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Why the Guardian is going down the pan!

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there's a revolting arse-lick piece on Gordon Brown today. I can't find it on the website though. Probably for the best, it'd doubtless make you a bit sick.
 
The Guardian website is mostly click bait these days, I'm much more likely to read the food section than the actual news section.

CiF can be a laugh sometimes, had to have a giggle at this one....

http://www.theguardian.com/commenti...lton-lack-popularity-black-formula-1-champion

I particularly like this piece of shity backwards thinking in the comments:

Nope, its cos Hamilton as a tax avoider particularly sticks in the craw because of his very humble ( council estate I believe ) upbringing. More than most of the other millionaire tax avoiders he benefitted from state benefits, schooling, NHS etc and you would have hoped that he especially would want to pay back into the system that he so benefitted from.
 
In the same cheesy vein. Rubbish BBC piece on Cuba.

When I told Natasha about my mad shopping dash for Cuba, we remembered her own first trip abroad, to Britain, a year before the Soviet Union disintegrated.

My mother had taken her out one day for the weekly food shop. "I remember there were all these different cheeses and 10 types of everything." Natasha laughed, recalling her first encounter with a Western supermarket. At first I was excited - then I started crying my eyes out.
 
A few years ago in a provincial part of neoliberal Russia I bought a packet of Turkish artisan counterfeit Marlboro Lights from small a shop made out of an old rusting shipping container.

The Soviet Union was shit, mind.
 
"Ask yourself, Britain, if there is another country on this earth that insists on noting what school a 65-year-old man attended in any news story about him; and then tell yourself, there is none. All countries are interested in status – in the US this is usually expressed by a fascination with money and, increasingly, fame. But only in Britain is there this kind of paralysing myopia where a person is defined eternally by where their parents sent them to school, where snobbery and inverse snobbery clash with equal force and explode into a fiery ball of angry arguments involving such seemingly random – but actually deeply significant – things like grammar schools and John Lewis."
Hadley Freeman
 
Freeman, no one is actually interested in what school people attended being included in news stories. Well, no one apart from the editors and journalists in your little bubble. And they are, much like yourself, overwhelmingly products and of privilege. So the reply to your oh so original question is that it's you and your bubble and its self-obsession that makes it happen, no one else - and you can be damn sure it's only an elite schooling that's mentioned in the sort of cases you are writing about.
 
Well apparently they're running at a massive loss and now make most of their money from ads so it comes as no surprise, si those of us using ad blockers can pat ourselves on the back for the small part we are playing in their eventual ruin.
 
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/29/is-it-right-public-schools-charitable-status
Only a guardian journalist could fuck up an argument against private education. Anyone with half a brain could have destroyed the pro-private school twit's fatuous argument but Cadwalladr just makes an even more fatuous case against.
This tickled me:
"Journalism, like politics, like law, like the cabinet, like the shadow cabinet, like the City, is dominated by Oxbridge graduates. Even the Guardian/Observer is." :D
 
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