Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

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

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

capitals in first par, closed window.

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

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It doesn't make sense!

inexexcusable?

Yes, my editing is as bad as theirs.

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.

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".

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

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

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Online news sites: the art of not clicking on things

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

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 ..."

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

what Local Garda did next

How we all fell in love with LocalGarda

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

Obama victory: Best gifs and memes

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

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

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.

I'm making a grapefruit face at that article

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

surely that shit about grapefruit is ancient news

i am absolutely furious right now.

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...

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Could challenge The Guardian to read that comment in full, tbh. Whoever puts out the embassy's press releases needs an editor.

I don't think even the Grauniad's copy editors would let that through unchanged.

lol xp

The best bit is when they accuse Alan Rusbridger of engineering the Crimean War. Or something. Alas no response from The Guardian. They should have done one in the style of a Russian Embassy press release for the lols.

I kind of admire the London embassy's continued defiance of both diplomatic norms and common sense. Apparently a pensioner emailed them to complain about Pussy Riot being jailed so they sent him back lots of hardcore nsfw jpegs of one of the members having sex in a museum as part of a protest action a few years ago. I suspect you don't get that from the Chinese.

"We challenge The Guardian to publish this comment in full to prove that it is, after all, about reasoned debate and not the search for the weapons of mass distraction, British politics may be in need of."

Sweet pun, Russian embassy guy.

what is the worst thing you can say about an author on the internet without it being perceived as inciting violence & so illegal

get back to me, i need to comment on this guy's piece

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Low point of my guardian reading year was flicking through the G2 a few weeks back and my eyes alighting on Hadley Freeman using the word 'obvs' in her SHIT FUCKING FASHION ADVICE COLUMN.

Can we all agree that the G2 is the thing that annoys most about the Guardian?

so glad someone else hates that column. she hasn't got a fucking clue.

I quite like her other pieces but she just doesn't really seem that interested in fashion.

this is the thing, she pretty much is annoyed by almost every item of clothing that anyone ever asks her about. irritated both by trends and by... jeans.