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Why the Guardian is going down the pan!

This could have been readable but it's obvious where it's headed from the For Sama bit on.

Bait is a thoroughly impressive portrait of authentic social strife but, unless you are Cornish, you don’t have to take sides.
Bombshell dares to open the lid on harassment in the workplace. Yet Harvey Weinstein no longer poses a threat: he is on trial. #MeToo no longer needs to be promoted; perhaps it is instead time to interrogate the phenomenon.

He gets there in the end. Fillums aren't reactionary enough.
Perhaps the explanation lies in the new McCarthyism that has seized the film world. To address controversial questions, you have to be prepared to challenge the prevailing orthodoxy. Nowadays, however, all must pledge allegiance to the implacable dictates of the progressive creed.

Conveniently, there is no mention of the fantastic Honeyland.
 
This could have been readable but it's obvious where it's headed from the For Sama bit on.




He gets there in the end. Fillums aren't reactionary enough.


Conveniently, there is no mention of the fantastic Honeyland.
His review of Hereditary should really be read alongside this
 
This could have been readable but it's obvious where it's headed from the For Sama bit on.




He gets there in the end. Fillums aren't reactionary enough.


Conveniently, there is no mention of the fantastic Honeyland.

Jesus Christ - did they accidentally publish an article from the Mail?

Highlights:


Little Women, Wild Rose, Frozen II and Judy are keen to assure you that women are full-blooded, feisty achievers, and not the weedy sissies you may have thought them. Harriet brings us the news that this is even more the case if they are women of colour. OK, but didn’t we get the memo on this a while back? Bombshell dares to open the lid on harassment in the workplace. Yet Harvey Weinstein no longer poses a threat: he is on trial. #MeToo no longer needs to be promoted; perhaps it is instead time to interrogate the phenomenon.

Whether the Chinese are like westerners or different from them is a key question of our time. Are we all the same under the skin, aspiring to live the same kind of lives?

Perhaps the explanation lies in the new McCarthyism that has seized the film world. To address controversial questions, you have to be prepared to challenge the prevailing orthodoxy. Nowadays, however, all must pledge allegiance to the implacable dictates of the progressive creed.

PC gone mad!!!!

And from everything he writes, there's tons of politics in the Oscar nominated movies. It's just not the type of politics that he approves of. It's also not idpol, as he implies, just because a few movies that have women in them have been nominated.

He even phrases his praise for Juno as if the award for best original screenplay Oscar for Juno to the director, who was male, rather than the woman who actually wrote the screenplay and won the award. And he suggests that Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri wouldn't do well today. Unlike that long-ago time of two years ago.
 


"This is Race to Dinner. A white woman volunteers to host a dinner in her home for seven other white women – often strangers, perhaps acquaintances. (Each dinner costs $2,500, which can be covered by a generous host or divided among guests.) A frank discussion is led by co-founders Regina Jackson, who is black, and Saira Rao, who identifies as Indian American. They started Race to Dinner to challenge liberal white women to accept their racism, however subconscious. “If you did this in a conference room, they’d leave,” Rao says. “But wealthy white women have been taught never to leave the dinner table.”

Rao and Jackson believe white, liberal women are the most receptive audience because they are open to changing their behavior. They don’t bother with the 53% of white women who voted for Trump. White men, they feel, are similarly a lost cause. “White men are never going to change anything. If they were, they would have done it by now,” Jackson says."

Bizarre and shit, as urban once defined EastEnders
 
The Guardian is pandering to right wingers in a more shameless way than usual:


Every excuse possible for the BAFTAs and the film industry in general not nominating people who aren't rich white men. Yeah, it's sort of id pol, but this is a real problem that shouldn't be lumped in with it.

Plus a call for Prince William to resign for mentioning it. The writer clarifies that he doesn't mean that he thinks William should resign from being heir to the throne, but that's kinda like starting an argument with I'm not racist but.

Prince fucking William is more left wing than a Guardian writer.
 
The Guardian is pandering to right wingers in a more shameless way than usual:


Every excuse possible for the BAFTAs and the film industry in general not nominating people who aren't rich white men. Yeah, it's sort of id pol, but this is a real problem that shouldn't be lumped in with it.

Plus a call for Prince William to resign for mentioning it. The writer clarifies that he doesn't mean that he thinks William should resign from being heir to the throne, but that's kinda like starting an argument with I'm not racist but.

Prince fucking William is more left wing than a Guardian writer.
It's the same freak.
 
When this thread started (10 years ago!) I bought the Guardian everyday and the Observer on a Sunday, some days I bought 2 newspapers (Independent or Times was often a second purchase). I stopped buying daily papers years ago, I look at the website, and maybe buy the paper 20 times a year if that (usually when I'm on holiday). I don't subscribe to any newspaper websites - I look at the Guardian website, and might click on an Indy link . I can't understand why newspapers are still being printed tbh - people younger than me won't be buying papers, and people older than me may still be but they are nearing retirement or retired or dead :hmm:.
 
Isn't it worth looking at newspaper websites in order to see what other people are thinking? (Or what the papers want their readers to think?)
 
Isn't it worth looking at newspaper websites in order to see what other people are thinking? (Or what the papers want their readers to think?)

Off topic
Your local library probably subscribes to PressReader where you can access as many daily papers as you want with no paywall or subscription. Just your library card number.
 
Or Proquest.

Actually, I should change all my passwords to my library card number, as I seem to remember it better than the ones I make up.
 
When this thread started (10 years ago!) I bought the Guardian everyday and the Observer on a Sunday, some days I bought 2 newspapers (Independent or Times was often a second purchase). I stopped buying daily papers years ago, I look at the website, and maybe buy the paper 20 times a year if that (usually when I'm on holiday). I don't subscribe to any newspaper websites - I look at the Guardian website, and might click on an Indy link . I can't understand why newspapers are still being printed tbh - people younger than me won't be buying papers, and people older than me may still be but they are nearing retirement or retired or dead :hmm:.

I got a smart phone in 2010 and I haven't bought a single newspaper since. Can't imagine spending £2 on a sunday paper, can get a book for that, madness
 
Did always enjoy the routine of taking the Observer to a cafe or pub of a Sunday and doing the crossword - like you say there's something satisfying doing it with pen and paper.
 
The rector of Eyam, believing it his duty to spare neighbouring towns from infection, persuaded his parishioners to take the astonishingly self-sacrificing step of sealing themselves off from the world. They would live or they would die, but nobody would leave until the sickness had burned itself out. One mother is said to have buried six of her children, yet by staying must have saved countless other women from the same fate.

It’s impossible to read the story of Eyam without wondering who on earth would be capable of such selflessness now. When it came to the crunch, how many of us would secretly have more in common with the local squire, who fled after the first few deaths and left his neighbours to their fate? Compared with 17th-century peasants, modern Britons simply aren’t enormously used to the idea of sacrifice for the supposed collective good.

So it’s lucky for us, then, that Covid-19 is nothing like the Black Death.


From now on I might be tempted to imagine that if the Guardian writers had a fancy dress party, they might all turn up as the rector of Eyam. But then leave early as the squire.
 

From now on I might be tempted to imagine that if the Guardian writers had a fancy dress party, they might all turn up as the rector of Eyam. But then leave early as the squire.
For many in precarious "employment"faced with exposure to the virus, selflessness and sacrifice will be an inevitable function of their status.

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