Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

website front page is currently v much worse than it used to be.

all better now.

Via Matos, the film and music section is no more after today: "They're folding it into the rest of the paper, doing more online, that sort of thing."

It's going into Friday's G2 from next week.

Think some things will still disappear? There's no Tom Ewing column as of now sadly.

And as this seems to be my last column for the Guardian (the first paper I read seriously), I say farewell in the hope that you have had some pleasure from it.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/jan/05/david-thomson-on-michael-fassbender/print

COPYING AND PASTING IS NOT PERT HUMOUR

DON'T FUCKING DO IT

xpost: From what I've heard, almost all of Friday's G2 will be Film & Music, except for Marina Hyde at the front and presumably the telly at the back. Dunno about specific regular features from the old F&M, though.

It's going to be most of Friday's G2, as Mike says. New commissioning and editing model, in which "pod heads" for film and music - for music, that's Caspar Llewellyn Smith - commission in their subject areas, and then Monday-Friday print editors take their pick of what they want. So G2 editor will compile F&M from stuff commissioned by others.

"pod heads"!

The question we've all been asking: Why doesn't Ireland do musicals?

We aren't lacking in raw materials, after all. Aren't we the country that brought you Enya, Sinead O'Connor, Westlife and U2?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/theatreblog/2012/jan/11/ireland-turned-off-musicals-bono

queequeg7

11 January 2012 6:50PM

Because musicals are generally shite

otm

are guardian comments always this stupid and annoying?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/jan/12/voivod-to-the-death-demo-metal

Generally only happens when the articles are linked on the front page. You get a lot of people who don't usually comment on the music sections.

normally the comments are really good

Well, you don't get people coming along to say 'WHO? I have never heard of them!" all the time.

yeah usually they would just blame pandemics on THE JEWS

You're thinking of Oi VeyVod

Oy not Oi obv

lol caek

The Guardian's picture editors, at least, are getting better:

http://twitpic.com/87r4fh

Wikipedia will be joined in its 24-hour protest by top news sharing site Reddit and the popular Cheezburger websites, which attract 16.5 million visitors a month to look at funny cat videos and photos.

so I actually quite like the new G2 film & music format. It's much more tube-friendly. Had a good chortle at Marina. However I did shed a tear due to the lack of my Friday dose of Private Lives & Pamela Stephenson page - I shall miss reading "my son is masturbating to gay porn" and "my teenage son is rank and is going to Cambridge but I want him to leave now" etc. Perhaps it's some ploy to get me buy the monday editions as well.

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28 January 2012 3:21PM

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28 January 2012 3:44PM

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i actually think its kind of cool that the graun deletes the more batshit racist/sexist/homophobic shit on their comments page but ymmv

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/jan/29/ting-tings-nowheresville-interview

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/shortcuts/2012/jan/29/pass-notes-brooklyn-3115

I’ve had a blog for a long time but only started to take it seriously a couple of years ago when I published a series of photos of Londoners wearing hats in their ordinary lives.

"some sweaty bopping in a Smiley T-shirt to "Ebeneezer Goode" in the 1990s"

has Barbara Ellen always written in that horrible Littlejohn-esque 'one sentence per paragraph' fashion btw

she's always been the Happy Shopper Julie Burchill so yeah

one cliche i wish would die - photographers taking photos of photographers, cameras pointed at cameras.

Azealia Banks – whose sound is reminiscent of 90s rapper Missy Elliott – Azealia Banks – whose sound is reminiscent of 90s rapper Missy Elliott – Azealia Banks – whose sound is reminiscent of 90s rapper Missy Elliott – Azealia Banks – whose sound is reminiscent of 90s rapper Missy Elliott – Azealia Banks – whose sound is reminiscent of 90s rapper Missy Elliott – Azealia Banks – whose sound is reminiscent of 90s rapper Missy Elliott – Azealia Banks – whose sound is reminiscent of 90s rapper Missy Elliott – Azealia Banks – whose sound is reminiscent of 90s rapper Missy Elliott – Azealia Banks – whose sound is reminiscent of 90s rapper Missy Elliott

^ subeditor

Call me a luddite, but just as I like getting my vegetables delivered in a box direct from a farm in Devon, I love knowing that the puppets in War Horse are handmade in a workshop in Cape Town.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/feb/12/revenge-muppets-puppets-kermit-war-horse

"luddite" wdn't be my first choice word

yes, i can think of a few others

Ugh...

Scream, Clueless, films like that were just as sly and arch in their message as new films such as Juno and Superbad, but without the irony.

;/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/feb/11/90s-revival-music-culture

In fairness that is a quote.

"For me, the 1990s doesn't seem that long ago"

Maybe cos it's not?

i don't dj much anymore but am pretty much guaranteed to play luchini whenever i do (and always have done).

"For me, the 1990s doesn't seem that long ago"

Maybe cos it's not?

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haha i just described 2006 as "basically ancient history" in an email to my editor

lol. every musical comparison in that article is so horrible

Terrible interview with Sophie Kinsella today by the Aitkendickhead - "but my friends have problems with shopping debts!," "but my friends don't see that as feminism" NOTE: OTHER PEOPLE ARE NOT "YOUR FRIENDS" DEAL WITH IT

Keep coming across broken links on the website. Their innocentese-404 page has the title 'Opps'. Never change.

Weird stuff happening on the Guardian home page?

Yeah, and the site was down for me a few minutes ago

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I was bit surprised to get this email from the Guardian:

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