Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

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

lol xxxpost

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?

Wonder if I could get a gig writing about some dude I had a fight with in 1983.

"First thing I did on entering college was ask where I could hang my flat cap and if there was a good place to keep whippets."

First thing I did on entering college was be mildly disappointed when I realised Hull didn't have a beach.

"Oxford is hellish. It needs to be broken apart and stuffed with kids who've got a scholarship to a minor private school- for its own good"

six fucking pages of comments, 95% of which are "I went to Oxbridge and had a cracking time!"

5% of which are quality zings

Renoir
Oct 02 08, 11:48am

Czarnykot: naughty but funny and horribly revealing. There's something quite Oxford student journalism about Gold's pieces, which adds to the irony.

Actually, those are some harsh percentages, Miss Gold's getting some great and sustained stick here.

The final paragraph of that blog post is shite of the highest order.

(I mean the 'that liberal media, they love the intolerant Muslims' one, not the 'I spent three years at Oxford weeping into my gin' one).

LOL OMG go to Page 6 of the Oxford article's comments, and check out the contributions from "WorldWide"

Oxford was about Power, Cambridge was about Religion. Both had Soul but were loveless.

This is Bobby Gillespie, right?

"It was as a wee bairn who got a scholarship to a minor public school that I first met Sun Ra, Holger Czukay and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Of course, all them gadgies were listening to the Rubettes at the time. I soon turned them on to the good stuff."

The women/girl students were uniformly ugly but had potential for later bloomage.

Maybe it's Antony Worrall Thompson.

Did this masterpiece get due recognition?
The art of bumping into geniuses

How does ET cope with being the Paul Burrell of music journalism?

How is it that, throughout my time as a critic, I have often encountered unusual talents, geniuses if you will – Jad Fair, Calvin Johnson of Beat Happening, Lydia Lunch, Thalia Zedek of Come, Daniel Johnston – often, early on in their "careers", and yet none of their star or selling power has rubbed off on me?

Wait! I know this one!!

Another 500 word tract on why no one recognises the true genius of ET.

I prefer him when he's in embarrassing ignored namedropper mode to his "Here is my new favourite girl band consisting of a bunch of women who look, dress, and sing like oversexualised toddlers"