Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

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aquacrunk was the kerlon of post-nuum genrenames, quality dismissed as pretention by the coarse and unthinking masses

dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Friday, 29 June 2012 18:41 (eleven years ago) link

also purple wow iirc

dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Friday, 29 June 2012 18:42 (eleven years ago) link

RIP

http://www.factmag.com/2012/06/27/various-artists-purple-legacy/

Number None, Friday, 29 June 2012 18:43 (eleven years ago) link

joker was the one that got away

dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Friday, 29 June 2012 18:46 (eleven years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Rather annoyed with the Guardian app for bunging a whacking great medal table in the middle of the home screen, with no option to remove it in the settings. I emailed them, and they just said it'll be taken down when the Olympics are over. No response about spoilering, or annoying people who don't give a toss about the Olympics.

Madchen, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 12:04 (eleven years ago) link

is there an equivalent of http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian (i.e. just the articles that appeared in the print edition) that doesn't look terrible ON IPHONE?

(note: i do not want to give the guardian any money until they stop publishing martin robbins)

caek, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 12:08 (eleven years ago) link

http://m.guardian.co.uk/ ???

koogs, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 12:46 (eleven years ago) link

thanks, but that's the current home page. i want the print edition, i.e. the page that changes once per day, not rolling news + commentbait like http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/24/harriet-harman-wrong-conservatives-feminists

caek, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 12:49 (eleven years ago) link

This should do the job for you, caek (third-party thing produced using the Guardian API)

http://guardian.gyford.com/

Alba, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 12:57 (eleven years ago) link

perfect! thanks!

caek, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 13:02 (eleven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Outdoing themselves here

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/aug/11/devastated-by-my-sons-tattoo

pandemic, Saturday, 11 August 2012 09:29 (eleven years ago) link

Whoops just noticed someone's already posted that to the not Onion thread.

pandemic, Saturday, 11 August 2012 09:32 (eleven years ago) link

Can see the value in their US coverage having a range of opinions but employing this guy isn't a particularly good look:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-news-blog/2012/aug/16/2011-gaza-flotilla-tweet-clarification

Temporarily Famous In The Czech Republic (ShariVari), Sunday, 19 August 2012 07:28 (eleven years ago) link

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/blog/2012/aug/22/prince-harry-royal-status

He could get as drunk as he likes and strip of all over the place –
just like any old toff. Zzzzz to that, we'd say.

this genuinely reads like it's written with ten-year-olds in mind

it's-a me, irl (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 23 August 2012 11:20 (eleven years ago) link

capitals in first par, closed window.

Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Thursday, 23 August 2012 11:21 (eleven years ago) link

Observer, but the first sentence is inexexcusable for getting to publication:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7123/7867366280_2fde44c86b_z.jpg

passive-aggressive display name (aldo), Sunday, 26 August 2012 21:32 (eleven years ago) link

It doesn't make sense!

Eyeball Kicks, Sunday, 26 August 2012 23:48 (eleven years ago) link

inexexcusable?

a bag of andy capp's hot fries (stevie), Monday, 27 August 2012 09:16 (eleven years ago) link

Yes, my editing is as bad as theirs.

passive-aggressive display name (aldo), Monday, 27 August 2012 09:33 (eleven years ago) link

I don't know about the readability of the sentence, my main worry (not sure if this is also the point aldo was making) is that it's surely wrong to say "revamped range of Marvel comics" since Justice League is and always has been a DC publication.

my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Monday, 27 August 2012 10:31 (eleven years ago) link

Yes, my point is that, and a bit more. It's like describing when the Graun went tabloid sized as their "revamped range of Times newspapers".

passive-aggressive display name (aldo), Monday, 27 August 2012 11:00 (eleven years ago) link

Or the launch of BBC3 as part of the BBC's "revamped range of ITV television". Oh no, wait, that works.

passive-aggressive display name (aldo), Monday, 27 August 2012 11:04 (eleven years ago) link

open goal, but couldn't resist posting the second comment on this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2012/sep/04/online-reviews-rant-in-restaurant?commentpage=last#end-of-comments

Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 13:17 (eleven years ago) link

A-man-using-a-computer-008.jpg

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/9/4/1346753390687/A-man-using-a-computer-008.jpg

DG, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 13:21 (eleven years ago) link

http://i.minus.com/iGFHbdFHnjhH3.png

caek, Saturday, 15 September 2012 09:11 (eleven years ago) link

Online news sites: the art of not clicking on things

Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Saturday, 15 September 2012 09:15 (eleven years ago) link

as much as that article is largely polyfilla I found the stuff about the novelist who tried to visit everyone on her friends list quite entertaining

Did communist FB take down the awesome bacon quran picture? (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 15 September 2012 11:47 (eleven years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Shame to see this go: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/allotment/2012/oct/05/allotments-gardens
"After five years, Allan Jenkins and Howard Sooley bring the Observer Organic Allotment Blog to a gentle close ..."

djh, Saturday, 6 October 2012 10:53 (eleven years ago) link

Interesting double standards in today's paper.

