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Despite being a progressive-leaning person I find the Guardian's recent political correctness and value-signalling to be grating, and have been looking for an a
by fineline 9y ago
Despite being a progressive-leaning person I find the Guardian's recent political correctness and value-signalling to be grating, and have been looking for an alternative and less hyperbolic sources of news. It's like they abandoned their detachment, independence and integrity in a bid to become the mirror image of the Murdoch press. I guess there's a good market for that, a large and growing choir to preach to.
- delhanty 9y ago>Despite being a progressive-leaning person I find the Guardian's recent political correctness and value-signalling to be grating +1 That's (part of) what I'm trying to say. The other part is that, though I'm not all a fan of Facebook, The Guardian (as a competitor) clearly has a self-interested agenda with these anti-Facebook articles. A few years ago, they used to run a lot of snide, sneering articles about "bloggers". Now that it turns out that blogs have modulo-zero impact on their bottom line, their focus has turned to Facebook et al.