Why the Guardian is going down the pan!

Also:

 

Protesters on the streets, risking being murdered. Owen thinks they are fighting US domination ....

 

the Guardian contains less information per colum ince than its right wing counterparts. IMO this is an evil plan to stupify the Left .
Good to see Grumblemunters doing well for himself though

 

"Colum ince"? This thread isn't the Grauniad itself, you know.

 

Fuck off you snotty idiot. . I like the way you idiots react ti misspeltthreads.... shows how petty and irrelivent you and your world is.

oh ... unless you like the Guardian
...... or your Tory Boy ??? Course yer not He would have said somthing more cleverer

 

So if you think this is irrelevant why did you join?

 

Dont get paranoid . I wasnt talking about the entire collective... just people who have no other contribution than a fucking spellcheck

Obviously i could focus on the gramma and spelling, or use a spellcheck. But the way my brain works is spitting words out in a flow ... and i like leaving an obvious error there because, as I say - it does expose people who obviously oppose the points i make but can`t articulate them. So, what i try do is grab that "You cant even spell" comment and interrogate it until i find out where they actually stand . Then we can have a debate that might enrich us.

 

Okay.

If it helps I make errors in my posts all the time - typos, even words missed out. My brain moves faster than my fingers sometimes and the predictive text on my phone is just plain weird. If I see them, I tend to go back an edit where I can, but I don't always notice.

But there are uberpedants on here so brace yourself

 

Weights & measures eh?

 

Apparently Bannon's favourite!

 

RE: First post:
This is relevant, as the New York Times is the American equivalent of the Guardian, and the following would suggest an international decline in liberal media, steered by secret services and government departments after 9/11.

James Risen a former New York Times journalist through the 9/11 era has spoken out about the inherent filters in place within the commercial media.

My Life as a New York Times Reporter in the Shadow of the War on Terror

 

This is fucking abysmal. 'Look at me I am not a nazi and also my therapist is jewish. '
Why was I forced to spray paint over a Nazi slogan on a London bus stop? | Kay Holmes

 

re:Bimble

Probably single-handedly stopped the rise of the National Socialists TBH. Almost makes me want to ... no, it doesn't.

 

otherwise I wouldn't have given a shit.

 

just when you thought the abysmal shite in the guardian couldn't get any worse...

 

'The owners of Tourmaline Springs say they resent being lumped in with other businesses they feel are jumping on the raw food bandwagon.

I call them entrepreneurial opportuni-whores,” said Pruzansk. “People who see a trend and just want to make money. We’re basically the founders of this entire thing. Having other companies copying our efforts and doing it in a way that is potentially dangerous – we’re a little taken aback.”'



Caught in a deluge: 'raw water' pioneers blame 'opportuni-whores' for brouhaha

 

It's actually quite embarrassing just how bad The Guardian has become and how increasingly censorious they are too. More and more, they don't allow any reader comments at all on those articles they think will draw a critical response. And as for the overall standard of journalism......peak virtue-signalling doesn't even cover it. No wonder it's dying a death and begging for money to survive.

 

Yes. As an aside from the rest of the paper, which has really 'gone down the pan' but still has the odd good bit, I was reading the Saturday magazine today.

just awful, stale, pretentious, unimaginative. Last week's had their standard stable of journalists going over the year, in satire (I use the term loosely). This week it was more or less the same journos doing their NY resolutions

The columns and the fashion have been awful for some time but there used to be the odd interesting article.

 

I've no problem at all with having no reader comments tbf. They should do that on all their stories.

 

I mean, have you read them when they do allow them??

 

Yes

Never again

 

I feel guilty for gentrifying my neighbourhood. What should I do?

 

Kill yourself.

 

From the top "guardian pick" from the comments:
"You make your community nice - build up a city farm, open a cafe, support your kids' school, sort out the youth club, look after your garden. Then the vampires move in. You know who they are. 'Sought after'. 'Improving'. 'Investment'. 'Vibrant'. 'Zone 2'. They're the ones. In cahoots with each other, talking up the 'market. Don't blame the people who do the hard work. Blame the estate agent."

 

A bit of background info on the journalist.

How the welfare state helped homeless Poppy to win a place at Cambridge University

 

And that is where it all went wrong for her Such a promising start too .

 

So?

 

no it isn't.

 

What's your point? That this somehow makes her and (more importantly) The Guardian immune to criticism? Isnt that the main point of this thread? To point out when the Guardian publishes stuff like that with headlines like that. As is so often the case with things on the thread the headline suggestions a worse article than the actual thing. That tells us something about the Guardian's sensibilities and who it is targeting doesn't it? And someone's position within society is not defined by their history, but by their current activity. Do you think the Guardian would have given her a column if she had been too afraid to go to Cambridge and had opted for some ex-polly instead?

And while we are sort of on the subject, I hate the way social mobility has somehow become a substitute for equality. More social mobility does nothing to improve equality, I'd does nothing to help the millions of people struggling to get buy. All more social mobility is likely to do, is give us more wankers with an 'while I made it good, so anyone can' mentality.