They took a serious swerve towards neoliberalism over the Snowden stuff. They had a bunch of it stored on hard drives so our secret police turned up and destroyed the hard drives. Then management changed, they 'let go' all but a couple of their left wing journalists and replaced them with enlightened centrists and blairites writing condescending articles about the poors from their Tuscan villas. They also run a bunch of sponsored articles from the gates foundation about how child labour is good actually.
They were never great, but they did at least use to use something like a critical journalistic lens to analyse stuff like foreign policy etc. Now they just toe the line and offer up a couple of halfway decent takes from the few pet neutered left wing journalists they grudgingly keep on the payroll to keep up appearances.
Thanks for the history. It's always good for a laugh now because just when I think neoliberal brainworms have reached their zenith, they are always astonishly able to prove me wrong . The pro child labour piece was a personal favorite of mine.
Jonathan Cook wrote for the Guardian for over ten years, first as staff and then as a freelancer and is a great source for the destruction and poisonous modern nature of The Guardian, as well as writing a lot of award winning journalism on the Israel-Palestine conflict.
The paper I assume was genuinely radical back in the day since iirc Manchester was at the heart of the British labour movement. Now they have to half heartedly pretend they're still left wing while having essentially the same politics as the economist.
My understanding, and I am not British, is that there was a vibrant leftist journalism in the UK, but that it has gone the way of the dinosaur. The Guardian today is basically ideologically neoliberal.
The Guardian is my main source of comedy. There is no greater nexus for truly absurd lib takes than The Guardian.
Curious how long they are going to able to keep this charade going.
They took a serious swerve towards neoliberalism over the Snowden stuff. They had a bunch of it stored on hard drives so our secret police turned up and destroyed the hard drives. Then management changed, they 'let go' all but a couple of their left wing journalists and replaced them with enlightened centrists and blairites writing condescending articles about the poors from their Tuscan villas. They also run a bunch of sponsored articles from the gates foundation about how child labour is good actually.
They were never great, but they did at least use to use something like a critical journalistic lens to analyse stuff like foreign policy etc. Now they just toe the line and offer up a couple of halfway decent takes from the few pet neutered left wing journalists they grudgingly keep on the payroll to keep up appearances.
Thanks for the history. It's always good for a laugh now because just when I think neoliberal brainworms have reached their zenith, they are always astonishly able to prove me wrong . The pro child labour piece was a personal favorite of mine.
link?
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/nov/06/child-labour-doesnt-have-to-be-exploitation-it-gave-me-life-skills
I think that's the one that people are referring to.
"Growing up in Africa taught me to be self-reliant and resilient. Putting children to work must be seen in local context"
Jonathan Cook wrote for the Guardian for over ten years, first as staff and then as a freelancer and is a great source for the destruction and poisonous modern nature of The Guardian, as well as writing a lot of award winning journalism on the Israel-Palestine conflict.
The paper I assume was genuinely radical back in the day since iirc Manchester was at the heart of the British labour movement. Now they have to half heartedly pretend they're still left wing while having essentially the same politics as the economist.
My understanding, and I am not British, is that there was a vibrant leftist journalism in the UK, but that it has gone the way of the dinosaur. The Guardian today is basically ideologically neoliberal.
knowing that many UK tabloids used to be left wing blew my mind
Murdoch press is a hell of a drug