Talk:OpenDemocracy

message: This article seems like an advertisement for the website. Thoughts?
--Popoi (talk) 15:51, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Belated agreement that it's at least a useful website,  a key point is that the writers are journalists and are subject to English libel laws albeit able to claim qualified privilege.  JRPG (talk) 08:05, 6 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Advertisement 

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thread_title:  Copyright problem removed 

message: If this is grammatical English, please explain why.
Otherwise, please correct it. ---Dagme (talk) 02:29, 22 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: "media noun (2), often attributive
plural medias
Definition of media (Entry 2 of 4)
1 : a medium of cultivation, conveyance, or expression
Air is a media that conveys sound.
especially : MEDIUM sense 2b
2a  singular or plural in construction : MASS MEDIA
b medias plural : members of the mass media"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/media
Grammatical. Alcibiades979 (talk) 15:01, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  "established medias" 

message: Mary Fitzgerald isn’t the Editor anymore. And they have a Director now as well. 86.9.128.123 (talk) 22:42, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: There is no evidence for this groundless and manufactured claim. Cambial — foliar❧ 11:17, 2 April 2022 (UTC)

text: It's long focused on Russia - see https://twitter.com/opendemocracyru. The idea that it has links with Russian official media would be pretty quickly dismissed by anyone looking at their coverage. Cordless Larry (talk) 13:03, 2 April 2022 (UTC)

text: Well, it contains the line "In short, there is rightly much anger across the West at what Putin's forces have been doing and will continue to do in Ukraine", and then they've published things like this and this. Talk pages aren't supposed to be used as forums for discussing article subjects but to discuss potential improvements to the article. If you don't have any evidence for your suggestion, this discussion isn't going anywhere. Cordless Larry (talk) 07:02, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Editor 

message: https://x.com/te_rowley/status/1737769134652354939?s=46
unfamiliar with the style to add such an update but just wanted to inform 50.26.189.77 (talk) 17:56, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Closing this month