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The guardian is left leaning culturally but actually fairly centrist economically. They get stick from Tories who call them elitist Londoners (this is deeply i
by mhh__ 5y ago
The guardian is left leaning culturally but actually fairly centrist economically.
They get stick from Tories who call them elitist Londoners (this is deeply ironic, but that's for another comment) and even more stick from proper lefties who don't believe they are on their side enough.
- frabbit 5y agoAnd the Guardian has been shifting inexorably to the neoliberal position as it has started to rely more and more on US and Australian readership. Their rampant bias against the only viable socialist, anti-imperialist party (Labour under Corbyn) was notable and they've followed this up with a disgusting lack of activism around the torture by imprisonment of Julian Assange. In short: the Guardian is anything but left-wing.
- mandmandam 5y agoYep. Their own columnists have said this, including Pilger: https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/john-pilger-says-guardian-column-was-axed-in-purge-of-journalists-saying-what-the-paper-no-longer-says/ https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/john-pilger-says-guardian-col...