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Guardian Australia fails to understand the Aussie dollar and how Sony sells its PS4

AS you may or may not know The Guardian has just started up an online section devoted to Australia. And it’s terribly comforting to know that even on the other side of the world the lefties are subject to the same damn delusions as they are here. For example, we’ve got a complaint about how the Sony PS 4 is going to be more expensive in Oz that it is in other countries:

All that, and it cost $100 USD less, too, coming in at $399. It seemed like Sony could do no wrong. But for all this fanfare and literal standing ovation, there’s a problem for Australian gamers. The PS4 is set to retail at a tooth-grindingly expensive $549 because of… reasons? That’s too much. I’ve checked. You can too. Sony haven’t explained their unique pricing structure yet, but it seems like a fairly arbitrary dollop of Australian tax.

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Posted: 25th, June 2013 | In: Money | Comment (1)


Newsnight jumps the shark hunt: 99% of Clark County, Ohio, viewers polled say Ian Katz must go

clark county ohio

THE new editor of Newsnight, the BBC news show that spiked the Jimmy Savile expose, is the Guardian’s Ian Katz.  Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman said in the wake of the Savile debacle that BBC’s news division had been “taken over by radio … Helen Boaden, a radio person. Steve Mitchell, a radio person. Peter Rippon was a radio person. These people belong to a different kind of culture.”

How will a newspaper man with no experience of telly work out, then?

Guido Fawkes notes:

Fair, balanced and impartial Ian Katz will have no trouble fitting in at his new role as Newsnight editor … Katz certainly has top drawer left-wing credentials. Back in 2004, he was editor of the Guardian’s G2 magazine during their infamous ‘Operation Clark County’ plot to swing the state of Ohio in favour of John Kerry and against George W. Bush. Katz organised thousands of letters written by lefty Britons to be sent to individual voters in Ohio, imploring them to cast their ballot for Kerry. The result was uproar, a near diplomatic incident, and victory for Bush.

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Posted: 20th, May 2013 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment


Automated Guardian comment generator

EVER read the comments pages at the Guardian? Tom Forth does. And he’s here to help with his automated Guardian comment generator. The gap between fact and parody is very small. If you doubt it, read our Ed’s From the Message Boards in Private Eye magazine.

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Posted: 13th, February 2013 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)


The Guardian wants richer unpaid interns to apply for its work placement scheme

WHAT does the Guardian think of unpaid internships?

‘Join the fight against unpaid internships’ – Unless students refuse to work for free, employers will continue to exploit them, argues campaigner Libby Page

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Posted: 9th, January 2013 | In: Money | Comment (1)


Guardian’s Larry Elliott gets numbers wrong on meat eaters

YES, yes, of course we should all go off an become vegetarians. Far too many people about eating too much meat and the only way we can feed us all is with mung beans. And lentils.

This may or may not be true but what pisses me off is the numbers used to justify this. Larry Elliott in The Guardian this morning for example:

Meat consumption is rising in China, India and Brazil, and since it takes 7kg of grain to produce 1kg of beef (and 4kg to produce 1kg of pork), this is adding to global demand.

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Posted: 3rd, September 2012 | In: Money, The Consumer | Comments (4)


Guardian Produces Three Errors In One Headline

ANORAK readers may suppose us to be in awe of the Guardian. The paper has published a story with three errors in one headline.

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Posted: 23rd, November 2011 | In: Reviews | Comments (4)


Guardian Tweets 9/11 Live On Twitter: Bad Taste Porn Crashes And Burns @AuschwitzLive

THE Guardian wonders what 9/11 would have looked like in real time on Twitter. What would the mass murder and horror have looked like on the social network? So. The Guardian creates a Twitter feed called @911tenyearsago. It will guess what people would have said in 140 characters or fewer as thousands were murdered. You can already read thousands of FBI pager messages on Wikileaks. But the Guardian loves Twitter. And if this experiment is a success it could set up a Facebook page and see how many people “like” 9/11 and then repeat the exercise in live Tweets from @ImLiveAtAuschwitz and @OnBoardTitanic.

The Tweeting begins:

This account of the events is now ending 3 hours ago · reply · retweet · favorite

George Bush – preparing to meet children at a Florida elementary school – is told an aircraft has struck the World Trade Center3 hours ago · reply · retweet · favorite

An attendant on Flight 175 tells a United Airlines office via airphone that flight has been hijacked, with both pilots killed 3 hours ago · reply · retweet · favorite

Flight 77 is hijacked3 hours ago · reply · retweet · favorite

The first news reports of the crash. CNN tells its viewers: ‘You are looking at obviously a very disturbing live shot there’3 hours ago · reply · retweet · favorite

Flight 11 crashes into the north tower of the World Trade Center, between floors 93 and 993 hours ago · reply · retweet · favorite

Posted: 11th, September 2011 | In: Technology | Comment


The Guardian: Only 130 Years Out of Date

IT’S possible that there’s some sort of black hole in The Guardian, one which distorts time itself, so that their editorials sometimes seem to come from another century. This is most noticeable when they start to talk about economics. And yes, they’re at it again today:

Like it or not, real shoppers do not operate like the calculating consumer that economists conjecture; instead they value things subjectively.

