Why the Guardian is going down the pan!

[butchersapron]

Awesome wells spotted in the comments - falling for some racist shit stirring about no whites signs in somali cafes and moaning about the buses.

 

[killer b]

it's good he's keeping busy.

 

[brogdale]

Awesome wells spotted in the comments - falling for some racist shit stirring about no whites signs in somali cafes and moaning about the buses.

it's good he's keeping busy.

...somewhere else.

 

[JTG]

Awesome wells spotted in the comments - falling for some racist shit stirring about no whites signs in somali cafes and moaning about the buses.

Remarkable to me how so many people manage to describe a Stapleton Road completely at variance with the one I walk up and down twice a day

Anyway - Easton, St Pauls, St Werburghs, Stokes Croft... what a vast swathe of Bristol our hero covers in his article. He expresses concern at the divisions in the city but seems unable to even mention Southmead, Lockleaze or Hartcliffe by name. Nice one Guardian for getting a new arrival to describe his city though - not sure they'd like mine so much

 

[brogdale]

Deflated Clegg back to full size as he hurtles towards margins of significance
Deputy prime minister has passed through his darkest hours to a state of gallows humour as coalition comes to an end

Clegg is a changed man. Late last year, he appeared to be shrinking daily and it seemed he would soon need help to climb on to the front benches. Now he has returned to almost full-size.

Just as he hurtles ever faster towards the margins of significance, he gives the impression of being, for the first time in years, a politician of something approaching gravitas. His tragedy is that no one is now listening to him. Not even in the Commons. He is teased and bullied by MPs on all sides.

oh my aching sides

 

[DaveCinzano]

Remarkable to me how so many people manage to describe a Stapleton Road completely at variance with the one I walk up and down twice a day

Yeah but BRITAIN'S MOST DANGEROUS STREET!11!1!!!

 

[JTG]

Yeah but BRITAIN'S MOST DANGEROUS STREET!11!1!!!

Groups of Somali men hanging around

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

lads all lads

 

[DaveCinzano]

Groups of Somali men hanging around

Youths up to no good

 

[J Ed]

Graunid headline describes human beings as 'bedblockers'

 

[benedict]

Graunid headline describes human beings as 'bedblockers'

Putting the term in inverted commas, while highlighting the systematic problems underlying the phenomenon - as outlined in the article - and relating it to marketization of social care.

Actually seems like one of the Guardian's better bits of output.

 

[JTG]

Putting the term in inverted commas, while highlighting the systematic problems underlying the phenomenon - as outlined in the article - and relating it to marketization of social care.

Actually seems like one of the Guardian's better bits of output.

Yeah, it's using NHS slang for them, I don't see it as something to complain at the Guardian about

I suspect some of you would be shocked at the way we talk about our jobs and the patients in my work

 

[Maurice Picarda]

The Guardian's rolling Paris shootings coverage features a minute's video of commemorative silence at the morning editorial conference, Rusbridger even gazing away from his iphone at one point. Later, it reported excitedly that security arrangements at Kings Place would possibly be reviewed.

Yes, keeping a rolling blog fresh is difficult, especially when there's little new information and much of it is unreliable (the blog reported last night that the suspects had been nicked). But you're a news organisation. You're not news. You're not intrinsically interesting. Learn the difference.

 

[JTG]

The Guardian's rolling Paris shootings coverage this morning included a minute's video of a one minute silence at the morning editorial conference, Rusbridger even gazing away from his iphone at one point. Later, it reported excitedly that security arrangements at Kings Place would possibly be reviewed.

Yes, keeping a rolling blog fresh is difficult, especially when there's little new information and much of it is unreliable (the blog reported last night that the suspects had been nicked). But you're a news organisation. You're not news. You're not intrinsically interesting. Learn the difference.

Journalists like feeling important bless 'em

 

[el-ahrairah]

Journalists like feeling important bless 'em

as if the guardian has ever failed to bend it's knee to power of any sort! if they get shot up by offended terrorists it'll be some of us, not al-quaeda!

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Journalists like feeling important bless 'em

Other news organisations don't do this. They don't sell tickets to let readers wander around their offices, or set up absurd coffee bars, or take internal spats public on the public news site. They corral and channel journalistic self-importance. At the Graun, it is unrestricted.

 

[JTG]

Other news organisations don't do this. They don't sell tickets to let readers wander around their offices, or set up absurd coffee bars, or take internal spats public on the public news site.

It is weirdly cultish isn't it? People were queuing up to praise Bell's cartoon on the site

 

[Pickman's model]

further to previous replies i don't think the guardian will go down the pan as it's too big a shit to fit in the pipe

 

[Pickman's model]

It is weirdly cultish isn't it? People were queuing up to praise Bell's cartoon on the site

"fools run in the same vein"

 

[Maurice Picarda]

It is weirdly cultish isn't it? People were queuing up to praise Bell's cartoon on the site

it's a cult with an unsustainable ratio of gurus to cultists, though.

 

[belboid]

or take internal spats public on the public news site.

the Mail certainly do that

 

[Maurice Picarda]

the Mail certainly do that

This sort of thing?

 

[Pickman's model]

as if the guardian has ever failed to bend it's knee to power of any sort! if they get shot up by offended terrorists it'll be some of us, not al-quaeda!

the difference between charlie hebdo and the guardian is that a charlie hebdo cartoonist had to be threatened and forced to enter the access code, a guardian journalist would volunteer the information.

 

[belboid]

This sort of thing?

far shittier. And more recently than eight years ago

 

[Maurice Picarda]

the difference between charlie hebdo and the guardian is that a charlie hebdo cartoonist had to be threatened and forced to enter the access code, a guardian journalist would volunteer the information.

Only if he or she could livetweet the shootings, to be fair. No deal otherwise.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

it's a cult with an unsustainable ratio of gurus to cultists, though.

That's the problem with the thrusting middle and upper middle classes. It's a bit like the Institute of Ideas in many ways.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

https://membership.theguardian.com/event/15196621504

Only a fiver to watch the Guardian's finest emote about the shootings. A quid off for loyalty card holders, which as all monies raised go to the victims' families, suggests that the cultists are a price-sensitive bunch.

 

[Zabo]

They are doing the Guardian Live on Censorship at this moment. I don't think they understand the terms irony or hypocrisy. The only thing missing is cucumber sandwiches.



Good to see Owen Jones get a good stuffing today in the Comments section..

http://www.theguardian.com/commenti...bdo-norway-islamophobia-france-anders-breivik

 

[Scumbaggio]

They are doing the Guardian Live on Censorship at this moment. I don't think they understand the terms irony or hypocrisy. The only thing missing is cucumber sandwiches.



Good to see Owen Jones get a good stuffing today in the Comments section..

http://www.theguardian.com/commenti...bdo-norway-islamophobia-france-anders-breivik

He could only wait about 24 hours before assuming the position of left wing caricature.

 

[belboid]

A third article on how to cook toast!

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jan/09/how-to-make-toast-the-jamie-oliver-way