Who writes these bits? Tim Dowling?
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Friday, 1 March 2013 15:32 (eleven years ago) link
It says Catherine Bennett there.
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Friday, 1 March 2013 15:36 (eleven years ago) link
Apologies, didn't read it. Sack her. Sack them all.
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Friday, 1 March 2013 15:42 (eleven years ago) link
didn't read it. Sack her. Sack them all.
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Friday, March 1, 2013 3:42 PM (1 minute ago)
otm. a creed to live by.
― caek, Friday, 1 March 2013 15:44 (eleven years ago) link
I watch a lot of films and Haneke is still the most serious director I can think of.
lol watch better films
(guess i shd've used "highbrow" rather than "serious" but ugggh)
― a phenomenological description of The Eagles (Noodle Vague), Friday, 1 March 2013 15:48 (eleven years ago) link
Today's G2 features a full-page comment from Helen Pidd, the Guardian's new northern editor, bemoaning the "Londoncentricity" of much of the paper's output. It's immediately followed by a four-page feature on air pollution which focuses largely on... London.
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 12:20 (eleven years ago) link
stu-Pidd, just stu-Pidd
― Neil S, Wednesday, 20 March 2013 12:33 (eleven years ago) link
nice headline
― caek, Thursday, 2 May 2013 11:52 (eleven years ago) link
really stuck out to me too - all the child murder news you need in bite-size 140 character chunks
― Tioc Norris (LocalGarda), Thursday, 2 May 2013 11:57 (eleven years ago) link
hold the front page!http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2013/may/03/defence-not-liking-animals
― Neil S, Friday, 3 May 2013 13:31 (eleven years ago) link
emotional defective claims that massive narcissism doesn't make you emotionally defective
― Rowdy Rathore (Noodle Vague), Friday, 3 May 2013 15:13 (eleven years ago) link
The Guardian Australian Edition is now here with "five things we learned this weekend in the AFL", of course.
― Sir Francis Drake burned the Spanish Armada because YOLO (King Boy Pato), Monday, 27 May 2013 14:17 (ten years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/28/birth-royal-baby-kate-middleton
this is the kind of thing that really bugs me. like... if this "media frenzy" is so annoying then surely the guardian can do something better than pointlessly pre-empting it with articles like this?
― ... (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 11:03 (ten years ago) link
it's no fun having a cake if you can't eat it too, is what i take from pieces like this
― media conglomerates are pedaling the same product (stevie), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 11:25 (ten years ago) link
in what sense do you mean?
― ... (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 11:32 (ten years ago) link
that the media frenzy is annoying, but that taking part in it somehow will still yields pageviews and therefore ££s
― media conglomerates are pedaling the same product (stevie), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 11:36 (ten years ago) link
yeah, taking part in it while criticising it is just the pits tho, imo, not least since the entire aim of the piece is to congratulate your readers for how above it all they are.
― ... (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 11:39 (ten years ago) link
this is how Graun readers live
― the league against cool sports (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 12:42 (ten years ago) link
Boya Dee for Editor
― nashwan, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 12:49 (ten years ago) link
the article isnt great and prophylactic disinterest in a forthcoming hyped event is usually tiresome
i still feel instinctively pleased when anyone in a broadsheeet newspaper disparages the royal family and their vile entourage
― ghosts of erith spectral crackhouse slain rudeboy (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Thursday, 30 May 2013 00:43 (ten years ago) link
A quick search on the #guardiancoffee is providing much entertainment right now.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 30 May 2013 10:19 (ten years ago) link
ffs
― ... (LocalGarda), Thursday, 30 May 2013 10:34 (ten years ago) link
idgi
― I turned away to leave these few in thought and contemplation (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 30 May 2013 10:39 (ten years ago) link
they're opening a coffee shop
― ... (LocalGarda), Thursday, 30 May 2013 10:42 (ten years ago) link
Huh.
― I turned away to leave these few in thought and contemplation (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 30 May 2013 10:42 (ten years ago) link
http://jobs.guardian.co.uk/job/4646957/retail-operations-manager/
― Neil S, Thursday, 30 May 2013 10:43 (ten years ago) link
cue much guffawing at pretentious grim-up-North-London flat white sipping Guardianistas.
― Neil S, Thursday, 30 May 2013 10:44 (ten years ago) link
boxpark tho, jesus.
