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Why the Guardian is going down the pan!

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I'm a lying twat and the Guardian still pays me to write articles, what are you going to do about it? Look at how smug I am, and no one hits me. Life is good.
 
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butchersapron said:
Here's the cached article. Jamie Doward as author.

Here's a typical claim by Madsen (not the names involved - Corsi etc)

Maybe they should all have to go on one of these? This one maybe?
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Jamie Doward is now claiming that something widely reported in 2010 (including in his own paper):

[it] has emerged that attempts to introduce a form of labelling were approved by the European parliament in June 2010.
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They do, i'm not kidding, get paid for this.

That observer article that he should have been fired over:
 
I was away for a while so forgive my tardiness in complaining about March the 11th. On this date, The Guardian couldn't be arsed commemorating the tenth anniversary of the Atocha bombings, which killed 191 people, and instead had "Tehran Street Style - In Pictures" and an article about hipsters wearing monocles on the front page of the website.
 
DaveCinzano said:
Talking of Brockes (on the other thread)...

http://www.theguardian.com/commenti...once-solange-knowles-instagram-photos-scandal
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What about this? Oh god, LAMINATE floors. The shame. Fucking hell. My whole house is covered in cheap laminate and there's WOOD-CHIP on my walls. Maybe I shouldn't invite people round anymore.

"A single example, plucked at random from a lifetime's supply: years ago, after I'd been bickering with a friend who was visiting my flat in London, she fell silent for several minutes and then, pointing to my wooden floors, observed, "You know that floor's laminate, don't you?" (It was laminate. I'd been lying to myself for years that it was pine."

Move the fucking thing back to Manchester for god's sake.
 
I don't usually post on this thread, being resigned to the quiet subservience of the guardian class in the face of power. But this, this is an infomercial. Or a docuvertisement. Or some shite like that. It is about Renegade Professionals. And you need to read it. Because otherwise how will you respect these renegades who have risen among us? Or at least, how will you believe this horror was actually created by someone?

http://surface.theguardian.com/

Spoiler: it reads like a masterpiece from The Onion.
 
DotCommunist said:
it was still a strike denying anti working class rag even back in the olden days
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Really? Bah. I had a romantic notion that it was once good.

The series of articles telling you "How to dress/eat" are possibly the very worst of all now. How you could cook that up in a meeting room and not think it was patronising is beyond me. The way we are all supposed to eat and drink is the way better-off people in a 5 mile radius of N1 do by the way.

No wait, my least favourite thing is the Guardian's attitude to the North. The articles that read as if the journo has just arrived in territory as unfamiliar as the Amazon with "Bye 'eck!" and "Grim up North" comedy headlines. Articles about the East End never have "slaaaaaaaaaag" or "right knees up" in the headline though, becaue it would be crass to take the piss out of wonderful London of course. London is one of just two important cities in the world, the other being New York. Knowing this makes for a marvellously broad appreciation of world media, culture and events.
 
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Favelado said:
Really? Bah. I had a romantic notion that it was once good.

The series of articles telling you "How to dress/eat" are possibly the very worst of all now. How you could cook that up in a meeting room and not think it was patronising is beyond me. The way we are all supposed to eat and drink is the way better-off people in a 5 mile radius of N1 do by the way.

No wait, my least favourite thing is the Guardian's attitude to the North. The articles that read as if the journo has just arrived in territory as unfamiliar as the Amazon with "Bye 'eck!" and "Grim up North" comedy headlines. Articles about the East End never have "slaaaaaaaaaag" or "right knees up" in the headline though, becaue it would be crass to take the piss out of wonderful London of course. London is one of just two important cities in the world of course, the other being New York. Knowing this makes for a marvellously broad appreciation of world media, culture and events.
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They have 2 northern reporters now, down from 90 not too long ago.
 
Favelado said:
Really? Bah. I had a romantic notion that it was once good.

The series of articles telling you "How to dress/eat" are possibly the very worst of all now. How you could cook that up in a meeting room and not think it was patronising is beyond me. The way we are all supposed to eat and drink is the way better-off people in a 5 mile radius of N1 do by the way.

No wait, my least favourite thing is the Guardian's attitude to the North. The articles that read as if the journo has just arrived in territory as unfamiliar as the Amazon with "Bye 'eck!" and "Grim up North" comedy headlines. Articles about the East End never have "slaaaaaaaaaag" or "right knees up" in the headline though, becaue it would be crass to take the piss out of wonderful London of course. London is one of just two important cities in the world, the other being New York. Knowing this makes for a marvellously broad appreciation of world media, culture and events.
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the beeb are just as bad for the london centrism. I wonder how much we are paying for beeb minions to do the london-to-media city every day?

And some of their 'talent' quit rather than relocate outside of holy Londinium !
 
i'm very disappointed by this thread as it seems to me that the guardian has not as such "gone down the pan" as it has continued its auld practices. in addition, the thread doesn't say WHY it's got worse (if it has), only HOW it has failed to reach some posters' standards. b-: must try harder.
 
Favelado said:
Great feedback. Please everyone, let's make sure we're satisfying Pickman's Model. Let's get our priorities right here.
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it's not about satisfying me, it's whether you want a thread which shows that the guardian is a shit newspaper (which isn't really news) or whether you want a thread that says WHY it is a shit newspaper, which if this one is, it is so only tangentially. or you could simply post up your usual cack-handed bollocks which impresses no one but you.
 
Pickman's model said:
it's not about satisfying me, it's whether you want a thread which shows that the guardian is a shit newspaper (which isn't really news) or whether you want a thread that says WHY it is a shit newspaper, which if this one is, it is so only tangentially. or you could simply post up your usual cack-handed bollocks which impresses no one but you.
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It's absolutely fine to have a thread that criticises the Guardian in any which way U75 posters feel. That's what it now is.
 
Brainaddict said:
I don't usually post on this thread, being resigned to the quiet subservience of the guardian class in the face of power. But this, this is an infomercial. Or a docuvertisement. Or some shite like that. It is about Renegade Professionals. And you need to read it. Because otherwise how will you respect these renegades who have risen among us? Or at least, how will you believe this horror was actually created by someone?

http://surface.theguardian.com/

Spoiler: it reads like a masterpiece from The Onion.
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Ew. I spotted 'Vibrant' and 'Street Food' within about 30 seconds and backed slowly away.
 
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