Guardian

[huncamunca]

Given the huge piles of Guardians that pile up in the various LL & ED newsagenst on a saturday & the willing vitims that fight to get the last copy at Budgens at 7.PM, what would ED choose to read should the Guardian go out of business ?

[silverfox]

The Beano - less spelling mistakes without losing the fantasy element

[Pearson]

What is this "guardian" you speak of..

Surely the Daily Mail is ED's paper of choice these days!

[katie1997]

There are so many Guardians left piled up in any given shop towards the end of the day, I sometimes wonder if that many people in ED do actually read it? Seriously. :-S

[BrandNewGuy]

silverfox Wrote:

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> The Beano - less spelling mistakes without losing

> the fantasy element

fewer

[Guest]

BrandNewGuy Wrote:

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> > The Beano - less spelling mistakes without

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> fewer

Well, if we're being picky, that should be:

"Fewer."

You started it.

[huncamunca]

As outlined earlier- Huncamuncas law of pedantic fascism in action

Please, lets keep this on topic

[Guest]

Sod off; it's a public forum.

[PeckhamRose]

The Stage or The Radio Times...

Oh okay then. South London Press. Ha.

[RosieH]

You're all just jealous because you read papers for squares.

EDF, it's time to get over this masturbatory Guardian-bashing. After all, we right-minded folks don't spend hours obsessing over your piss-ant little nazi rags.

[Loz]

katie1997 Wrote:

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> There are so many Guardians left piled up in any

> given shop towards the end of the day, I sometimes

> wonder if that many people in ED do actually read

> it? Seriously. :-S

Not so many years ago you couldn't get a Guardian in ED after midday. Daily Telegraphs, on the other hand, were in plentiful supply. All of a sudden, the Gruin was everywhere.

I think it is shonky distribution rather than lack of readers.

[Annette Curtain]

I for one love the wall of Guardians left at the news agents, bring more I say.

Nothing better to hide behind from the tide of cr4p swilling round in the tory rags.

Ooooo and dont* forget it's a bumper sized one on Saturday, garnished on Sunday with The Observer.

Nette:)

p.s. What time is it ?

^{* nods to Bob Dylan}

[Atticus]

When buying The Guardian in the local newsagents, I find a copy of Razzle in addition, helps shield my embarrassment.

[BrandNewGuy]

Ms B Wrote:

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It wasn't a sentence.

[BrandNewGuy]

Back on topic, there are good uses for piles of unsold copies of The Guardian. Here's a reminiscence from Russo-American critic Dimitry Orlov: "My grandfather had a donkey while he was living in Tashkent in Central Asia during World War II. There was nothing much for the donkey to eat, but, as a member of the Communist Party, my grandfather had a subscription to Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper, and so that's what the donkey ate. Apparently, donkeys can digest any kind of cellulose, even when it's loaded with communist propaganda. If I had a donkey, I would feed it the Wall Street Journal..."

[Brendan]

Socialist Worker supplemented with Heat.

[MrBen]

Reality check - it's just not that polarised. There's good and bad in all broadsheets. You get the extremes but there's also a ton of good non-politically slanted stuff. Not every piece in the Guardian is written for militant lesbian socialist hipsters and neither is The Telegraph a hot bed of nazi fox hunting capitalists.

I frequently buy both but avoid the slushy Family section in the Guardian as much as Homes & Properties in the Telegraph. I'll even read the Mail for pure entertainment and disbelief value if I find one on the bus.

[BrandNewGuy]

I used to buy The Guardian every day and The Observer every Sunday. I don't any more because they give it all away online.

What's more, they used to be able to take the p*ss out of themselves and the Guardian-reader stereotype, which I thought was good, but they're far too po-faced and up themselves nowadays, IMHO.

[paragon]

BrandNewGuy Wrote:

> What's more, they used to be able to take the p*ss

> out of themselves and the Guardian-reader

> stereotype, which I thought was good, but they're

> far too po-faced and up themselves nowadays, IMHO.

Disagree with this - i am daily reader and they quite often take the p1ss out of themselves. Mostly in G2 though.