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The business model, sadly, is to be the Daily Mail of the left. The number of news reports relative to op-eds continues to shrink, and the op-eds themselves ha
by headmelted 7y ago
The business model, sadly, is to be the Daily Mail of the left.
The number of news reports relative to op-eds continues to shrink, and the op-eds themselves have swung much harder to the left than before.
It's clearly working for them financially, but it's a different beast now altogether.
- mhh__ 7y ago> The business model, sadly, is to be the Daily Mail of the left. Bullshit. The Guardian is orders of magnitude a better newspaper than the Daily Mail. What major stories have the Daily Mail broken in the last 10 years? The Daily Mail is not considered a reliable source on wikipedia, Comparing the Guardian to that is quite the insult
- headmelted 7y agoWhat major stories have the Guardian broken in the last two? Obtain an issue from even five or six years ago when they were breaking the Citizenfour story and one from this past week. Is it comparable to the Daily Mail? No. Is it moving in that direction? Demonstrably so. Read an Owen Jones column or two and tell me it's still a bastion of reasoned perspective. The Daily Mail is a rag. That the Guardian is trying to become one to get back in the black is tragic.
- mhh__ 7y agoThe Guardian did the Snowden papers, The phone hacking scandal and were also involved with the Panama papers as well for starters.
- headmelted 7y agoWe'll respectfully disagree I guess. The Panama papers was four years ago and (like Citizenfour/Snowden before it) leaked to the Guardian based on their historical reputation rather than anything recent. I don't like saying anything against them as I really think they're the last decent paper left in this part of the world. It just seems like whoever is in charge these days has thought "if you can't beat em, join em".