03 Aug 2012, 1:15 pm
visagrunt wrote:
Demonizing a single journal in a free press marketplace is an exercise in pissing in the wind.
Do we care that The Guardian or The Times are mouthpieces for a singular point of view? No--because we have the opportunity to take our news from a multiplicity of sources. It's perfectly correct to heap disdain on The Guardian, just as I heap disdain on The Daily Mirror. But it is the height of folly to disregard either as a source of news.
And for the North Americans in the room, here is a simple (simplistic) guide to some of the British dailies:
Frankly, the only newspaper that gets news consistently correct, in the absence of partisan bias, is The Economist.
Do we care that The Guardian or The Times are mouthpieces for a singular point of view? No--because we have the opportunity to take our news from a multiplicity of sources. It's perfectly correct to heap disdain on The Guardian, just as I heap disdain on The Daily Mirror. But it is the height of folly to disregard either as a source of news.
And for the North Americans in the room, here is a simple (simplistic) guide to some of the British dailies:
Yes Minister wrote:
The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country;
The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country;
The Times is read by people who actually do run the country;
The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country;
The Financial Times is read by people who own the country;
The Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country;
and The Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is.
Sun readers don't care who runs the country, as long as she's got big tits.
The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country;
The Times is read by people who actually do run the country;
The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country;
The Financial Times is read by people who own the country;
The Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country;
and The Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is.
Sun readers don't care who runs the country, as long as she's got big tits.
Frankly, the only newspaper that gets news consistently correct, in the absence of partisan bias, is The Economist.
So who reads the Independent?
03 Aug 2012, 1:29 pm
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04 Aug 2012, 6:07 pm
"Jews and Arabs have equal rights in Israel"?
I nearly spat fizzy drink onto my screen.
I'll listen to people who have actually been there before I listen to some pig ignorant right wing rent-a-gob.
