Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

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Only applicants so far...
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Ned Trifle II, Thursday, 10 July 2008 14:22 (fifteen years ago) link

Might submit a CV that just says "i'm white btw"

DJ Mencap, Thursday, 10 July 2008 14:23 (fifteen years ago) link

I have black friends. I work hard pay my taxes and dont commit crime. I would have hated the Nazis if I had been around in those days. And I vote BNP.

So Mr Smug Liberal journalist, your point is what exactly?

Posted by: Mark Greenwood | 10 Jul 2008 20:48:42

The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Friday, 11 July 2008 15:01 (fifteen years ago) link

Once again, it's one standard for black people and another standard for fucking idiots like myself. Get a grip, Gordon.

Tracer Hand, Friday, 11 July 2008 15:06 (fifteen years ago) link

Which scruffy £2.75 per hour 19-year-old basement assistant didn't double check the ad vetting then?

Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 11 July 2008 15:06 (fifteen years ago) link

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The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Friday, 11 July 2008 15:07 (fifteen years ago) link

That's why The Times is a good starting point. Maybe the Indy as well but yeah political balance and shit. The Torygraph is more solid across the board but when they decide to be ridiculous they top everyone
If you're going to be a bastard at least be straight about it like those darlings at the Metro or The Daily Hate Mail. I've said it before and I'll say it again, at least The Times is upfront about its fuckery. Also I think my hatred spewed over into 'wanting vengence' when they hired Peaches Geldof briefly. I swear my eyes rolled back into my head. That was the end for me.

ability to operate in a sensitive political environment
Lol at 'choice phrasing'

I have black friends. I work hard pay my taxes and dont commit crime. I would have hated the Nazis if I had been around in those days. And I vote BNP.

So Mr Smug Liberal journalist, your point is what exactly?

Posted by: Mark Greenwood | 10 Jul 2008 20:48:42
EXTRA lol. How does he explain that one to his many ethnic friends?

VeronaInTheClub, Friday, 11 July 2008 15:23 (fifteen years ago) link

Yeah, if you're going to have right wing keech and tollie then at least the Times is honest right wing keech and tollie.

Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 11 July 2008 15:25 (fifteen years ago) link

Sorry, this job has is no longer live. You may be interested in the similar jobs listed on the right.

oh they're on the right alright do you see

DG, Friday, 11 July 2008 16:30 (fifteen years ago) link

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Oh that crazy Courtney Love.

Mark C, Friday, 11 July 2008 17:47 (fifteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

shalom auslander is a fanny unless he is being funny in which case I don't get it

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jul/30/blogging.usa

webinar, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 11:28 (fifteen years ago) link

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From this photo I assume "local coffee shop" means "McDonalds next door to Dunkin' Donuts"

The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 11:30 (fifteen years ago) link

Why exactly does the Guardian publish on a Saturday?

Dingbod Kesterson, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 11:34 (fifteen years ago) link

the vegetarian recipe and charlie brooker's screen burn. i wanted to cry last week when they replaced vegetarian food for things-chefs-do-with-lamb.

schlump, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 12:45 (fifteen years ago) link

and brooker was off sick last week too. oh these dark times.

blueski, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 13:08 (fifteen years ago) link

i think the thing about the guy in the coffee shop is perfectly okay! the problem with it is the (presumably a sub's fault, or something) headline that suggests it is a criticism of "bloggers" and not "a guy in a coffee shop". sadly that is probably in the top 18%, say, of this week's guardian columnist's efforts

thomp, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 14:06 (fifteen years ago) link

Bring back "Powerblogger" Tony Naylor and Ruth Fowler's Daddy Issues

The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 14:07 (fifteen years ago) link

I believe an anti-blogger clause has recently been inserted into the Guardian's Code of Conduct.

Dingbod Kesterson, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 14:36 (fifteen years ago) link

Is that Ruth Fowler facebook group still going?

Ah, there's a different one now. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=24256040691

HAHAHA, here's a rum thing. I have a mutual friend with her. This mutual friend is the boss of the modelling company who gave me a day as an extra on a Bollywood set. Looks like Ms. F's been doing some saucy stuff on the sly.

Just got offed, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 14:41 (fifteen years ago) link

A statue of Vishnu is not an "extra", show some respect man

DJ Mencap, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 14:44 (fifteen years ago) link

I'm only four degrees of Facebook seperation from RFDI

The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 14:48 (fifteen years ago) link

i know suzy who knows everyone

ken c, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 14:56 (fifteen years ago) link

who is worst columnist in the guardian then? I can't decide if I'd nominate Zoe Williams or Laura Barton. Actually it's prob hard to beat Barton, that "shit poetry" style of music writing is really sickening.

