General / Off-Topic The "Guardian" goes into tabloid format

[Patrick_68000]

The "Guardian" and the "Observer" will adopt at the beginning of next year a smaller format and cheaper to produce. The average circulation of the "Guardian" was 154 000 in April, against 341 000 for the same month of 2005. Will the price of the newspaper go down ?

 

[Para Handy]

In my opinion the Guardian is the most reliable "news source" in the UK. Not only does it reflect my "progressive" politics but it is not afraid to also report on items that might be adverse to the "left" in the UK and beyond. It not only is strong in it's UK coverage but it has a separate Australian issue which is sadly needed in that land and it's US edition also seems well-balanced to me.

The Guardian is my browser's home-page and I pay a online subscription to the Guardian as I think it is important to support independent journalism and defend ourselves from the politically-biased ownership of other newspapers.

Newspaper prices in the UK are kept unrealistically low by the right-wing press, trying to ensure their brainwashing propaganda drives real news into the dust. So no the Guardian price will probably not be reduced when it switches from Berliner format, it needs to outsource it's print-runs just to save money as the cost of running the Berliner plants is crippling them.

(Unfortunately the BBC seems these days to be afraid to upset the government in case they get their funding cut even more so their news coverage's comprehensiveness and critical analysis is becoming less reliable to my mind. So that is no longer my go-to source for news.)

 

[Gortron]

In my opinion the Guardian is the most reliable "news source" in the UK. Not only does it reflect my "progressive" politics but it is not afraid to also report on items that might be adverse to the "left" in the UK and beyond. It not only is strong in it's UK coverage but it has a separate Australian issue which is sadly needed in that land and it's US edition also seems well-balanced to me.

The Guardian is my browser's home-page and I pay a online subscription to the Guardian as I think it is important to support independent journalism and defend ourselves from the politically-biased ownership of other newspapers.

Newspaper prices in the UK are kept unrealistically low by the right-wing press, trying to ensure their brainwashing propaganda drives real news into the dust. So no the Guardian price will probably not be reduced when it switches from Berliner format, it needs to outsource it's print-runs just to save money as the cost of running the Berliner plants is crippling them.

(Unfortunately the BBC seems these days to be afraid to upset the government in case they get their funding cut even more so their news coverage's comprehensiveness and critical analysis is becoming less reliable to my mind. So that is no longer my go-to source for news.)

That is what is so dangerous about it. They shovel it out free to people at university and aim it at the civil service (read indoctrinate). Educated people and civil servants suck it up like its readership accuse DM and Sun readers of, only they think they are more intelligent and their opinion is more valid.

The guardian is not balanced in any way shape or form. It is a left wing propaganda piece.

 

[Para Handy]

That is what is so dangerous about it. They shovel it out free to people at university and aim it at the civil service (read indoctrinate). Educated people and civil servants suck it up like its readership accuse DM and Sun readers of, only they think they are more intelligent and their opinion is more valid.

The guardian is not balanced in any way shape or form. It is a left wing propaganda piece.

That is abject nonsense, you obviously don't read it. I can assure you that most of the civil servants I knew and worked with were Torygraph, Times and FT readers.

They have previously supported the Liberal Democrats.

They frequently publish articles critical of the left.

Muesli-eating liberals is the general opinion of it's readership.


EDIT - P. S. Welcome to my "ignore Tory apologist" list (it's becoming quite big).

 

[AJW]

That is what is so dangerous about it. They shovel it out free to people at university and aim it at the civil service (read indoctrinate). Educated people and civil servants suck it up like its readership accuse DM and Sun readers of, only they think they are more intelligent and their opinion is more valid.

The guardian is not balanced in any way shape or form. It is a left wing propaganda piece.

Sorry to be controversial here, but there is actually a good case for the argument that educated peoples' opinions are more valid...