The Guardian

[balaks]

I used to read the Guardian religiously - now it is full of utter tripe with clickbait articles and a total lack of direction - it's a shadow of it's former self and actually makes me angry reading it now.

It's very much a London centric paper nowadays and if you read it you would think that nothing exists out of the city - a paper taken over by trendy London hipsters who haven't a braincell between them.

 

[Fingeredmouse]

I used to read the Guardian religiously - now it is full of utter tripe with clickbait articles and a total lack of direction - it's a shadow of it's former self and actually makes me angry reading it now.

It's very much a London centric paper nowadays and if you read it you would think that nothing exists out of the city - a paper taken over by trendy London hipsters who haven't a braincell between them.

I agree with your general point, although it's still my primary news source, but I think it's been fairly London centric since the 90s and always a bit hipster (although that would have been an odd 1930s retro reference at the time).

 

[Wednesday at Stoke]

I used to read the Guardian religiously - now it is full of utter tripe with clickbait articles and a total lack of direction - it's a shadow of it's former self and actually makes me angry reading it now.

It's very much a London centric paper nowadays and if you read it you would think that nothing exists out of the city - a paper taken over by trendy London hipsters who haven't a braincell between them.

Their weekly long reads and investigative journalism are still the best for British news papers.

 

[balaks]

Their weekly long reads and investigative journalism are still the best for British news papers.

Some if it still very good I'd agree with that - it's all the other guff in it that frustrates me though.

 

[Sweet Square]

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https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/may/16/sorry-we-missed-you-review-ken-loach?CMP=share_btn_tw

And here is where my qualm arises. Many people will see this film as a portrayal of real issues facing people – not silly old Brexit, which only worries people in the London bubble. Does the director himself feel like this? I don’t know. But I can only say that the European Union is the modern-day nursery of employment rights, and outside it is where working people will find more cynicism, more cruelty, more exploitation, more economic isolation and more poverty. This brilliant film will focus minds.

 

[SteveJ]

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/may/25/spice-girls-review-nostalgia-live-croke-park-dublin

 

[Casanova85]

Their extreme naivete is closer to cynicism than stupidity, sometimes.


Still a decent lefty newspaper. I just stay the hell away from their opinion articles.

 

[SteveJ]

Formation dancing with space blankets – and other wild ways to climb a mountain

 

[Sweet Square]

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Also Google what is white liberal feminism ?

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The state of this papers.

 

[2cents]

That emoji article is classic guardian.

 

[Steven Seagull]

Reading a lot of their opinion pieces makes me sad. Such a huge amount of self loathing from some of the journalists.

 

[crappycraperson]

https://www.theguardian.com/comment...-sweep-hell-how-a-visa-scam-ruined-my-holiday

 

[DavidDeSchmikes]

That emoji article reminds me of another classic Guardian article from 2016....

 

[Alex99]

I featured in the guardian today (at least on the website). Bit weird reading a description of yourself and things you've said in print.

 

[Shane88]

That emoji article reminds me of another classic Guardian article from 2016....

I really do hate that fecking emoji. I associate it with cnuts. Probably because my boss is forever using it in a group-chat at the most unfunny shit.

 

[2 man midfield]

That emoji article reminds me of another classic Guardian article from 2016....

Please tell me that's satire

 

[DavidDeSchmikes]

Please tell me that's satire

Here it is....
https://www.theguardian.com/comment...f-joy-emoji-worst-gloat-about-human-suffering

 

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Here it is....
https://www.theguardian.com/comment...f-joy-emoji-worst-gloat-about-human-suffering

Oh god she looks like a Guardian writer. That smug face

 

[SteveJ]

 

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[berbatrick]

That emoji article reminds me of another classic Guardian article from 2016....

Critical support for the Guardian in its fight against that atrocity

 

[Mr Pigeon]

Reading a lot of their opinion pieces makes me sad. Such a huge amount of self loathing from some of the journalists.

They have also stopped allowing user comments on most of these opinion pieces. Because they don't want a debate, they just want to shout from their soapbox.

 

[Reddy Rederson]

They have also stopped allowing user comments on most of these opinion pieces. Because they don't want a debate, they just want to shout from their soapbox.

Did they ever get a debate, or was the comments section just twitter with more character space?

 

[FlawlessThaw]

Comments pages aren't for debates, it's just an excuse for cnuts to have a forum to be cnuts.

 

[nimic]

They have also stopped allowing user comments on most of these opinion pieces. Because they don't want a debate, they just want to shout from their soapbox.

The people who post in comment sections of newspaper articles are usually shitty people with shitty opinions.

 

[SteveJ]

 

[Sweet Square]

For once, I had time to spend 15 minutes on my teeth. And boy, did it feel good

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeand...-jane-parkinson-15-minutes-on-teeth-feel-good

These tiny grooming actions we perform can somehow make a big difference when we feel crap. Taking a long shower, slapping on face cream – I’m not saying that having the teeth of Liverpool’s Roberto Firmino is gonna fix all your problems in life, but it does feel good. It does, somehow, make a glass of water taste purer. It does – look, I don’t make the rules – fill one with a sense of a wholesome resetting.

 

[Wednesday at Stoke]

For once, I had time to spend 15 minutes on my teeth. And boy, did it feel good

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeand...-jane-parkinson-15-minutes-on-teeth-feel-good

Looks like the woman just discovered flossing.

 

[dumbo]

I find that a simple peach pantsuit goes well with deprivation.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

I find that a simple peach pantsuit goes well with deprivation.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

I really do hate that fecking emoji. I associate it with cnuts. Probably because my boss is forever using it in a group-chat at the most unfunny shit.

Same. I use the non-crying laughing emoji instead, on a point of principle.

 

[SteveJ]

Kiri Te Kanawa wore a £20 bedsheet as a skirt – should we all try duvet dressing?

 

[Pogue Mahone]

This is so so bad. They pay him money for this?!

 

[Fingeredmouse]

This is so so bad. They pay him money for this?!

Chiles just exudes an air of pathetic incompetence. Of course he had a whitey. He would, wouldn't he?

 

[SteveJ]

I dunno...I never read Chiles' columns, as I get bored just reading the titles.

 

[SteveJ]

Cockatoo choreographs his own dance moves

 

[horsechoker]

Cock-a-tooo too too, push pineapple shake the tree

 

[Stick]

Cock-a-tooo too too, push pineapple shake the tree

 

[Sweet Square]

This paper has lost its mind.

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[GhastlyHun]

This paper has lost its mind.

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What's wrong about this? (The headlines only, haven't read the article)