The Guardian.

[onejayhawk]

Originally posted by Drewcifer
Do people in Britain consider the Guardian to be actual journalism or do they see it as a joke?

 

[EdwardTking]

The Guardian is a good quality newspaper.

I sometimes buy it myself.

But that doesn't mean that I necessarily believe
in the arguments or views of its articles.

 

[ellie]

If i had to pick a newspaper i hated most it would be the guardian

Paper summary in the uk

Sun: comic, right wing propoganda, read by a lot of people but i doubt it is taken seriously by anyone.
Typical reader, white van man

Mirror, comic with the opposite stances to the sun, ie left wing propoganda rabidly anti american
Typical reader: god knows.

Daily mail: one i read a fair bit. Right wing, a bit more subtle. Good section (femail)
Typical reader: Mainly women pick this as it has excellent health sections and good stories.

Guardian: This one is at its core as biased and left winged as the mirror. But its far more subtle. Aimed for the more educated. Its anti american but it doesnt state this directly, just does endless articles to portray the bad side of the us. More effective at influencing opinion than the mirror as the writing quality is high
Typical reader: "Interlectual" socialists

Telegraph: Same standard of writing as the guardian, but instead of left wing is right wing. One i read most. Has the largest readership of the broadsheets

 

[Kentonio]

If i had to pick a newspaper i hated most it would be the guardian

Ellie I applaud you my dear, I have never seen a statement made at CFC that I can agree more with.

 

[EdwardTking]

Other British newspapers include:


The Times

Almost politically neutral on average; with
articles from a mixture of view points.


The Independent

Very slightly left -wing.


The Observer

In my opinion as left wing as the Guardian;
but more serious and therefore less funny.

 

[ellie]

grin kentonio thats because we are both capitalist pigs!!!



Nod edward btw agree on those three.

Now where do you put the bbc ? ;-)

 

[Kentonio]

grin kentonio thats because we are both capitalist pigs!!!

One concedes the point.

 

[allhailIndia]

From a non- British perspective, BBC is very neutral in its coverage, but does not like to air extreme opinions either.

 

[Drewcifer]

Reading the Guardian from the US is often funny. They have no idea what the US is really like, it is obvious from reading their work.

The Economist has the best coverage of the US on either side of the Atlantic.

Anyone who is sympathetic to the Guardian's politics should read the American magazine "the Progressive", they understand the country they are critiquing.

 

[Suppersalmon]

i read the Gaurdian its very good in my opinion

 

[sgrig]

Currently, it seems the Guardian is the only newspaper worth reading! (if any papers are worth reading at all!)

 

[Kafka2]

Allow me to offer an alternative view of a couple of papers....

Daily Mail- "Quality Tabloid" aimed squarely at Little Englanders. Basically dresses up a stew of right-wing scare-mongering (they really don't like immigrants) in a thin veneer of pseudo-respectability. Very big on stories of poor, suffering ickle animals in beastly foreign zoos, bizarrely. Tends to mount campaigns to rescue mangy circus bears whilst simultaneously whipping up fear and loathing of asylum seekers.

Daily Telegraph- Always has been very big on scandal stories, going back over 50 years. Particularly sexual peccadilloes of the rich and famous. Hence the higher readership, I presume.

 

[CurtSibling]

The paper media is full of propaganda bull, no matter which one you read.

I tend to go online for news.
I read many web-news sources, from NY Times to Pravda.

 

[Yoda Power]

Sure the Guardian is a good newspaper even though i have neve read it(but i know one of the jounerlists in real life).

edit-ups he works with the Observer, but he used to work for the Guardian.

 

[CurtSibling]

You can't stop people reading what they want anyway.

I think the Guardian is not the worst of the propagande papers.

The Daily Record is the one I hate the most.

 

[Pangur Bán]

Originally posted by CurtSibling


The Daily Record is the one I hate the most.

 

[phoenix_night]

I used to have the Guardian, now the Independent.

 

[Kinniken]

Originally posted by Drewcifer
The Economist has the best coverage of the US on either side of the Atlantic.

Don't know much about english newspapers, but The Economist is by far the best newspaper I know of, from any country.
Though it can be a difficult read, they cover a very wide variety of subjects very professionaly. And while they have strong political opinions on a lot of subjects, they do a good job seperating their view points from the facts.
As a great plus, they are one of the only newspaper who can claim to be realy international; there is no "foreign" section in it, just "Europe", "America" or "Asia" sections.

 

[newfangle]

During the Iraqi war, I only visited BBC and Guardian URLS for info. Everyone always claims that the Guardian is a left wing rag, but they seem to be the first paper to publically slam the Labour party (aside from the War of course).

 

[amadeus]

newfangle - of course they're going to slam the Labour party, because the Guardian is further to the left than that. The Liberal Democrats is probably the Guardian's political leanings (if not a socialist party...)

I agree with Drew, though, the Guardian really has no idea what the United States.