A long editorial about Jimmy Savile and the BBC and a Rock & Pop front page piece on Led Zeppelin on which Jimmy Page is not questioned about his predilection for 14-year-old girls.

Lost in Showbiz mentions Chris Brown and Justin Lee Collins as negatively as you would expect, while the radio reviewer protests about Andy Kershaw not being put back on Radio 3.

This is not to mention certain prominent columnists who think it dictatorial that a dickhead with a long criminal record should be jailed for wearing a T-shirt, while at the same time practically labelling Assange a rapist when he has neither been charged nor tired for the offence.

It would be useful to know whete they draw the boundaries.

sp: "tried."

Housing is an emotive subject because most people are struggling to pay rent, or a mortgage, making life-altering decisions about where to live based on how much they can afford to spend – so making the case for the state to be subsidising large chunks of rent for other people to live in London does not instantly elicit sympathy. If you're in any doubt about this, just glance below to read the comments that inevitably follow pieces on this theme.

Cornelius Chi-Dubem Udebuluzor (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 00:39 (eleven years ago) link

this is like breaking the four or fifth wall or sthing, ostensibly a news article which acknowledges its own inevitable backlash

Cornelius Chi-Dubem Udebuluzor (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 00:40 (eleven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Moss may regret that early shoot, but it took beauty out of the realm of fantasy glamour into something more wonky and fallible

Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Thursday, 1 November 2012 18:14 (eleven years ago) link

Ultimately, the shoot was a bad experience for Moss, but a turning point for fashion and art. Back in 1990, she took one for the team.

Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Thursday, 1 November 2012 18:15 (eleven years ago) link

In case anyone is wondering how people like Terry Richardson still get away with this kind of thing ^^^^^^

Go Narine, Go! (ShariVari), Thursday, 1 November 2012 18:43 (eleven years ago) link

seriously can someone please tell them to stop the "what... did next" and "how i learned to stop x and love y"?

it's just fucking awful.

Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 7 November 2012 14:18 (eleven years ago) link

think you need to stop grumbling and learn to love the guardian

Mountain Excitement (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Wednesday, 7 November 2012 15:26 (eleven years ago) link

what Local Garda did next

Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 7 November 2012 15:27 (eleven years ago) link

How we all fell in love with LocalGarda

Alba, Wednesday, 7 November 2012 19:53 (eleven years ago) link

"It's the lack of replies that's most unnerving," says Luke Hatfield, a journalism graduate from Staffordshire University.

Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Friday, 9 November 2012 00:51 (eleven years ago) link

Obama victory: Best gifs and memes

Rachel Howley-Waugh (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, 9 November 2012 20:45 (eleven years ago) link

three weeks pass...

pip getting the world of lather column is one of the best things that has happened to the guardian lately <3

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2012/oct/27/world-of-lather-soap-opera-roundup
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2012/dec/01/eastenders-syed-and-christian-leave

like, i don't even watch soaps but i'm literally re-reading them and reading the best bits out loud to my bf

#YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Saturday, 1 December 2012 16:27 (eleven years ago) link

what is jodelka's role/job/life in general...it's baffled me for the last few years

Blue Collar Retail Assistant (Dwight Yorke), Monday, 3 December 2012 00:42 (eleven years ago) link

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/dec/02/should-i-eat-less-fruit

There is one good reason for not eating grapefruits – they taste sour.

an area the size of Jimmy Wales (DJ Mencap), Monday, 3 December 2012 10:26 (eleven years ago) link

I'm making a grapefruit face at that article

Albert Crampus (NickB), Monday, 3 December 2012 10:48 (eleven years ago) link

eating a quarter of the fruit a day increased the risk by 30%.... but they are unlikely to increase your risk

jed_, Monday, 3 December 2012 11:35 (eleven years ago) link

surely that shit about grapefruit is ancient news

Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Monday, 3 December 2012 11:50 (eleven years ago) link

i am absolutely furious right now.

Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Monday, 3 December 2012 11:51 (eleven years ago) link

We challenge The Guardian to publish this comment in full

The Guardian newspaper, widely believed to be centre-left liberal and associated with the Labour party...

Ned Trifle X, Monday, 3 December 2012 13:19 (eleven years ago) link

Hello there

Ismael Klata, Monday, 3 December 2012 13:23 (eleven years ago) link


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