Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

enough going dark forever. there's not much dark about being a student.

It's pretty dark as it is though, any further and it would start to lurch into Nighty Night territory.

I bought the Guardian today.

Because I want to support the paper, at least a bit.

I went into a newsagent and the old fellow said: '£1.20 - new price'.

I counted out numerous coppers.

His presumed grandson counted them in, as though preparing to take over the shop one day, as he always does.

lol

Amanda Knox and her former Italian boyfriend

Yep, he's not italian any more!

Even the Mail employs a token leftie or two so I assume he's the Guardian's designated coalition cheerleader in the interests of balance. Still aggravating though, because he tends to appear as the man from the Guardian rather than an outlying columnist.

― I've been dancing since 9 and I'm tired and hungry (Dorianlynskey), Tuesday, February 8, 2011 4:37 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark

Julian Glover makes it official.
http://www.politicshome.com/uk/article/36967/cams_new_sam_seaborne_julian_glover.html

has to be a positive, he's so shit even at making the tory case for something

Julian is not to be confused with his namesake, the actor Julian Glover...who once played Darth Vader's sidekick in The Empire Strikes Back.

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/contributor/2007/09/28/julian_glover_140x140.jpg
Darth Vader's sidekick

http://cf1.imgobject.com/profiles/045/4c8fced07b9aa17b4b000045/julian-glover-original.jpg
Julian Glover

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/media/8835038/Guardian-could-open-shop-to-combat-losses.html

lolololololol

thought the brown rice concessions in London were already sewed up tbh

Echoing the other comments - it will be a day worth celebrating when the rotten egg of a newspaper that the guardian is goes out of business and hopefully we can see the end of political correctness, mass repartriations of immigrants, close down the bbc and withdraw from the EU.

I wonder if this also works in reverse: if Britain withdrew from the EU would the Guardian magically disappear?

thought the Lib Dems were against most of that stuff

in secret

i didn't realise their financial situation was that bad! oy.

no mention on this page of the fact that they ran the gaddafi picture above the fold? because i have to say, i did not think a lot of that

if the Graun goes then we lose the last voice of centre-Right dissent in UK journalism ;_;

Opinions of the ipad app? I'm on the fence, but the fact that I don't enjoy using it says more than anything else.

i think the basic design flaw is that it puts the guardian on your ipad

The shop idea smacks of desperation; can’t possibly see how that could work or function, especially somewhere’s that nowhere like Covent Garden. The only solution is for them to put up a paywall and never mind principles.

I think it's possible that the shop idea isn't, ahem, true.

Perhaps it's all being done through Positive Weather Solutions.

the caption on the main picture on the guardian's homepage currently reads:

Andy Williams, Larry Robison and Steven Grieveson committed shocking crimes, in California, Texas and Sunderland. Their parents take about the shock and sorrow

step yr game up, guardian.

quite a poor piece after the first one imo...also are they now doing news stories that ressemble the plots of recent movies?

Other actors, directors and writers are also creating esoteric, self-reflective and ironic work.

WES ANDERSON

Director Wes Anderson's Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Darjeeling Limited and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou have all featured his trademark style of stilted dialogue, long pauses and surreal plot twists.

DAVE EGGERS

Boston-born writer Dave Eggers shot to fame with his memoir titled A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, which is a classic hipster ironic statement.

ZOOEY DESCHANEL

Californian Zooey Deschanel has trademarked the goofy, gorgeous love interest look in films ranging from Elf to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to (500) Days of Summer.

MICHAEL CERA

No actor has perhaps typified the male "hipster" aesthetic as much as Canadian Michael Cera whose films include Juno, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and Youth in Revolt.

oh god

i enjoy the work of 3 of those hipster scumbags :(

If some of this lyricism sounds familiar, it is because July is perfecting the various themes and emotions associated with other "whimsical" and "ironic" artists, working especially in film. They would include actors like Michael Cera and Zooey Deschanel, who are both wildly popular with the "hipsters" of fashionable neighbourhoods such as Williamsburg in New York, Silver Lake in Los Angeles, Portland in Oregon and Hoxton in London.

missed out Greatfield in Hull.

god... what complete tools.

that new miranda july movie is absolutely wonderful, tbh.

Public Enemy's Chuck D famously called hip-hop "The Black CNN", in reference to its ability to help its audience make sense of the world.

However, if anyone, black or white, were to look to the multimillion selling Detroit hip-hop duo Insane Clown Posse as their main source of information, they might find this particular channel a little limited in its output.

ICP's 10 albums to date have been characterised by misogynistic sub-gangsta lyrics and cod-mystic circus "themes"; few would mistake this for reliable news content.

ICP - The White Sky News

yet another opinion that sounds like alan partridge. xpost

; few would mistake this for reliable news content.

; few would mistake this for reliable news content.

; few would mistake this for reliable news content.

; few would mistake this for reliable news content.

"An obituary of the film-maker George Kuchar was illustrated with a photograph that did not show him, as the caption said, but his twin brother, Mike (20 October, page 35)."

In 10 years, the 'little fat bloke' from Reading has become a comedy god. But after the 'mong' row, and on the eve of his new TV show Life's Too Short, have we fallen out of love with Ricky Gervais?

http://gu.com/p/3375e
unchecked guardian dadrock-dimwit-on-the-loose interviews UK "national treasure" (twee, mawkish) poet.
made me want to kill.
is this GCSE English for remedial school?
or are you adults?
step da fung UP!
worthless toss.
go advertise an iphone it's all you whores are good for

simon armitage is a dreadful poet. so fucking britpop

If Depp spends more than 183 days in France, he explains indignantly, he'd have to start paying income tax. "I'm certainly not ready to give up my American citizenship. You don't have to give up your American citizenship," he adds sarcastically, but then he'd have to pay tax in both countries, "so you essentially work for free."

And all of a sudden, he sounds exactly like your average corporate Middle America multimillionaire – anti-government, anti-tax and apparently oblivious to the part these twin monstrous affronts might play in creating a country where he doesn't have to worry about being mugged by crack dealers on every street.

Really if you want seventeen more years of Tory government keep printing drivel like this.

It does, indeed, surprise me to learn that someone who's made four Pirates of the Caribbean films cares about money.

Zing!

lol at being "mugged by crack dealers". Aitkenhead, I'm guessing?

Yeah, stupid, it's crack addicts that mug you not dealers

EMI Decca Stockaitkenhead it was, indeed.

that method of interspersing commentary on the interviewee's remarks (however stupid they may be) after the fact is infuriating, and something other Guardian hacks do too- Hattenstone springs to mind.

"I kept smiling at him, longingly, however...."

"...imagining how I could feed my crack habit with the bulging contents of his wallet."

I remember getting really cross about that technique when I was at the NME in the mid-80s: several writers would use it to gotcha interviewees after the fact. It's a real dick's trick IMO: pick them up on it t the time, going back to it if you don't want to break the flow -- and if you didn't think of it at the time (=you are as bad as they are), fkn say this. Don't abuse yr power: it guts any politics you profess. (Well, not any politics...)