Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

it helps to not read the guardian tbh

Amir Khan feeds his muscles with MaxiNutrition protein when training and competing #feedyourmuscles www.maxinutrition.com

I can remember when the Guardian started following the tabloids in having shitty, asinine interviews with non-entities in the sport section but also started supplying extra sponsorship details below the article. Like Michael Owen wears Nike predator mk2 whatever whatevers because he is a cunt

Oh wow I thought this was a strange one-off. I guess I don't read the sports section that often.

It has been going on for years.

been going on for three/four years certainly. seems it can be difficult to get access to players these days without promising to mention a sponsor (saw journos complaining about this for cricket a while ago).

wonder if this came out of the - more laudable? - requirement to promote charitable work when doing an interview (such and such was interviewed at an away day for inner city children etc) which I assume also came from clubs/agents and appears to have been going on longer.

Not sure what would happen if newspapers refused to do it, though presumably they find it difficult to hold rank like that.

http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/aug/07/plop-horror-rocks-most-shocking-toilet-related-incidents

not a complaint: am feeling the subtly added new thing on the front page of the music section where the lead images are rotated and briefly morph into one another. specifically the transition between T Swift > K Bush

massive subbing errors in the weekend mag this week - huge chunk of cover feature missing, another chunk of same feature repeated twice. i mean, i'm sure the whole thing is available on the website, but way to go at convincing people buying the physical paper is a waste of time.

the weekend is generally a great supplement, too.

I'm not sure how that "Bup Stop" story got onto the front page of the online version.

without looking I'm gonna guess it was put there with the intention of getting dozens of identical comments referring to the newspaper's own history of spelling errors

I'm not sure how that "Bup Stop" story got onto the front page of the online version.

Because it's a mix of things like that, which people click to read in large numbers, and more serious journalism?

Yes, I understand the reasoning ... but sometimes the click-bait stories just seem a bit too poor - I think that can reflect on the whole "brand" (which I generally like).

Guardian business courses

1) Sell auto trader
2) ???

feeling the paul mason cif piece on independence though

https://membership.theguardian.com

540/year to tour the newsroom you say...

Anyone having problems with the website this morning?

always have big problems wiv that website bruv

amirite guys

http://www.theguardian.com/profile/jamesball

this person is useless

Why?

the larger part of the guardian homepage taken up by a feature of brigitte bardot at 80, naturally with a photo of brigitte bardot at 20
and a cool profile by agnes poirier, franchouillarde correspondent and writer of vapid dogshit
'the extent of her far-right sympathies can be overdone'
true, she has less than half a dozen convictions for inciting racial hatred, and none for over five years

she's an unrepentant anti-semite innit?

she no longer publishes her antisemitism or racism because eventually she might get a more serious sentence

Having lived for decades as a recluse in her two properties in St Tropez, unable to go out without being harassed by fans and paparazzi, she has developed, says her biographer, "a rather distorted view of the world", concentrating only on her foundation for the protection and welfare of animals."

the fixation on animal welfare would explain why

she also contrasted her close gay friends with today's homosexuals, who "jiggle their bottoms, put their little fingers in the air and with their little castrato voices moan about what those ghastly heteros put them through"

and

Bardot's book also condemned miscegenation

and

compared her own beliefs with previous generations who had "given their lives to push out invaders".[36]

and

said, in reference to Muslims, that she was "fed up with being under the thumb of this population which is destroying us, destroying our country and imposing its habits".

what a cunt!

crossword app is fucked >:-(

Oasis changed our lives
Metallica's Lars Ulrich and Maccabees' Felix White say 20 years ago Oasis altered their perceptions of music

Crossword still buggered.

next level
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/oct/04/i-married-myself-wedding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMQyZKS8yAI

Sparks to thread

Re xword I actually sent them an email & they told me that this is a known bug affecting iOS 7 users & they are working on a fix but if I update to iOS 8 I should have no problems

I think the latest update to the app also said it fixed it.

Yeah, that fixed it for me.

(Upgrading to 8, I mean.)

Just sitting there in the room and thinking, “Wow, all these people have come all this way today to celebrate me marrying myself!” was very humbling.

Humbling. That's the word for when you make up an entire event about loving yourself.

dnrsvpiyhm

does not really seem very p... in your humble m... (/ if you h... me?)

nope, can't do it

something something something something something something something you have mail

I've made up for the broken crossword app anyways

do not robin s. van persie if you hate me

Can someone tell me why the TV listings have gone?

noerttvltbfttg

:D

Marrying oneself was a fucking Jam sketch fifteen years ago ofc

Do not RSVP if you hate marriage of me to myself

xword app is fixed as alba said (eff updating to iOS 8 tbh)

thank god a uk media organization is able to give all of this vital american cultural politics content to the world

Renée Zellweger's face is her brand – a new look will change her career beyond recognition
22 Oct 2014: Steve Rose:

Nothing's wrong with Renee Zellweger's face. There's something wrong with us
22 Oct 2014: Jennifer Gerson Uffalussy

Renée Zellweger's new look due to 'happy, healthy lifestyle', not surgery
22 Oct 2014: Xan Brooks

It's not unreasonable to ask where the real Renée Zellweger has gone
2 hours ago: Viv Groskop

loooool