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Why the Guardian is going down the pan!

Pickman's model said:
it's obviously a fake as no one could honestly believe the guardian would really have a north of england editor. it doesn't exist for them.
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Not only do they have one but the article Trevor Bastard has parodied isn't that much better.

www.theguardian.com

'Imagine the state we’d be in if Corbyn had been in charge': the view from the 'red wall'

Working-class voters in Leigh do not regret voting for Tories after listening to chancellor’s summer statement
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
 
billy_bob said:
I doubt their cringe-inducing new 'The Power of Touch' series will be the thing that turns it around for them. Unless they can somehow monetise it into a chart-topping power ballad.
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I saw one piece but I didn't realise it was a series.

www.theguardian.com

Welcome to the Guardian's Power of Touch series

Stories and poems full of loss, longing and tenderness
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

...many of us are unable to make physical contact with our ageing parents, our children, our dear friends, our family members in other parts of the country or the world. Many of us are stuck in our houses, or behind masks and gowns or plastic shields. Sadly, we are becoming afraid of each other; our bodies, dangerous and lethal. Fear relies on silence and othering. Fear has allowed our neighbourhoods to become islands. Fear of touch, of not enough, of absence.
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Yeah, there is this virus around btw? It's not just some acausal "fear" that's going on here. But hell why not have a whole load of articles about how great touching is when most people are even less able to than usual - I bet that will help.

This would annoy me even without lockdown.
 
Good news for the environment is that some of the weekend lifestyle bumpf is going

After massive redundancies they've managed to reduce their costs by nothing:



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fuck me - that blues brothers article. The film is the polar opposite of "cultural appropriation" - it does a brilliant job of showcasing fantastic R&B music in the context of urban america, putting the music's originators front and centre and re-introducing them to a whole new audience - and still does this to this day.
And the blues brothers band is made up of two thirds of booker t and the mgs (the stax house band)
As a fourteen year old watching this film was blown away by james brown and aretha and who the fuck is this cab calloway geezer? - he's ace!
Who cares about the plot? Its a high energy, ultra daft, bonkers romp that is really just hilarious filler for a celebration of some of the greatest music and artists known to humanity.

The whole "white people stole black music" argument is so fucking trite. People like pat boone doing toned down versions of black R&B (often at the expense of the original artists - by releasing them at the same time) - yes - shitty wank.
But jazz and blues and gospel (itself heavily influenced by european hymnal) were intermingling with european folk and bluegrass and country up and down the mississippi delta for many decades - all borrowing each other and creating an extraordinary cultural breeding ground that laid the foundations for last 70 years of popular music. People like Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis grew up with this music - it was as much theirs as anyone elses - the music of the poor - black and white.
In the 60s, working class kids in britian latched onto the blues as outsider music and developed their own take on it - whilst (mostly) taking care to celebrate and promote its originators.

Anyway - probably needs its own thread.
 
platinumsage said:
Good news for the environment is that is that some of the weekend lifestyle bumpf is going

After massive redundancies they've managed to reduce their costs by nothing:



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Anyone who deserves it getting sacked (i.e. nearly all of the comment people)? Anyone who shouldn't go (Sid Lowe) getting sacked?

In the 90s and 2000s I loved the hard copy of the Guide. Surplus to requirements now.
 
belboid said:
Steve Bell has apparently been sacked. Not part of the 180 job redundancies, just a ‘fuck off’
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Too expensive and/or too outspoken, perhaps?

If I've learned one thing about redundancies, it's that it doesn't matter how good at your job you are, if management decide you're gone, you're gone.
 
Kaka Tim said:
fuck me - that blues brothers article. The film is the polar opposite of "cultural appropriation" - it does a brilliant job of showcasing fantastic R&B music in the context of urban america, putting the music's originators front and centre and re-introducing them to a whole new audience - and still does this to this day.
And the blues brothers band is made up of two thirds of booker t and the mgs (the stax house band)
As a fourteen year old watching this film was blown away by james brown and aretha and who the fuck is this cab calloway geezer? - he's ace!
Who cares about the plot? Its a high energy, ultra daft, bonkers romp that is really just hilarious filler for a celebration of some of the greatest music and artists known to humanity.

The whole "white people stole black music" argument is so fucking trite. People like pat boone doing toned down versions of black R&B (often at the expense of the original artists - by releasing them at the same time) - yes - shitty wank.
But jazz and blues and gospel (itself heavily influenced by european hymnal) were intermingling with european folk and bluegrass and country up and down the mississippi delta for many decades - all borrowing each other and creating an extraordinary cultural breeding ground that laid the foundations for last 70 years of popular music. People like Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis grew up with this music - it was as much theirs as anyone elses - the music of the poor - black and white.
In the 60s, working class kids in britian latched onto the blues as outsider music and developed their own take on it - whilst (mostly) taking care to celebrate and promote its originators.

Anyway - probably needs its own thread.
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Sounds like a good idea for a thread :)
 
equationgirl said:
Too expensive and/or too outspoken, perhaps?

If I've learned one thing about redundancies, it's that it doesn't matter how good at your job you are, if management decide you're gone, you're gone.
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"Redundancy" means the role is redundant, so it shouldn't matter how good someone is.
 
Kaka Tim said:
The whole "white people stole black music" argument is so fucking trite. People like pat boone doing toned down versions of black R&B (often at the expense of the original artists - by releasing them at the same time) - yes - shitty wank.
But jazz and blues and gospel (itself heavily influenced by european hymnal) were intermingling with european folk and bluegrass and country up and down the mississippi delta for many decades - all borrowing each other and creating an extraordinary cultural breeding ground that laid the foundations for last 70 years of popular music. People like Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis grew up with this music - it was as much theirs as anyone elses - the music of the poor - black and white.
In the 60s, working class kids in britian latched onto the blues as outsider music and developed their own take on it - whilst (mostly) taking care to celebrate and promote its originators.
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Elvis was racist. I have that on the authority of a bunch of white people born long after Elvis died so we don't need to listen to the opinions of the black musicians who actually knew and worked with Elvis.
 
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