Ronan, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 19:44 (fifteen years ago) link

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/aug/01/popandrock1

the pinefox, Sunday, 3 August 2008 13:10 (fifteen years ago) link

As if on cue. (+ I didn't even see Ronan's post till I'd posted that.)

the pinefox, Sunday, 3 August 2008 13:10 (fifteen years ago) link

i know suzy who knows everyone

Par exemple

His (Tom Parker Bowles) sister is nice, but at a party I once told him that something he was saying was the most smug thing I'd heard in a month of Sundays, although I can't remember what it was now (I posted about this party at the time). This is probably because immediately to our right I was spooked by my friend Dan arriving to same party in a group comprising some artphags and David Furnish.

My favourite Suzy quote to date..

Bob Six, Sunday, 3 August 2008 13:19 (fifteen years ago) link

They paid her to write that?

mei, Sunday, 3 August 2008 13:22 (fifteen years ago) link

who is worst columnist in the guardian then? I can't decide if I'd nominate Zoe Williams or Laura Barton.

i love zoe williams. i don't know what's not to love about her. i think she was at her best documenting pregnancy craziness. i guess that writing about childy family kind of stuff might put her in with the fifty best ecological half term holiday day trip supplement kind of guardian filler stuff, but i think she's entertaining.

schlump, Sunday, 3 August 2008 13:35 (fifteen years ago) link

that's Independent filler stuff, by definition

Just got offed, Sunday, 3 August 2008 13:40 (fifteen years ago) link

For the love of god can they ditch this "we sent our SPORTS journalist out to mow a lawn/drink a beer/have a bath" thing they have going at the moment.

It is so lame and is exposing how bad the writers are. EG the Olympic Sports one with pieces beginning "It was a sunny day in East London" etc...it's woeful!

Ronan, Friday, 8 August 2008 14:52 (fifteen years ago) link

They had a resident feminist the other day demanding that, at the end of their sentence, released female prisoners should get the same kind of support given to the likes of Barry George

Ismael Klata, Friday, 8 August 2008 15:17 (fifteen years ago) link

Jesus fucking christ, new depths of unfunny plumbed here

NickB, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 08:54 (fifteen years ago) link

Funny pictures made unfunny by Guardian trying to be hip.

NickB, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 08:55 (fifteen years ago) link

HOW DO I SHOT GUARDIANZ

Just got offed, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 09:02 (fifteen years ago) link

"lolcats" have never been funny

lex pretend, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 09:05 (fifteen years ago) link

lolhacks, morelike

The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 09:06 (fifteen years ago) link

When's the Graun gonna get on the Blingee craze is what this observer wants to know.

The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 09:06 (fifteen years ago) link

blingee was funny, unlike lolcats, but that was over a year ago, prob more. i lost my blingee pictures when my laptop died earlier this year but i was awesome in them, paris T-shirt and everything

lex pretend, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 09:10 (fifteen years ago) link

Has David Cameron got in on lolcats yet?

Tom D., Wednesday, 13 August 2008 09:12 (fifteen years ago) link

As a cat owner, I really like lolcats. I do not like lolbush.

Scik Mouthy, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 09:19 (fifteen years ago) link

One problem with the online edition is that rubbish like that is just one click away from the front page. If that were in the printed edition, it would thankfully be buried somewhere in one of the weekend supplements.

NickB, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 09:31 (fifteen years ago) link

today's student essentials in the pull out guide thing includes a £20 panini press. (which, apparently, is a device for burning stripes onto the tops of sandwiches).

koogs, Thursday, 14 August 2008 15:09 (fifteen years ago) link

essential

DG, Thursday, 14 August 2008 15:10 (fifteen years ago) link

and long-sleeve t-shirts

blueski, Thursday, 14 August 2008 15:10 (fifteen years ago) link

Um, I have a panini press, and it is fucking fantastic, I must say. £35 from John Lewis, mind.

Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 14 August 2008 15:12 (fifteen years ago) link

they've remove the witty comments on the tv-guide, from movies they obviously hate.

Ste, Thursday, 14 August 2008 15:14 (fifteen years ago) link

I never go out in long-sleeved T-shirts anymore unless they have stripes burned into them.

Tracer Hand, Thursday, 14 August 2008 15:17 (fifteen years ago) link

are panini presses the new toastie machine? every student had one when i was in uni (and those WERE great)

ken c, Thursday, 14 August 2008 15:18 (fifteen years ago) link

"What would Will Hodgkinson look like if we slammed his face into a panini press and switched it on? We decided to find out..."
(cover story for this Saturday's Weekend...)

Dingbod Kesterson, Thursday, 14 August 2008 15:18 (fifteen years ago) link

or a "breville" as one would call it

xpost

ken c, Thursday, 14 August 2008 15:19 (fifteen years ago) link


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