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Why the Guardian is going down the pan!

planetgeli said:
Some rich Tories are really rich shock!

Or did I miss something in this pointless article currently high on the front page of the website?

www.theguardian.com

Sunaks’ £5m Santa Monica flat offers sun, sea … and a pet spa

Penthouse owned by the chancellor’s wife, Akshata Murthy, will reportedly be the venue for couple’s Easter getaway
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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Its to reinforce the US and them between their readership and the Tories as well as showing how profligate the bloke is...Imagine spending 5mil on a holiday home in somewhere that isn't Tuscany
 
D'wards said:
Absolute sneery cunts. Why write an obituary like this? Are they trying to prove they are above pop culture or something?

www.theguardian.com

Tom Parker obituary

Low-key, witty singer of the Wanted who found a post-boyband career in reality TV and the vlogosphere
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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That is very snidely written. I could understand a usual dull Guardian article written that way, but that tone has no place in any obituary. For shame, Guardian.
 
It’s hard to place her class, because her upbringing was fluid – she’d be at boarding school in the term, and then spend the holidays at Butlin’s, where her mother had a concession.

Her early years were precarious, but in her early 20s she joined her family’s thriving holiday park business, which she later bought from her parents for undisclosed millions.
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Load of old fawning shit about exceptionally dull bizznisssperson.
 
Indeliblelink said:
Another quality article from Adrian Chiles
www.theguardian.com

Having a quiet drink, I eyed a group of lads nervously … and then I saw their manbags | Adrian Chiles

The Staffordshire posse were trying hard to exude menace. I found them rather sweet, writes Guardian columnist Adrian Chiles
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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see, i read that, on the basis of understanding that he had probably had a run in with a bunch of lads in a pub. And rather than front it and probably get some aggro thrown at him. He decides to write about it, safe in the knowledge that they probably don't read the guardian and he can get it off his chest. And it was 5 days ago so they probably forgot about it. "oi Daz, what was that bloke who was in the pub the other day?"
 
Boris Sprinkler said:
see, i read that, on the basis of understanding that he had probably had a run in with a bunch of lads in a pub. And rather than front it and probably get some aggro thrown at him. He decides to write about it, safe in the knowledge that they probably don't read the guardian and he can get it off his chest. And it was 5 days ago so they probably forgot about it. "oi Daz, what was that bloke who was in the pub the other day?"
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All his columns are like this, it's insane (and inane).
 
he's banging the editor so I imagine he's got his column as long as that's going on. I think he gets a lot of engagement too - he's always in the 'most read' bit.
 
D'wards said:
Absolute sneery cunts. Why write an obituary like this? Are they trying to prove they are above pop culture or something?

www.theguardian.com

Tom Parker obituary

Low-key, witty singer of the Wanted who found a post-boyband career in reality TV and the vlogosphere
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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By the time I read it they had felt the need to fuck around with it a bit:

This article was amended on 8 April 2022 to include details of Tom Parker’s campaigning and fundraising work for brain cancer research. Some revisions and additions were also made to better reflect the success of his band, The Wanted.
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Very easy to imagine some hack thinking they'll make name for themselves writing snide, acerbic obituaries that pull no punches. Like Charlie Brooker but with dead people instead of TV.
 
Well part of the problem is a broader problem with 'music journalism', a genre of writing I have long gone out of my way to avoid. Because its often facile, tribal, lazy and confrontational. There are obviously some good writers on the subject, but no shortage of shit ones.
 
Take for example this piece on Brian Eno from 2017 that I had the misfortune to read recently. This sort of piece seems to become a competition between the self-indulgence of the artist and that of the interviewer.

www.theguardian.com

Brian Eno: ‘We’ve been in decline for 40 years – Trump is a chance to rethink'

The revered producer has been at the centre of pop since the days of Roxy Music. But don’t ask him about the past – he’s more interested in how to reorder society
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
 
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