Guardian gets it wrong – 5 times
How many times will the Guardian have to apologise to other newspapers for telling lies? It has done so five times already. At least it has apologised each time. But only after legal action was brought against it.
- The Guardian got a story about Maurice Glasman writing for the Sun on Sunday wrong (23 Feb 2012)
- It apologised after incorrectly accusing the Sun of accessing Gordon Brown’s medical records (15 July 2011)
- The newspaper also got it wrong in claiming that a Sun reporter doorstepped a Levenson Inquiry barrister (23 Nov 2011)
- On the same day it it admitted that it was wrong over claiming that NoW journalists deleted Milly Dowler’s voice mail (23 Nov 2011)
- It quietly altered an article which falsely alleged the Sun ran a countdown on Charlotte Church reaching 16 (Jan 2011)
Each time it seems either to have followed some vendetta against other newspapers or failed to follow standard journalistic practise in checking sources or getting the subject to respond to a claim.
But then I’m sure that all the customers at the Raccoon Arms already know that Guardian is less a newspaper than the Daily Sport. You just have to read CiF to realise that the comments there are sometimes even more outlandish than the stories that appeared in the Sport.
SBML
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March 6, 2012 at 16:21 -
You are not even counting the spelling and grammatical mistakes !!
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March 6, 2012 at 16:43 -
I think the Guardian should be allowed a completely free rein.It shows lefties for the lying hypocritical people they really are.Politics of spite spring to mind.
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March 6, 2012 at 16:45 -
Is it spite – or is it rampant colonialism? They seem very happy to import slaves and have them working on minimum wages doing all the unspeakable jobs – selling Macdonalds, digging turnips, cockle picking.
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March 6, 2012 at 19:56 -
@ Anna
The Graun – having slammed Tesco and other firms for exploiting unpaid labour – is quite prepared to do the same:
http://order-order.com/2012/02/28/guardian-slave-masters-recruiting/
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March 6, 2012 at 16:46 -
All newspapers tell lies. The Guardian apologies.
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March 6, 2012 at 16:51 -
I’ve known the facts of a particular situation, and read the reporting on it. Chalk and cheese. And I don’t see why that would be true only for the situation I knew about; it seems to me that it’s likely to be true for all the “news”. And then I realised that the purpose of “news” is to fill the white space between the advertisements (which are legally required to have at least some semblance of truth, even though they stretch it to breaking point), without which people wouldn’t buy the newspaper.
I rather think that this is true of all newspapers.
I read the Telegraph; first the Matt cartoon, then the readers letters. Sometimes I look at the TV guide. All of those are usually correct; I assume that the advertisements are misleading and the news is invented.
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March 6, 2012 at 21:07 -
Ah, yes – Telegraph letters. If anybody from overseas wishes to study the British character, the Telegraph letters page would be an excellent place to start.
My all-time favourite, from about 2007 –
“Sir – Gordon Brown as Prime Minister? The man’s shirt collar curls.”
How insightful that turned out to be….
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March 6, 2012 at 23:23 -
“Sir – Gordon Brown as Prime Minister? The man’s shirt collar curls.”
Shame they didn’t publish the rest of that letter.
“And so do his toes. His odd socked feet look as if they would roll upwards like the wicked witch of the north. Small children burst into tears at the approach of his child catcher like visage.
Flowers curl up and die and grass turns yellow as he passes. Dogs and birds flee in panic.
Nature senses the looming force of destruction in him and is warned. A walking human tsunami of cataclysmic annihilation stalks the corridors of Westminster.And his belts never matches his shoes, which I am reasonably certain, do not often match left and right.
Yours
William Quango MP
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March 6, 2012 at 17:06 -
Reading the comments threads of various articles on the Grauniad and the Tellyrubbygraph is an enlightening but disturbing experience. At least 60% of the contributors appear positively unhinged.
It must be something in the water over there.
