Why the Guardian is going down the pan!

[DaveCinzano]

I want get a dig at the independent - they had a headline which said 'puniched' for a good few hours yesterday.

Deserves some gunishment

 

[ViolentPanda]

Deserves some gunishment

Maybe they were talking about Anna Punich, the hurdler? Two-Beards is known for promoting his "friends" in Daddy's papers.

 

[DotCommunist]

Some amount of anti-working-class pish been written about the Celtic-Rangers game yesterday, including this fine example in the Guardian:

Middle class bedwetting

And here is my reply to Libby Brooks.

the last line is particularly gold.

save us andy!

 

[DaveCinzano]

Polly Toynbee urges readers to donate to GuardianAid:

http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/conte...ecarious-guardian-not-mentioning-£850m-it-has

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Polly Toynbee urges readers to donate to GuardianAid:

http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/content/polly-toynbee-urges-readers-dig-deep-support-precarious-guardian-not-mentioning-£850m-it-has

The person whining about this is Mick Hume, News Group's pet comedy LMer with ten years of Times columns under his belt. So not entirely disinterested, then.

 

[butchersapron]

In what way is he interested?

 

[Maurice Picarda]

In what way is he interested?

It's helpful to the Times to say snide things about the Guardian's tawdry schemes for monetising readers.

 

[butchersapron]

It's helpful to the Times to say snide things about the Guardian's tawdry schemes for monetising readers.

Oh right. So you've told us that someone in the media is interested in the media. Has an interest in the media. Is a direct voice for owners of other media. Another great contribution. Leaving aside the terrible shadow that Hume's words cast upon all semi-living media things for now.

 

[Orang Utan]

bonus points for mentioning hari in a sympathetic manner
http://www.theguardian.com/society/...grades-adderall-modafinil?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
(why the pictures of students?)

 

[Belushi]

Evidence free 'analysis' on how the Kremlin is behind everything happening in Europe at the moment

Senior European and American diplomats and officials are also convinced, without supplying hard evidence, that the Russians have infiltrated, or are helping to fund, NGOs campaigning in Europe against fracking and the proposed free trade agreement between the EU and the US, and that they have also been quietly encouraging the Scottish and Catalan secessionist movements in Britain and Spain.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/20...lin-is-making-its-presence-felt-across-europe

 

[Pickman's model]

surprised no one picked up on this little gem http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/feb/17/how-to-eat-pancakes

 

[DaveCinzano]

surprised no one picked up on this little gem http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/feb/17/how-to-eat-pancakes

It's self-evidently crêpe

 

[treelover]

Evidence free 'analysis' on how the Kremlin is behind everything happening in Europe at the moment



http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/16/russian-resurgence-how-the-kremlin-is-making-its-presence-felt-across-europe

Bizzarro!

 

[rekil]

Guardian Live: Doc Sundays - Maidan

Guardian Doc Sundays brings together some of the most compelling feature length documentaries from around the world, in a double bill every month with a new Guardian commissioned short documentary. We open our season with Pretty Radical the remarkable feature documentary Maidan.

Maidan chronicles a civil uprising against the regime of president Yanukovych which took place in Kiev (Ukraine) in the winter of 2013/14. The film follows the progress of the revolution: from peaceful rallies, half a million strong, in the Maidan square, to the bloody street battles between the protestors and riot police. Maidan is a portrait of an awakening nation, rediscovering its identity.

Interesting use of language in the blurb.

 

[rekil]

Why not make it a weekend to die for with this unmissable "How to write longform journalism with Polly Toynbee" masterclass.

 

[andysays]

It's self-evidently crêpe

Whoever wrote it deserves to be battered

 

[DaveCinzano]

Why not make it a weekend to die for with this unmissable "How to write longform journalism with Polly Toynbee" masterclass.

For half that price I'll tell you all there is to know.

Spoiler: How to write longform journalism

Use longerer words. And more of them.

 

[Santino]

Why has everyone started using the word 'longform'? Who started it?

