Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

I kind of wonder if there's anyone at Guardian nervous about articles in the opinion section reading as reporting - the one 'I' in there was "parents I talked to"

fair dos to Marina Hyde for looking back at what she said about “Sachsgate” at the time and not liking what she sees

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/19/brave-victims-russell-brand-misogyny-deserve-full-support

It's ok until she recommends a book by Sarah Ditum, apparently a notorious TERF/SWERF.

ahhh fuk i knew there had to be a catch

of course there's receipts

Kinda glossing over exactly how you covered it at the time a bit here aren't you pic.twitter.com/wQ0oS8sL58

— Rob Incognito (@MrPostsGood) September 19, 2023

fucking yikes

you have to make some thorny choices sometimes when your job is to be the most celebrated and utterly hilarious arch-cynic columnist in the UK and regularly impress some of the worst people in the country.

Hyde has mentioned that her own anger at herself had been edited out and she's requested that it be put back into the article.

The 2009 opinion piece screenshotted above is directly mentioned, but not linked to - which is fair dos imo, as it would just re-amplify the original abuse.

also it would remind the reader of what a fucking arsehole she is

so fucking grim

can't believe i got taken in!

The 2009 opinion piece screenshotted above is directly mentioned, but not linked to - which is fair dos imo, as it would just re-amplify the original abuse.

― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 bookmarkflaglink

Maybe. Or maybe she could think about not giving an opinion anymore, given what disgraceful stuff she was writing back then.

The Guardian has edited their review of Sex Education to remove the explicit transphobia that Lucy Mangan had previously included.

— Jess O'Thomson ♿️ 🏳️‍⚧️ (@jessothomson) September 21, 2023

My partner was involved in making the new series of Sex Ed so I was googling reviews yesterday and I misguidedly ended up on mumsnet, where there are multiple threads on that Mangan review. The brainworms are genuinely terrifying.

Lucy Mangan is a massive TERF but one who has flown under the radar until now.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/03/kemi-badenoch-next-tory-leader-not-bad-thing-for-party

"For all the hysteria of modern Westminster, Sunak has steered his ship from a tempest into calmer waters with some dignity."

Gets worse from that point.

"She must be right that the crippling cost of climate-change policies should be publicly argued if they are to be obeyed."

You can argue with floods or 40+ degree heat.

He missed out the part about her being an awful Christian fundamentalist bigot.

The Guardian trumpeting its anti-establishment credentials at the same time as Guardian Europe – the initiative this is launching – is prostrate in terror at the idea of anti-establishment politics of any stripe. pic.twitter.com/hQ9SlIL9pg

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) October 3, 2023

I think you’ll find that Israel simply ‘received’ 5000 rockets https://t.co/AUJnbeX0g0

— sorry for the laugh (@SimplyAYT_) October 7, 2023

As bad as she's always been tbf.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/09/labour-tame-policies-clean-energy-employment-housing-rachel-reeves

Jobcentres will stop the venomous culture of sanctions against “scroungers”, with positive support into work instead.

I have not seen anything to suggest they are going to change one thing about the UK benefits system in any way at all .. apart from pushing vulnerable people closer to death a bit harder with *positive support*. "Captain Ruthless" - lol, stfu you preposterous old fool.

"Rockstar reception for Reeves"

Mind-blowingly racist article by Howard Jacobson today, admiringly retweeted by Sodha, Freeman etc

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/15/victim-blaming-is-a-crime-to-so-many-progressives-except-when-it-comes-to-jews

Where are all these people in the West who are celebrating the Hamas attack?

living in liberal war crimes fans' heads and not even having the decency to pay rent

I knew we were heading this way when I started hearing sensible left liberal types recommending david baddiel's blackface apologetics book as the one thing you have to read if you want to understand these issues

Steve Bell is not a hill worth dying on

Toynbee, as ever, the consummate liberal.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/31/labour-ceasefire-gaza-israel-tear-apart

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/06/marine-le-pens-support-of-israel-seen-as-move-away-from-partys-antisemitic-past

Headline has changed from:

The Guardian
@guardian
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15h
Marine Le Pen’s support of Israel seen as move away from party’s antisemitic past

To:

Le Pen’s anti-Islamism and support of Israel seen as attempt to obscure antisemitic past

The more you hate muslims the less anti semitic u are, thems the rules

lol oh guardianpaws

The Guardian
@guardian
People in Gaza: how have you been affected by the Israel-Hamas war?

never let it be said the grauniad is afraid to ask the hard questions

"I don't really watch the news, but the explosions are frightening my cat which is annoying"

"the real issue is does the IDF know what a woman is?"

Oh dear...

The Guardian took down a letter written by Osama Bin Laden because people on TikTok were discussing how he correctly blamed America for its role in the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by arming Israel

The document was there for 20 + years. They removed it today. pic.twitter.com/35QTfh0FYA

— شبير (@abolishnato) November 15, 2023

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/eeEyVZiVW_M/hqdefault.jpg

as has been pointed out elsewhere, still available at that seditious fifth column The Office of the Director of National Intelligence here

let's face it, OBL wrote much less offensive and less bigoted hottakes than Sonia Sodha tbf

Giving Dorries an interview, fuck off

So they've shitcanned Steve Bell for, er, this

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4adb62a2af56178716a047868623926806fd03fd/0_45_4803_2882/master/4803.jpg?width=700&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=a09263e9f14a48da6cd4564411571f9c

(aware that Steve Bell splits opinion here, but fucking hell)

you gotta be kidding

I thought it was a bit as well! But it's from Monday. As far as I can tell, it went out in the printed paper (maybe on Tuesday)

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/series/guardian-comment-cartoon

lol this is gonna be somebody's kid again

yeah never mind the “joke” why is the art style so childishly terrible? is this deliberate? i honestly am confused by this

He says he has now been dropped. ‘It is getting pretty nigh impossible to draw this subject for the Guardian now without being accused of deploying antisemitic tropes,’ he said. This is part of a wider trend.

Bell’s intended reference was not Shylock’s pound of flesh but Lyndon B. Johnson and Vietnam. You can read the words ‘After David Levine’ on Bell’s cartoon, a reference to the cartoonist whose work was synonymous with the New York Review of Books. In 1966, LBJ posed for the cameras, revealing a foot-long scar from gall bladder surgery. Levine satirised this, depicting the mark with a Vietnam-shaped scar, a defining physical mark engrained on the man. It was one of his most famous cartoons...

I'd completely missed that Bell had been pumped, bold move to replace him with a 16 yr old kid on a work experience placement

GCSE students are capable of better work than that!