Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

^a

When approaching a band's debut album, one should of course bear in mind the sage advice of George Michael and Listen Without Prejudice.

lol he is not funny on twitter

I will unfollow forthwith, thx for correcting me.

The Guardian and the Observer lost £44.2m last year as investment in digital publishing – including iPad, Facebook and Android apps – contributed to a deepening of losses at the national newspapers that could not be offset by double-digit growth in digital revenues.

aftr i landid i went 4 dinnr with harvey winesteen who is a film produser and also he sed he is a self tort film editor 2!!1! 1stly he gayve me 1000 austrian dollrs 2 tell every1 that he actualy prodused my film amour. such a niys gestchur!!1!

Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of the titles, said the newspapers would aim to save £7m from editorial expenditure in order to help reduce the deficit, while the publisher will seek between 70 and 100 journalist redundancies from a workforce of about 650 via a reopened voluntary programme.

deer diary, 2dai i had 2 meet with lotsof designrs who wantd 2 dres me 4 the Oscars!!1! i felt like i was in an episode of austrias nxt top model but i didnt evn hav 2 go on a diet of cabage and bein sick. yaaay.

In a briefing for staff, Rusbridger said the Guardian and Observer – collectively Guardian News & Media (GNM) – "will be smaller" and that the newspapers "will do less, less of what's called commodity journalism, so that we can do more on our core purpose and the type of journalism that we're here to do".

fvonfischer

21 February 2013 10:13pm

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if you've come here and don't know about haneke's as highbrow as it gets reputation, and hollywood's dumber end, you won't get it. excellent on twitter.

^quintessential guardian comment

i was gonna say earlier, if the joke of this is that Haneke is the most serious director they can think of then cheesus lol watch moar flims lol!?!?!?

I tend to pick them up from an African grocer on the outskirts of Exeter after a visit to a nearby gun shop with my elder son, to stock up on ammunition so he can continue his campaign against our local grey squirrel population

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2013/feb/22/bananas-plantains-recipes-ice-cream

Going pretty overboard on the Bruce Reynolds obits, both in tone and volume.

Bruce's son is good friends with a LOT of Guardian people. He used to bring Dad to warehouse/Idler parties at Tardis Studios, until recently right beside Farringdon.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2013/feb/27/hilary-mantel-duchess-of-cambridge

wtf is this total shit?

Re: five days ago, I know that gunshop. Not sure about the grocer, though; can buy plantains in center of town, practically.

Without reading it, that looks like a copy of the kind of thing you find in Private Eye.

if the joke of this is that Haneke is the most serious director they can think of then cheesus lol watch moar flims lol!?!?!?

I watch a lot of films and Haneke is still the most serious director I can think of.

That most recent link is completely unreadable. In that I am actually finding it impossible to read.

exactly, i just can't even process it. it's not even unfunny (though i'm sure it is) because i can't actually read a line of it. starting with the stupid, stupid, headline.

I guess the premise is that SC is somewhat educated but also an airhead and this is an attempt to capture a syntax reflective of that. the only problem is there doesn't seem to have been an attempt to add in anything (jokes, subject matter etc) that anyone would want to read

Who writes these bits? Tim Dowling?

It says Catherine Bennett there.

Apologies, didn't read it. Sack her. Sack them all.

didn't read it. Sack her. Sack them all.

― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Friday, March 1, 2013 3:42 PM (1 minute ago)

otm. a creed to live by.

I watch a lot of films and Haneke is still the most serious director I can think of.

lol watch better films

(guess i shd've used "highbrow" rather than "serious" but ugggh)

Today's G2 features a full-page comment from Helen Pidd, the Guardian's new northern editor, bemoaning the "Londoncentricity" of much of the paper's output. It's immediately followed by a four-page feature on air pollution which focuses largely on... London.

stu-Pidd, just stu-Pidd

nice headline

really stuck out to me too - all the child murder news you need in bite-size 140 character chunks

hold the front page!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2013/may/03/defence-not-liking-animals

emotional defective claims that massive narcissism doesn't make you emotionally defective

The Guardian Australian Edition is now here with "five things we learned this weekend in the AFL", of course.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/28/birth-royal-baby-kate-middleton

this is the kind of thing that really bugs me. like... if this "media frenzy" is so annoying then surely the guardian can do something better than pointlessly pre-empting it with articles like this?

it's no fun having a cake if you can't eat it too, is what i take from pieces like this

in what sense do you mean?

that the media frenzy is annoying, but that taking part in it somehow will still yields pageviews and therefore ££s

yeah, taking part in it while criticising it is just the pits tho, imo, not least since the entire aim of the piece is to congratulate your readers for how above it all they are.

this is how Graun readers live

Boya Dee for Editor

the article isnt great and prophylactic disinterest in a forthcoming hyped event is usually tiresome

i still feel instinctively pleased when anyone in a broadsheeet newspaper disparages the royal family and their vile entourage

A quick search on the #guardiancoffee is providing much entertainment right now.

ffs

idgi

they're opening a coffee shop

Huh.

http://jobs.guardian.co.uk/job/4646957/retail-operations-manager/

cue much guffawing at pretentious grim-up-North-London flat white sipping Guardianistas.

boxpark tho, jesus.

I believe there are big screens that show up every tweet with the #guardiancoffee hashtag. Even feebs like the Telegraph realised that was a terrible idea years ago.

That's my hope of doing my job well today down the drain.

They had one of these on Farringdon Road, but the obvious proximity to Grub Street and the actual genesis of the free press in coffee houses not far from there must have looked too much like the kind of historical relevance unlikely to trouble your average reactionary trollboy.

The whole "we'll display everything under this hashtag" approach is such a rudimentary social media clanger though, unless the Graun were taking this all into account and just want the attention, which is possible.