Why the Guardian is going down the pan!

[andysays]

It's regrettable that anything I'd like to say on the matter (eg buck-passing knbohead) would be moderated to meaninglessness.

Yeah, I gave up posting on there some years ago for that very reason, among others.

One thing I did notice was that he totally omitted to mention the fact that many of the E15Focus families were likely to be rehoused hundreds of miles away. Still, out of sight, out of mind, eh?

 

[Orang Utan]

The scales have fallen from my eyes recently about the Guardian. Insidious poison.

 

[DaveCinzano]

The scales have fallen from my eyes recently about the Guardian. Insidious poison.

What next, William?

 

[Orang Utan]

A hippy?

 

[rekil]

Rory Carroll on form. Probably the article he always wanted to write about Venezuela. War is great.

In the Californian desert, UK and US forces crave 'a crack at the headcutters'

“It’s what we train to do,” said Blake Harding, 22, still buzzing after unleashing about 1,700 rounds from a machine gun. “It’s quite cathartic.”

 

[DaveCinzano]

New Guardian survey manages to express typical Graun half-measures in form of poorly-expressed monitoring question:

 

[butchersapron]

Note the progress bar. Answer on our terms or fail in the journey to full progressiveness.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Note the progress bar. Answer on our terms or fail in the journey to full progressiveness.

Actually it's a typo - that's an interactive values bar, measuring how right-on the reader is.

It should read ‘You're progressive’.

 

[rekil]

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/oct/10/-sp-could-you-be-a-star-blogger-vlogger?CMP=twt_gu

Yukky.

Brands are keen to work with students

 

[butchersapron]

And they wonder why we support ISIS.

 

[DaveCinzano]

And they wonder why we support ISIS.

 

[butchersapron]

Make sure to allow them to order what they want and then sneer at their choice of food laurie.

 

[Pickman's model]

what happened to her sojourn in america?

 

[DaveCinzano]

what happened to her sojourn in america?

She's still there - these days all the penniless working class students with a strong brand commute across the Atlantic whenever a monetisation or brand-building opportunity comes up.

She's on the guestlist for Amanda Palmer's book launch party in November - Nazi fancy dress optional:

 

[Pickman's model]

She's still there - these days all the penniless working class students with a strong brand commute across the Atlantic whenever a monetisation or brand-building opportunity comes up.

She's on the guestlist for Amanda Palmer's book launch party in November - Nazi fancy dress optional:

is prince harry going then?

 

[DaveCinzano]

is prince harry going then?

Him, Amanda and Laurie will be providing entertainment in the form of a live reeneactment of that Romain Gavras M.I.A. video.

 

[butchersapron]

Just fucking why? Why report this?

 

[DaveCinzano]

Just fuckView attachment 62435 ing why? Why report this?

WTF?! Where did Roy Plomley go?

 

[DotCommunist]

now he's gone white haired he reminds me of colonel sanders

 

[PoorButNotAChav]

Today The Guardian published an article by Hannah Giorgis headlined "The problem with the west's Ebola response is still fear of a black patient". As well as containing 16 uses of the journalistic "we" (such as "We will tweet about how much more terrifying Ebola is than black-eyed ghost children." and "We will try to hide our fear behind jokes with dying black bodies as their punchlines.") the article contains the following statement:

Liberia is perilously under-resourced to deal with the outbreak, and the United States has perhaps ominously committed only military personnel there.

http://www.donotlink.com/c2r3

The United States has committed military personnel to the area of West Africa worst affected by the current Ebola epidemic. They are there to build 17 treatment units which contain 100 beds each. The US military has also "deployed three mobile laboratories to assess whether individuals with symptoms actually have the Ebola. U.S. troops with training in infectious diseases test samples for presence of the virus, cutting the time it takes to determine whether a patient is infected from a few days to a few hours". The US military will also "help to distribute food aid" in Liberia.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...to-complete-ebola-treatment-units-in-liberia/

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/09/us-military-liberia-fight-ebola

Why is The Guardian going down the pan? Perhaps it is because it is a dishonest newspaper which publishes dishonest articles by dishonest writers.

 

[SikhWarrioR]

The Guardian's support for blair's nu-labour and the fib-dimocrats says all you need to know why it is such a shit paper

 

[Sea Star]

I think the scales were lifted from my eyes during the post 9/11 period and the coverage of the war in Iraq. For a short time I bought the Guardian and the Independent and gap between their coverage of the war was astonishing! I decided then to stop wasting my money and just bought the Indie.

 

[J Ed]

Graunid article wanking over Nick Clegg's wife, the rich daughter of a Francoist mayor.

BTW I totally missed this puff piece from the Graunid actually praising the Francoist mayor. Some absolutely shockingly far-right history is cited in that article uncontested by any opposing views or reality,

"It is complicated," said Enrique Berzal, professor of history at the University of Valladolid. "González was a classic hard-right figure. Democracy came about in Spain because pro-Francoists decided to move to democracy when they saw what was coming [after the dictator's death]. He was certainly no anti-fascist democrat, but nor was he a simple Francoist. His political culture was certainly not democratic. The recent history of Spain cannot be simply framed as good versus evil."

Nothing to do with increased militancy or a car bomb killing off Franco's appointed heir?

 

[teqniq]

This could have and possibly has been posted on the Pistorius thread, however I have not been taking part in it.

Simon Jenkins indulges in some vacuous drivel

Oscar Pistorius should not be going to jail

 

[PoorButNotAChav]

Coming in The Guardian as soon as someone manages to half-finish an article:

Oscar Pistorius got off lightly because he's a man

Oscar Pistorius got off lightly because he's white

Oscar Pistorius got off lightly because he's rich

Oscar Pistorius got off lightly because the black female judge has internalised racism and misogyny and is no better than Jeremy Clarkson and that bloke who was kicked out of UKIP

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Has The Apprentice ruined what it means to be an entrepreneur?
A poll has shown a generally negative impression of the business world, and reality TV could be part of the problem

http://www.theguardian.com/media-ne.../apprentice-dragons-den-business-entrepreneur

What could possibly have contributed to a public perception that entrepreneurs are thick venal arseholes? Reality TV gameshows, must be it.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Never mind the politics of that article 3% of over 55s and upto 10% of 18+ people think corporations are bad therefore that represents a big shift caused by two TV shows? It's hard to point to a single sensible or interesting point in that article

 

[brogdale]

Unless gideon has developed an overly long, hairier toned and tanned arm....I'd say he wasn't "using" a nail gun there, but merely hanging onto it whilst a worker used it.

 

[DotCommunist]

probably holding the workers arm back its a metaphor for something.

 

[brogdale]

probably holding the workers arm back its a metaphor for something.

Nail gun; gideon's smug fizzog....I'd say that's an opportunity missed.