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There isn't a single left-winger I know who thinks the Guardian isn't mostly garbage. They are filled with Blairites, have long hated Corbyn, barely covered San
by otalp 9y ago
There isn't a single left-winger I know who thinks the Guardian isn't mostly garbage. They are filled with Blairites, have long hated Corbyn, barely covered Sanders in their US edition and openly libel even moderately left-wing intellectuals before they are forced to retract their articles after their egregious reporting is pointed out.(eg: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/mar/23/noam-chomsky-guardian-personality https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/mar/23/noam-c... and https://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/nov/17/pressandpublishing.corrections https://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/nov/17/pressandpublis...)
The Guardian is for the most part the paper of liberals and Hillary Clinton fans.
- matthewmacleod 9y agoI rolled my eyes so hard at this misrepresentation that I think I injured myself. Your point is not well-made. The Guardian is a soft-left newspaper, objectively so, and while it might not be a flag-waving neo-Pravda it’s anything but a paper for classical liberals.
- otalp 9y agoIt's not about being "flag waving neo-pravdas" - incidentally their example of egregious reporting that I gave an example of, was aimed at someone who's compared the soviet union to fascist states and was fiercely critical of Lenin, Trotsky and Marx. It's about their documented antipathy against anyone left of Blair and New Labour. Call a Bush-allied war-mongering neoliberal "soft-left" if you want, but it's risible to claim that the grassroots organising and activism that Momentum and Sanders represent is Stalinist.