 

[killer b]

I've only seen it bandied around the last few years. smell of yank to me.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Why has everyone started using the word 'longform'? Who started it?

Journalism courses. New entrants these days do a year of postgrad jargon training before they are let loose on freesheets and trade magazines, and some of the pseudo-academic terminology sticks. They don't pick up basic literacy, though.

 

[DaveCinzano]

They don't pick up basic literacy, though.

I think you'll find that the current preferred term is Hansen's Disease.

 

[belboid]

interesting piece on the Scott Trust, and the Grauniads refusal to cover HSBC's illegal operations within the UK - http://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2015-03-03/hsbc-and-the-sham-of-guardians-scott-trust/

 

[Maurice Picarda]

interesting piece on the Scott Trust, and the Grauniads refusal to cover HSBC's illegal operations within the UK - http://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2015-03-03/hsbc-and-the-sham-of-guardians-scott-trust/

The Guardian is not owned by a trust at all. In 2008, “the trust was replaced with a limited company” that was accordingly re-named “The Scott Trust Limited.” Though not a trust at all, but simply a profit-making company, it is still referred to frequently as ‘The Scott Trust,’ promulgating the widely-held but mistaken belief in the Guardian’s inherently benign ownership structure. … The problem, of course, is that the Guardian functions under the same sort of corporate structure as any other major media company.

Srs lol at "profit making".

 

[el-ahrairah]

have we had this gem?

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2011/feb/15/consider-lard

 

[Pickman's model]

here's a proper gem http://www.theguardian.com/artandde...ortrait-monica-lewinsky-deserves-more-respect

 

[Orang Utan]

have we had this gem?

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2011/feb/15/consider-lard

i enjoyed that. mmmm lard....

 

[campanula]

My daughter and I watched in amazement while her Romanian friend cut a fat SLICE of neat lard, sprinkled salt and pepper on it and daintily placed it between 2 slices of bread. I vaguely remember bread and dripping, but it was spread thinly on hot toast,
Having said that, the best shortcrust pastry is always half lard, half butter, so yep, there will usually be a packet in my fridge.

 

[brogdale]

Nearly time for this sort of stuff again....

Citizens have votes. Newspapers do not. However, if the Guardian had a vote in the 2010 general election it would be cast enthusiastically for the Liberal Democrats....The vote would be cast with some important reservations and frustrations. Yet it would be cast for one great reason of principle above all.

The Liberal Democrats and Labour should, of course, have explored much earlier and more explicitly how they might co-operate to reform the electoral system. During the campaign, and especially since the final leaders' debate, the appetite for co-operation has clearly increased and is increasing still. Mr Clegg's Guardian interview today underscores the potential for more productive engagement with Labour and is matched by fresh, untribal thinking from his potential partners.

Mr Cameron offers a new and welcome Toryism, quite different from what Michael Howard offered five years ago. His difficulty is not that he is the "same old Tory". He isn't. The problem is that his revolution has not translated adequately into detailed policies, and remains highly contradictory. A Cameron government might not be as destructive to Britain as the worst Tory regimes of the past. But it is not the right course for Britain.

Trapped in the arid, name-calling two-party politics of the House of Commons, Nick Clegg has seldom had the chance to shine. Released into the daylight of equal debate, he has given the other two parties the fright of their lives.

A newspaper that is proudly rooted in the liberal as well as the labour tradition – and whose advocacy of constitutional reform stretches back to the debates of 1831-32 – cannot ignore such a record. If not now, when? The answer is clear and proud. Now.

Still impressive; no?

 

[campanula]

Good grief, noooo

 

[ViolentPanda]

My daughter and I watched in amazement while her Romanian friend cut a fat SLICE of neat lard, sprinkled salt and pepper on it and daintily placed it between 2 slices of bread. I vaguely remember bread and dripping, but it was spread thinly on hot toast,
Having said that, the best shortcrust pastry is always half lard, half butter, so yep, there will usually be a packet in my fridge.

Ukrainians are worse. They eat salo (salted pork fat).