Twitter is a great place to gain news of what is going on in the world. The news is often wrong, deliberately fake, and often just as slanted one way or the other by the publisher. That said one thing that has become obvious is the decline of some newspapers, the Guardian in particular.
Once a famous Liberal paper, noted for the left of centre stance, good journalism, and objective writing now it has dissolved into a middle class women's mag in which news is less important than the daily whine of a wee girl about her hard life, even though she has never done a days work in her life. The online version is over filled with the virus, understandably to some extent, but still too much. The pandemic means less income for struggling papers and now the female editor, who had gained some cash from readers, watches her sales drop and lowers the quality in a desperate down market lunge. Twitter is filled with Guardian stories often good ones, surrounded by items like the one above. "Birx's ever-changing scarves captivate the internet." I have not added the comments found below this item, mostly from men, but the general idea is that 'this is not news.' Sometimes it appears the 'Guardian' wishes to be the 'Daily Mail!' This follows the general trend of the media in which journalism is replaced by a down market approach, see the dramatic failure at the 'Daily Telegraph' which now sells less than the 'Times.' Murdoch's press is actually improving with changes at the 'Times' and 'Sunday Times,' and a willingness to use journalism, even though as yet they do not upset Rupert. The 'Times' sales are steady it appears.
3 comments:
The decline of 'The Guardian' started slowly and has accelerated ever since until it is now like the flight path of Eddie the Eagle.
The claptrap trivia... the endless recognition of injustice only when it can be labelled as racist, sexist or one of the isms...not just 'first world' problems, but 'moneyed middle class first world' problems...and the failure under Rusbridger to resist the security services developed into becoming a mouthpiece for the powers that be under Viner...not to speak of the Zionism.
On the scarves issue...Americans must be obsessed by them...I knew of a French woman who moved to New York and made a good living giving classes in how to wear scarves like a French woman...A cynical friend said that it was probably more a case of a dance of the seven scarves - with six missing.
I read The Guardian for about 40 years until about 10 years ago when I stopped taking it for two reasons, one the quality of the journalism had declined and secondly because I felt that it had priced itself out of the market. I now read the i.
However I have recently been reading the Guardian online and doing the crossword, and although this is free I have contributed.
Fly, The Guardian is flagging badly. The virus has hit the sales. Scarves, the lass at the museum introduced them and the number of women who bought them!
Dave, Indeed a friend told me the 'i' was good. It was not when I first saw it. But it is indeed the best at the moment.
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