― ... (LocalGarda), Thursday, 30 May 2013 10:47 (ten years ago) link
I believe there are big screens that show up every tweet with the #guardiancoffee hashtag. Even feebs like the Telegraph realised that was a terrible idea years ago.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 30 May 2013 10:51 (ten years ago) link
That's my hope of doing my job well today down the drain.
― ... (LocalGarda), Thursday, 30 May 2013 10:53 (ten years ago) link
They had one of these on Farringdon Road, but the obvious proximity to Grub Street and the actual genesis of the free press in coffee houses not far from there must have looked too much like the kind of historical relevance unlikely to trouble your average reactionary trollboy.
― on the sidelines dishing out sass (suzy), Thursday, 30 May 2013 11:14 (ten years ago) link
The whole "we'll display everything under this hashtag" approach is such a rudimentary social media clanger though, unless the Graun were taking this all into account and just want the attention, which is possible.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 30 May 2013 11:22 (ten years ago) link
It's not a huge clanger imo - it does get them a lot of attention. Who can even say what attention is negative or positive these days?
Like say that Waitrose thing, I reckon that worked well for them despite all the bile.
― ... (LocalGarda), Thursday, 30 May 2013 11:23 (ten years ago) link
apparently the hashtag display is premoderated?
anyway this is such a tacky idea, i don't get who is supposed to be into it.
― ✌_✌ (c sharp major), Thursday, 30 May 2013 11:27 (ten years ago) link
even if you ignore the kind of weird and yeah, tacky nature of the idea, the location is horrible and looks to be failing too, empty shops there in recent months and it's not even on brand for them. boxpark is like zoo mag, not the guardian.
― ... (LocalGarda), Thursday, 30 May 2013 11:36 (ten years ago) link
I guess Boxpark is cheaper and lower risk than setting up anywhere else though?
― Matt DC, Thursday, 30 May 2013 11:37 (ten years ago) link
Would you say it's cheap? I'd imagine it could be pricey, unless there's a subsidy coming from Boxfresh. Probably cheap relative to anything else on Shoreditch High St I guess?
― ... (LocalGarda), Thursday, 30 May 2013 11:38 (ten years ago) link
With Boxpark, my main feeling is that AT LAST the lesser-spotted East London twink does not have to go to Covent Garden to buy Firetrap schmutter.
― on the sidelines dishing out sass (suzy), Thursday, 30 May 2013 11:38 (ten years ago) link
Again, even Shoreditch feels a weird location for them - kind of depressed former hipster zone.
You'd think I'd like it when I describe it that way but no.
― ... (LocalGarda), Thursday, 30 May 2013 11:39 (ten years ago) link
Yeah I mean the rent is probably not that much cheaper than the rest of the area but they're not going to be lumbered with a big lease or anything because the whole place is inherently short-term.
Again, even Shoreditch feels a weird location for them - kind of depressed former hipster zone
It's full of offices though, way more than Dalston or wherever.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 30 May 2013 11:41 (ten years ago) link
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given that at times their online model seems to prize bad, misinformed articles which get hundreds of BTL comments picking them apart to good, closely argued ones which get a few dozen murmurs of approval, this wouldn't be terribly surprising
― warm leveret (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 30 May 2013 11:42 (ten years ago) link
Yeah I wouldn't imagine them in Dalston, like Farringdon or whatever is surely their spiritual (central) home, but presumably way too expensive and probably far too much good competition.
― ... (LocalGarda), Thursday, 30 May 2013 11:43 (ten years ago) link
All the best coffee in London seems to be between my place and Farringdon - two places on Leather Lane alone are easily top 10.
― on the sidelines dishing out sass (suzy), Thursday, 30 May 2013 11:44 (ten years ago) link
Yeah those Leather Lane places are great, but I doubt that 'best coffee in London' is really the Graun's core concern here.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 30 May 2013 11:46 (ten years ago) link
I know what you mean - but even that is weird too. Like, what is their concern? A place for tourists to come to? That seems the most logical explanation.
― ... (LocalGarda), Thursday, 30 May 2013 11:47 (ten years ago) link
I suppose it's general brand-building, of a kind that could potentially pay for itself.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 30 May 2013 11:53 (ten years ago) link
Given that there's a bar / cafe in their own building, i'd have thought King's Cross might be a decent place to set it up. King's Place is about 90% there in terms of being a really good social / cultural space.
― хуто-хуторянка (ShariVari), Thursday, 30 May 2013 11:54 (ten years ago) link
yeah it's quite an impressive building.
― ... (LocalGarda), Thursday, 30 May 2013 12:23 (ten years ago) link
i mean, as offices go.