Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

Perhaps they should replace it with an article in which Zoe Williams reads solemnly from Doktor Faustus, a child on each knee, pointing out the parallels to the rise of fascism.

realise this is sarcasm but i am prepared to own this point of view

otm

wtf is this

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/03/lent-earthly-vice-40-days-sacrifice

they shd run that same piece every day with a different topic

"So you're off to Glastonbury? You realise there are people starving, right?"
"So you're watching the FA Cup final? You realise there are people starving, right?"
"So you bought your family Christmas presents? YOU BASTARD, I HOPE YOU HATE YOURSELF"

http://i.imgur.com/M56djPs.jpg

that dave bry piece is some scorched earth of journalism shit

xp are you complaining that the text differs from the graphic? if so read the article again.

or are you complaining about something subtler to do with the data. would be glad to hear what you have in mind, since i ... *cough*.

or are you complaining about the guardian writing about twitter, in which case fair enough.

the article btw http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/womens-blog/2015/apr/03/why-do-fewer-women-tweet-political-party-hashtags

I posted this horror a few days ago: http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2015/mar/31/country-music-image-problem-bro-country-sexist

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I like Stewart Lee's writing, but it's always the comments that provide the main interest. The section is always populated mainly by readers who have seemingly taken Lee at face value and assumed, for example, that he needs people to cook his steak, and by smug readers who celebrate their superiority over the other readers because they understand the joke.

So far so good, but then I wonder if the readers who were slagging Stewart off were in fact just joking so they could get a rise out of the earnest types. Then I worry that the earnest types are also just joking, and they understand full well that everyone gets the joke, and are just playing their part. Then I wonder if this is all obvious and I'm being the only idiot by even imagining that anyone is being serious with their comments.

Now I'm worried I'm spoiling the whole pantomime by just writing this comment.
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5 Apr 2015

There's a particularly uninspired Geoff Dyer comment is free article today, "Underground culture isn’t dead – it’s just better hidden than it used to be".

Never has 'underground culture sounded' so dull, nor does he give any indication that he has any sense of what's going on. Don't know why he's so complacent.

xpost That reads like what Syd would write for Jugband Blues for the modern day.

pretty sure 'giantmoth' is Stewart Lee

Whole piece feels like a framework on which to prop the gag about feeling like a big-shot author because his books aren't in the determindley obscurantist bookshop.

the whole Geoff Dyer piece

Don't know why he's so complacent.

He's a fkn idiot.

I've enjoyed some of his writing in the past, though more his novels than his journalism.

the Guardian view on...

I’m a Facebook baby bore. If you don’t like it, log off

On this fourth #EdBallsDay, has the hype become too much?

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/may/04/royal-baby-hypocrisy-quick-toast

I can't help thinking they may have shot themselves in the foot with this prince Charles letters thing. Maybe it's just that it seems to me like prince Charles writing letters to ministers about homeopathic medicine, or whatever, is the least of the country's worries right now but it seems more like a convenient (though accidental, timing wise) distraction and actually seems fairly ridiculous when related to the actual breaking apart of our civil rights that's imminent. I realise the timing is out of their control but I feel like the meagre notes they are trumpeting seem ridiculous w/r/t what is actually happening to us.

I know I'm not much of a deep thinker but this is more frustrating, to me, than helpful tbf.

Nick, Michael, Lex, any other Guardian types who hang about this thread...

Who would I pitch to, a piece detailing the failures of a tech-giant not only to fail to protect their users by enforcing their own terms of service WRT stalking/doxing, but also giving out downright dangerous official advice in responses to complaints?

I don't know if that would be Tech or Women or Comment Is Free, but any suggestions as to who to pitch at?

Possibly any of those. Email me at albaba at gmail.com and I can be more specific.

Cheers! Sent.

Joel Golby writes about general stuff for VICE and the Guardian Guide

nakh that really was the worst thing I've ever read

the rest of his articles look like they could provide some competition if you have the will to go through them

I don't

checked out this lad's twitter earlier and he could be the millennial Michael Hogan we were all waiting for

he has someway to go before creating anything as bad as this
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/jan/12/mel-giedroyc-sue-perkins-funniest-moments

http://i.imgur.com/szpdL9l.jpg

switched from fhm to vice several months ago but hasnt updated his pic for something a bit more dorke

https://twitter.com/joelgolby/status/602196573121081345

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too easy perhaps, but for the record http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/28/snoop-dogg-feminist-sexist-lyrics

this is at least the third time Julie Bindel has written essentially this article about Snoop

"I own no fewer than four of his CDs" made me lol but general sentiment seems fine to me

the revelation that she watches re-runs of Carry On films was also a bit o_O. The broader point she is making is fair enough, granted.

this bloke got married apparently http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/28/a-moment-that-changed-me-james-rhodes-marriage-proposal

TBF any British person with a Bank Holiday hangover watches marathons of Carry On films at some point.

I like the Julie Bindel piece.

hah fair enough. I hereby rescind my nomination.

'I start to feel it in my knees' – working for hours while standing proves a tall order

With new research suggesting workers be on their feet for half of their working day, Esther Addley set out to meet the target. But four hours of standing is no easy task

Standing to work is not a new thing: Leonardo da Vinci, Ben Franklin, Winston Churchill and Vladimir Nabokov are all said to have done it. Philip Roth wrote his novels on his feet, while James Murdoch, now chief operating officer of 21st Century Fox, is a self-confessed “big believer” in standing while you work.

I mean, I realise this means people standing in an office, but at no point does it even seem to realise shopworkers, waiting staff, bar staff, police, I mean, how many people stand all day at work? Dunno how you could write that and not think about just working in a shop even in your teens or whatever.

Karl Marx famously did this too but only because he was plagued with boils on his arse, so that probably doesn't count.

those blokes at Covent Garden who have painted themselves gold

priests who are uncomfortable with movement

Liveblogging the relaunch episode of TFI Friday.

I'm being forced to watch it and tbf it's deserves to be liveblogged, though not in the way I imagine the Guardian's doing it.

I'm watching it too a bit. I can't believe Chris Evans decided that's what he'd wear for the show.

Doesn't Chris Evans have all the money? I can't imagine wanting to do this again.