jamboinglasgow Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 I saw this article today and thought what twaddle http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/22/thomas-the-tank-engine-children-parents but then it made me think, it feels like those mail online columns like the woman who thinks all other women are just jealous of her which are done purely to get people to go onto the mail website. And is not like its an isolated article, for example one article recently is about how the world cup is sexist. The comment is free section seems to be full of attention grabbing headlines that are full poorly constructed arguments underneath. So is the Guardian now going for the shameless attention articles that it criticises mail online for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy Wiseau Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 Comment Is Free is beyond parody now, for the most part. No wonder the right rip the pish out of the Guardian when it allows pish like that to be routinely published. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N User Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 Poor attempt to take on an easy target. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paolo Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 The Guardian sports pages are good, but the rest of it is a pile of pish, as are most newspapers. Being a paper that still is 'broadsheet' in hard copy does not change that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Kilpatrick Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 Comment is Free below the line is even funnier than articles as dreadful as that. Seething lefties gyrating in any way possible to blame anything on "neo liberalism", "Thatcher" and "Clegg". Comedy gold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Draper Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 Comment is Free below the line is even funnier than articles as dreadful as that. Seething lefties gyrating in any way possible to blame anything on "neo liberalism", "Thatcher" and "Clegg". Comedy gold. Generally, you may be right. The comments below that article are quite funny, though - they're just ripping the p1sh out of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cade Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 The Graun has picked up a bad habit of publishing stupid articles such as this one just in order to provoke a reaction. People have huge stormy arguments in the comments section and the Graun gets to say it gets lots of clicks. Shame, but if we want free papers then we have to put up with pish like this generating hits for their advertising revenue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zico Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 The Graun employs some excellent journalists (Nick Davies being one) but it's website is 75% clickbait these days, sadly. They'd be better paywalling it as they're losing any semblance of respectability. Some of the pseudo-feminist shite they've been publishing recently is beyond parody. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I P Knightley Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 Is anyone up for a "Let's make The Grauniad readers SEETHE" attempt? (I still chuckle thinking of the marvellous effort on the Daily Mail.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Kilpatrick Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 Is anyone up for a "Let's make The Grauniad readers SEETHE" attempt? (I still chuckle thinking of the marvellous effort on the Daily Mail.) Too late. Tubes like The Great Ron Rafferty live in a state of permaseethe! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smack Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 The Mail has many a Greenwald writing for it. Don't be silly OP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlasgoJambo Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 No Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamboinglasgow Posted July 22, 2014 Author Share Posted July 22, 2014 The Mail has many a Greenwald writing for it. Don't be silly OP. you miss my point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMaganator Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 The answer is yes. I've been saying for ages. The Guardian is just the Daily Mail for lefties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorgiewave Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 The Guardian is a total shitehole of a newspaper these days. The type of people it's aimed at do my head in so I read it as little as possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juan Rom?n Riquelme Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 It's been getting sillier lately. Every 3rd article is some kind of thing about pop songs being part of 'rape culture' or some other nonsense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tazio Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 That piece is beyond parody. There was a time the Guardian was a good newspaper, now it just plays to the gallery of believers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ribble Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Actually find their sports writers to be some of the best, very rarely read their news or editorial's however. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Kilpatrick Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 One thing I will say - their Aussie edition is very good. Then again, the Fairfax and Murdoch papers are dreadful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djf Posted July 24, 2014 Share Posted July 24, 2014 Seems as good a place for this as any: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2014/jul/24/thieves-world-warcraft-real-prisons-tory-mike-weatherley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Kilpatrick Posted July 24, 2014 Share Posted July 24, 2014 Seems as good a place for this as any: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2014/jul/24/thieves-world-warcraft-real-prisons-tory-mike-weatherley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusk_Till_Dawn Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 The guardian does hard news and sport brilliantly. It's coverage of politics on the other is hopeless because it clings to the idea that Labour are somehow left leaning and a party of the people () Polly Toynbee is one giant Facepalm. As for the comment is free section, it's loaded with feminists complaining about issues they've invented themselves for the purposes of writing an article. If I want to hear some burd complaining, I'll go round tesco with our lass thank you very much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Draper Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 Good podcasts too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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