It's always amusing to judge newspapers
by reference to their (pretty distant) pasts.
This for example, from wiki, re the Guardian:
Post-war: "The paper's then editor, A.P. Wadsworth, so loathed Labour's left-wing champion Aneurin Bevan, who had made a reference to getting rid of "Tory Vermin" in a speech "and the hate-gospellers of his entourage" that it encouraged readers to vote Conservative and remove Attlee's post-war Labour government. The newspaper opposed the creation of the National Health Service as it feared the state provision of healthcare would "eliminate selective elimination" and lead to an increase of congenitally deformed and feckless people."
Completely irrelevant to my view of the newspaper in its current form, but still, I think we're probably better off agreeing with Roy Greenslade (warning - link to the Guardian - User Posted Link
Posted By: paulg on February 1st 2018 at 14:03:11
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- It's always amusing to judge newspapers (General Chat) - paulg, Feb 1, 14:03:11
- Indeed, but not withstanding the Greenslade defence (General Chat) - Tressells Broadbrush, Feb 1, 16:13:53
- how about this (General Chat) - paulg, Feb 1, 15:48:08
- Very interesting. (General Chat) - Ken Breadstick, Feb 1, 16:06:09
- and quite a lot of support (General Chat) - paulg, Feb 1, 16:12:19
- I particularly liked the Beveridge quotation .... (General Chat) - paulg, Feb 1, 16:19:23
- and quite a lot of support (General Chat) - paulg, Feb 1, 16:12:19
- i meant that as a reply to KB (n/m) (General Chat) - paulg, Feb 1, 15:48:56
- Very interesting. (General Chat) - Ken Breadstick, Feb 1, 16:06:09
- Link gives a 404 Error (n/m) (General Chat) - Ken Breadstick, Feb 1, 15:07:10
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