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Well, if we're doing quick parody headlines as stand-ins, it's actually impossible to out-Guardian the Guardian: "I dread the day my daughter's poos get smalle

Well, if we're doing quick parody headlines as stand-ins, it's actually impossible to out-Guardian the Guardian: "I dread the day my daughter's poos get smaller" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/08/dread-daughter-poos-smaller-girl-conform https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/08/dread-... "Tea is a national disgrace" "Robots are racist and sexist, just like the people who created them" In any case, good on them for proving out this revenue model, hopefully it's sustainable and we see gigantic yellow-orange beg-boxes on more online media (seriously)

jririri82838 9y ago
Cherry picking from the “opinion” section is hardly a representation of “Guardian as a whole relative to Murdoch’s 3 mouthpieces as a whole” I’d rather the business model of the web be “beg boxes” out in the open versus “opt-in to data collection or stay offline”
arthur_pryor 9y ago
> "Robots are racist and sexist, just like the people who created them" to quote the simpsons, "it's funny because it's true." (still, funny comment, i upvoted, fwiw)
tomarr 9y ago
I do normally love to hate on the Guardian, but that is from their 'comment is free' opinion section, rather than the main news site. BBC and many others have these, which are basically just magazine format and of little journalistic value (although to be fair they do not claim to be).
MarkMc 9y ago
My favourite: "How ancient lentils reveal the origins of social inequality" https://amp.theguardian.com/science/2017/oct/11/lentils-origins-of-social-inequality https://amp.theguardian.com/science/2017/oct/11/lentils-orig...
- a_bonobo 9y ago
  But that one comes from the researchers themselves: >The weakening of a strong communal ideology surrounding food production and storage increased the potential for dominant families to emerge, either through consistently greater success, or through force or unequal conditions of exchange. This in turn created the preconditions of specialisation and social inequality upon which urban life was founded in Mesopotamia. (and that conjecture was based on lentils found by archaeologists)

jririri82838 9y ago

Cherry picking from the “opinion” section is hardly a representation of “Guardian as a whole relative to Murdoch’s 3 mouthpieces as a whole” I’d rather the business model of the web be “beg boxes” out in the open versus “opt-in to data collection or stay offline”

arthur_pryor 9y ago

> "Robots are racist and sexist, just like the people who created them" to quote the simpsons, "it's funny because it's true." (still, funny comment, i upvoted, fwiw)

tomarr 9y ago

I do normally love to hate on the Guardian, but that is from their 'comment is free' opinion section, rather than the main news site. BBC and many others have these, which are basically just magazine format and of little journalistic value (although to be fair they do not claim to be).

MarkMc 9y ago

My favourite: "How ancient lentils reveal the origins of social inequality" https://amp.theguardian.com/science/2017/oct/11/lentils-origins-of-social-inequality https://amp.theguardian.com/science/2017/oct/11/lentils-orig...

a_bonobo 9y ago
But that one comes from the researchers themselves: >The weakening of a strong communal ideology surrounding food production and storage increased the potential for dominant families to emerge, either through consistently greater success, or through force or unequal conditions of exchange. This in turn created the preconditions of specialisation and social inequality upon which urban life was founded in Mesopotamia. (and that conjecture was based on lentils found by archaeologists)