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March 6, 2012 at 19:00 -
Maybe they’re not hacking the right ‘phones?
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March 6, 2012 at 19:19 -
I gave up on The Guardian when the Orwelian Two Minutes Hate tome of CiF threads started being reproduced in the featured articles. Who is the editor these days? Someone called Alinksky perhaps?
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March 6, 2012 at 19:53 -
When one thinks logically about this, it is not as if all journalists stay loyal/working at the same newspaper their whole lives. Each newspaper is not a separate entity, so it is not surprising that bad journalism and sloppy practices pass from one to the other.
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March 6, 2012 at 20:09 -
The Guardian is a CIA mouth piece, so how can you expect high standards of journalism. Journo whores is what they are guv! My apologies to all ladies of the night, who are far more honourable.
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March 6, 2012 at 20:33 -
But, but, their adverts make them out to be inscrutable and in tune with the pulse of the nation!
No, you must be mistaken, SBML.
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March 6, 2012 at 22:18 -
I saw that advert a couple of days back, and thought it was the most fucked-up thing I’d seen since Richard Curtis’ ‘let’s destroy all the oiky children who don’t believe in global warming’ vid.
First I thought it was some skit about how the pig community were being demonised by the wicked police. Then I thought it was some sob-story about how the poor wolf (like those poor disadvantaged souls who had to steal themselves some new trainers and flat-screen TVs last August) was savagely murdered by a bunch of vigilantes. Then I realised it was a clarion call for revolution, and a call for all those having difficulty managing their mortgage payments to rise up and smash the system, man!
You’d have to have inherited your house in Hampstead to even think that an advert like that would not be deranged.
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March 7, 2012 at 11:41 -
I saw that advert (I wasn’t actually watching the telly, I was reading a book, but ladysolly had it on, I don’t remember why, but I do know she likes Masterchef). It came straight after an advert for one of the insurance comparison web sites, I can’t remember which, they all look the same to me. Anyway, that comparison site ad used the three little pigs story (I forget what the point was, possibly that they should have insured their houses?), and then this ad used it too, so I thought it was part of the same ad, but the flavour of the ad was very different, and eventually I realised that the two were back to back probably by accident. I didn’t work out who the second ad was advertising, or even what category of goods or services they were promoting.
I guess I’m just so stupid that even advertisements are wasted on me.
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March 7, 2012 at 08:57 -
Ha Ha OK it’s a Rothschild/Vatican mouth piece – same meat, different gravy – sorry piggies. I wonder if the Fabians had a hand in the story line of the video.
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March 6, 2012 at 20:34 -
Guardian a CIA mouthpiece? Recruitment standards at Langley must have dropped alarmingly.
A disinformation campaign would, how ever paranoidly fanciful, at least be logically plausible.
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March 7, 2012 at 09:06 -
Recruitment? Don’t you mean pre-programming and pre-selecting and then appointing? Where have you been for the last three hundred years?
Carry on snoring Mr Van Winkle.Real meaning of paranoid = the innate ability (obliviously lacking in most people today due to communist state conditioning in what purports to be our schools) to join the dots of varied pieces of information and make a coherent whole.
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March 7, 2012 at 10:51 -
The Guardian is almost always wrong about everything – you would think that they would get a good clear picture of things from the enormous moral highround on which they sit – but they are so blinded by their natural assurance that they aren’t nasty money grubbing journalists like the rest that truth doesn’t really matter to them.
I occasionally play a game where I post something provocative on CIF and get out my stop watch to see how long it takes to get moderated. -
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March 7, 2012 at 12:59 -
“The Guardian is almost always wrong about everything.”
Not so, they are doing a job and they’re good at it, just like our politicians. ORDER OUT OF CHAOS is their mantra. So much so it’s printed on the back of the one dollar bill. Destabilising confusion is their game – straight out of the Soviet manuals.
Once you begin to understand that there is no such thing as government incompetence, a glimmer of light should begin to appear in your mind.
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