Alright - let's have the truth...

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Read about the scott trust, the guardian has no such financial constraints.

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So don't they have to sell copy to survive? That would make me very suspicious!

 

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So don't they have to sell copy to survive?

[/ QUOTE ] They do, of course, or they'd go bust. But they're owned by a not for profit trust which allows them a rare degree of editorial independence and means that they're not trying to cross-sell other products from companies owned by their proprietor.

The range of their contributors is widespread and crosses the political spectrum from the right wing of the Tory party to the Hard Left. Give it a try, go on...... /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

Oh, and did I mention that they have Steve Bell?

 

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As much as I love Steve Bell - he and Scarfe must be the defining cartoonists of my adult life - and as much as I recognise the attractions of significant parts of the old Grauniad, I cannot allow the slur on the loyal readers of Her Majesty's Daily Telegraph to go unanswered.

Our crossword is second to none. Forget the intellectual obscurity of the Guardian - just how many Venezuelan mime artists is one supposed to be familiar with? - and the Greats Tripos elitism of the Times. Ours can be completed by any man or woman of reasonable intelligence and experience within a reasonable time.

And our sports coverage is superlative; how many times have I lent my sports section to a befuddled Guardian reader confused at the anodyne and equivocal crap that masquerades as sports reporting in the Berliner bin rag that presumes to assume the past glory of the Manchester Guardian?

Of course editorially the DT is sometimes somewhat astray, but one treats this with the same sort of indulgence as opinions from a senior officer mess guest from another age. And I seem the recall the Grauniad's gung-ho unequivocal support for Swiss Tony's little Mesopotamian adventure, n'est pas?

Still, I'll buy the Guardian before the Times if the DTs have all gone. Know thine enemy! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

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Generally, I read whatever someone else has discarded on the bus / tube/ table, though I draw the line at eating their chips for them first.

On occasion I have had to endure the Daily Mail (serves me right, I know), but I also read an interesting thesis on the difference between brain sections of violent criminals and 'normal' folk (they've got an underdeveloped area somewhere). Given a choice, I'd pick up the Guardian before any of the other dailies. The saddest has to be certain women's magazines. I miserably failed the "which brands are you loyal to / how attractive are you quiz"... devastated...