language isn't important is a bloody disgrace. They should be ashamed and have sunk to a new low.
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What the hell were they thinking of with this article? An absolute disgrace Angry
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They've done what they set out to do - generate debate. Regardless of its quality, it's the first WM front page in a long time that's got people talking. I bet they sold a few extra copies off the back of the furore too.
 
 
Gentlemen, gentlemen, I'll never understand. A world of knowledge at your fingertips, and you play poker all night.
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£400k doesnt seem a huge annual amount compared to all the other millions they manage to waste
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As someone pointed out on Twitter - there are around 350,000 Welsh speakers and 61,000 Western Mail readers in Wales.
Which one do you think should go first?
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