Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

"What would Will Hodgkinson look like if we slammed his face into a panini press and switched it on? We decided to find out..."
(cover story for this Saturday's Weekend...)

or a "breville" as one would call it

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I binned the student guide w/o reading it. There was a decentish article about people using blogs to serve out spam & install malware in the technology section, I thought.

http://politicalbetting.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/guardian-voodoo-poll.jpg

So Guardian readers are much more likely to be Tory voters than the public.

I trust Max Gogarty

I know the Graun website is full of Tory trolls but that has all the hallmarks of a poll that four people have voted in.

Yeah, I'd say it's probably the same four Tory trolls who always turn up on HYS, Labour Home and suchlike.

The cartoon they're currently running on the back of the G2 on a friday is perhaps the most unfunny, ametuerishly drawn strip I've seen in actual print.

The most unfunny strip in print is still Chris Roy Taylor's "The Omnipresent", available in every edition of thelondonpaper. Every single one seems to have been carefully designed to be as completely shit as possible. I mean it actually feels deliberate; that's how bad it is.

(looks at back of G2) god it is crap, isn't it.

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Hahaha oh god that sucks.

I've seen many many shitty internet comix that crap all over it.

That Guardian one is beyond bad. Has she even seen a human face before?

is this the "karine frischmann" or whatever one?

it's not just the drawings, the "jokes" are horrendous. each one seems to have no punchline except "I was a weird quirky child!!!" when there's not even anything weird about the stupid stories.

can we get a dom p thought on these?

online link?

thanks for warning me about this dudes

I stopped buying The Guardian, mainly in protest at the dumbing down of their cryptic crossword. Although The Indie's is beginning to fuck me off as well, part of the clue last Saturday contained the phrase "Actress Hatcher". In a cryptic crossword.

I stopped buying The Guardian, mainly because it was shit.

We've totally covered Karine Frischmann (or whatever) before, may or may not have had its own thread

Louis:
http://karriefransman.wordpress.com/

Ah, her.

Those are the most paedo-y eyes in history

FRANSMANN: I ROONED ROO/MADDIE

Next week's strip: "what's the deal with airline peanuts?"

Does Keital Firehose think that all rap is just "talking over records"?

http://karriefransman.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/guardian-published-6-cake-maker.jpg

waht

i don't get why someone would want to draw people like that

srsly waht

what about the pretentious one, made up of bad photography and word labels? it always hints at some cryptic melancholic truism that isn't quite there. it was nice when they were running pbf.

they are abysmal...it's astonishing they go to print. it's easy to be hyperbolic but srsly, that is about the worst thing I've ever seen in a newspaper. there are no punchlines!

"i like cakes and am racist"

In keeping with the Guardian readership then.

They read and look like they've been thought up by a 12 year old girl.

An insult to 12 year old girls shurely.

laurabarton.jpg

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http://karriefransman.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/guardian-published-airport-van.jpg

This one is the worst.

No, if it were Barton there wouldn't be any drawings at all, just 1500 tedious words about thinking about drawing a picture of Kurt Wagner in his Y-fronts while climbing down the inside of Mount St Helens or wherever else she dreamed she went last night.

oh the lusty hale of the moonlight shone on wagner's buxom bosom....alas the moment passed and I was left alone, like robinson cruesoe in the book of the same name.

lol

Don't forget to paraphrase the book quote twice to reach word count.

I read a Laura Barton piece by mistake once, something about some piece of alt-country toss evoking the Mississippi and making her soul orgasm blah blah blah. Yuk.

thing is....everyone I know thinks she's shit!

I went out for a drink for the first time with someone I barely knew a few months ago, who likes all the music Barton writes about. It turned out she and her friends post the article on Facebook every Friday to rip the piss out of it.

Good to know that others are fighting the good fight as well!

http://www.hurryupharry.org/2008/10/03/the-guardian-sacks-racist-blogger/

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

It's basically "i had a shit time, inherent problems with the system". I mean much as she might have a point (about Oxford being a haven for poshy-spaz idiocy), this IS, in the end, another one of those "I went to Oxbridge I I I I and here is what happened, btw I'm highly intelligent and perceptive, and could do things better than what the people in power do it" articles, which I can only despise

and ZING:

MrsLong
Oct 02 08, 8:21am

It got you a job at The Guardian

O the pain, the suffering

I went up to Merton College in 1993, a kid who'd got a scholarship to a minor private school.

Get away. Well I never. Who'd've thought it?

most of tanya gold's articles seem to be about some deep seated bitterness/resentment at school bullies or being ostracised.

She coped by becoming a drunk. Where's the downside?