Why the Guardian is going down the pan!
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kabbes
First intersubjective, then internalised
I don’t understand. What is the point of that article? Is it literally just to boast about what he’s got?
Yes. Another one of those. Showing off, sharing the dilemma and experience with those readers in the same or aspiring to be so, social strata.
Fucking awful - why is it even considered journalism? That cunt is just a latter-day Loadsamoney. Smug wanker.
not-bono-ever
meh
It could have been written as ...well you know... an article rather than an audit of how he profited from buying LA housing stock
I hope he loses The fucking lot
I hope he loses The fucking lot
Yeah. He has no redeeming features, going by that article. What an awful human.
"We examine real people’s lives and how they really spend it – not the rich and famous, but the extraordinary tales of ordinary working people and what money really means to them"
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JimW
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Yes, that's certainly the first consequence of Peterloo that needs highlighting
Mike Leigh's Peterloo: first trailer for drama about the notorious massacre
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
kabbes
First intersubjective, then internalised
The protesters were fighting for the right to have a newspaper that lists in laborious detail how a business owner spends his £150,000 per year.
mauvais
on reddit or something
Booming Hollywood voice over:
THEY LIVED IN A TIME... OF STRUGGLE.
THEY FOUGHT FOR REPRESENTATION.
BUT IT CAME...
<dur dur dur dur dun dun dundun>
... AT A HORRIBLE COST
<shrill voice> Hello I'm from The Guardian and you should all go back to work. Here's 100 new kale recipes!
Martin Kettle implores the English to show more humility and respect towards their neighbours. I specially enjoyed this bit:
'In Kirkcudbright, a nice town in Scotland, it was Scottish night as we arrived, and a bagpipe band straight out of a tourist brochure marched through the town as dusk fell. But the children who paraded with flags before the pipes arrived had Union Jacks as well as saltires, along with all the flags of Europe and beyond. The following evening, hundreds of people on horses “rode the marches” – a form of horseback pub crawl to commemorate the town’s burgh status – but all wearing the countryside riding kit you would see in Wiltshire."'
England must start to listen to its neighbours on these troubled isles | Martin Kettle
'In Kirkcudbright, a nice town in Scotland, it was Scottish night as we arrived, and a bagpipe band straight out of a tourist brochure marched through the town as dusk fell. But the children who paraded with flags before the pipes arrived had Union Jacks as well as saltires, along with all the flags of Europe and beyond. The following evening, hundreds of people on horses “rode the marches” – a form of horseback pub crawl to commemorate the town’s burgh status – but all wearing the countryside riding kit you would see in Wiltshire."'
England must start to listen to its neighbours on these troubled isles | Martin Kettle
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
that prick, I stopped reading him after his 'did the reformation cause brexit?' article. Phoning it in cunt
I thought this had to be a piss take but I don't think it is... (And surely Madonna was the original underwear as outerwearer, decades before Rihanna and Beyonce?)
Amphibious dressing: how swimwear became daywear
Amphibious dressing: how swimwear became daywear
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
hot air baboon
Well-Known Member
and decades before Madonna there was .....
I thought I’d check out their site on my phone to see what they had chosen for their top three most important stories.
This is what I was confronted with:
A nagging ad for their app, a support the Guardian banner and a massive popup plead box in bright yellow.
Reminds me of when the local rag devotes the entire front page to advertising. If your headlines aren’t headlines but buried on page 94 I shan’t bother trying to read you again.
This is what I was confronted with:
A nagging ad for their app, a support the Guardian banner and a massive popup plead box in bright yellow.
Reminds me of when the local rag devotes the entire front page to advertising. If your headlines aren’t headlines but buried on page 94 I shan’t bother trying to read you again.
JimW
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Followed their cricket update as the BBC one was playing up and whether by accident or design three out of four updates were their begging screed.
Combustible
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Are you using a VPN, it seems like the BBC website is blocked in China at the moment
JimW
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I haven't bothered to date; BBC is mostly blocked again but does work occasionally.
Combustible
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My impression is that the latest blocking has lasted longer than most other previous times, but I've not followed it closely. Surprised the Guardian has managed to stay unblocked so long, especially when a lot of American news sites have been blocked for quite a while.
You may not like it, but (among other things) it's a strategy that has changed their fortunes from haemoraging cash to the point of expected bankruptcy, to being expected to break even this year.
Journalism - Even the guardian's journalism - needs to be paid for, and since everyone moved their advertising over to Facebook and Google because of their superior targeting (90% of advertising spend pretty much disappeared overnight for most news orgs), some form of subscription is the only thing that is going to work. So it's a paywall or begging messages.
JimW
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Seems to come and go a bit as well but with no VPN hard to say when it's a block and when it's poor service when it's like that.
Kaka Tim
Half Arsed and Slapdash till I Die
Forget dream dinner party guests – choosing your nightmare companions is much more fun
tim dowling excels himself with yet another helping of dismal vapidity. He gets paid for this.
tim dowling excels himself with yet another helping of dismal vapidity. He gets paid for this.
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