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Posted: 28th, July 2011 | In: Money | Comment (1)


We Just Knew The Guardian Would Come Up With The Answer!

IT’S quite stunning how the Guardian manages to solve each and every problem for us. If the little scrotes are mis-behaving then it’s Sure Start for them: bankers getting out of hand then tax them more. If there’s evil in the human heart then we must understand, empathise: unless it’s done by white men of course in which case more tax is the answer again.

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Posted: 27th, July 2011 | In: Money | Comment (1)


Why The BBC And The Guardian Are Gunning For Murdoch And The Sun: That News Of The World Ethos Is Not Dead Yet

THE News of The World is dead. The BBC’s 10 o’ clock news leads with the story. The BBC’s Question Time leads with the story. The media loves talking about the media more than anything. It’s all about access, you see, and rivalries. Rupert Murdoch’s Sky rivals the BBC’s news. The BBC has publishes no newspaper but it does have close links with the Guardian. Murdoch has the powerful Sun. The Guardian went for Murdoch on the phone hacking scandal and – GOTCHA! – they got him. Job done? Not quite.

We told you not to be shocked.

Autonomous Minds takes a view:

THE churnalists are up in arms.  The carefully constructed media narrative has it that the News of the World, and by extension the entire Rupert Murdoch empire, has singlehandedly ruined the reputation of journalism.

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Posted: 7th, July 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (22)


Guardian Columnist Kia Abdullah Tweets For Joy That Max Boomgaarden-Cook, Bruno Melling-Firth And Conrad Quashie Are Dead

HATS off to Guardian columnist (well, she writes online at Comment Is Free) Kia Abdullah for forming an award opinion that readers can sink their chops into and tackle about in the comments sections and on Twitter. Abdullah says she “smiled” when she learnt that students Max Boomgaarden-Cook, 20, Bruno Melling-Firth and Conrad Quashie, both 19, had died in a coach crash in Thailand last Tuesday. She Tweeted:

“Is it really awful that I don’t feel any sympathy for anyone killed on a gap year? I actually smiled when I saw that they had double-barrelled surnames. Sociopath?”

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Posted: 3rd, July 2011 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (10)


Guardian Comment Network Aims To Own Your Independent Blog – Comment Is Free

CAN The Guardian take control of blogs? The Guardian says there are “many bloggers out there who are often just as good as Guardian journalists – if not better – at spotting stories and responding quickly and imaginatively to them“.

High praise, indeed. So. Why not just hire the bloggers as the paper’s journalists?

Natalie Hanman adds:

We hope to act as curators for the best of this content, while acknowledging that we as editors are not the only ones who can or should decide on the direction of Comment is free on any given day.

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Posted: 8th, June 2011 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)


Guardian Cranks Up Its Fight With Julian Assange Over Guantanamo Files

THE files on Guantanmo Bay were not leaked to it and the New York Times by Wikileaks, says the Guardian’s David Leigh.It was Leigh who said of Assange:

“As an IT guy [Assange] is a genius… as a journalist he’s an amateur… and a reckless amateur.”

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Posted: 25th, April 2011 | In: Reviews | Comment


Guardian Readers Agree that Castro’s Cuba Cure’s Hurricanes

CARLOS Eire tells Guardian readers about the state of life in Cuba. It’s not all that great. Castro’s brother is in charge, reforms are a joke and repression is all the rage. But Guardian readers see that a dictatorship as no bad thing. Like Elizabeth Farrelly says, communism gets things done.

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Posted: 21st, April 2011 | In: Politicians | Comment


Why The Guardian Is Happy To Look Down On Gawker

JOHN Naughton explains the Guardian’s prejudices and why Gawker does it better. See if you can read this and spot the Guardian pandering to its own readers’ bias?

Among the phenomena he [James Fallows] examined were the relentless trivialisation implicit in soundbite politics, the obsessive insistence that every political issue – no matter how complex – has only two sides and the tendency to treat every political controversy as if it were a football game and every election a horse race. But, en passant, Fallows also highlighted an equally disturbing trend – towards market-driven news: that is, news agendas that are driven not by some professional assessment of what’s important and relevant, but by research into what viewers like and respond to. Put crudely, such an approach leads to news programming that plays down politics and economics in favour of coverage of crime, celebrity and sport. News-U-Like, as it were.

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Posted: 18th, April 2011 | In: Reviews | Comment


Guardian Bemoans Climate Change Bias Reporting At Fox: Irony Overload

HUGE news in the Guardian that Fox News has an agenda on global warming. You might suppose this will give Guardian readers a chance to see another side to the manmade global warming argument.

The Guardian makes no mention of that, preferring to quote a Media Matters shocker that, Fox News’s Washington bureau chief, Bill Sammon, “imposed an order to make time for climate sceptics within 15 minutes of the airing of a story about a scientific report showing that 2000-2009 was on track to be the hottest decade on record”.

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Posted: 16th, December 2010 | In: Reviews | Comment


Guardian’s Harriet Sherwood Gets It Wrong On Israel And The Jews

HARRIET Sherwood brings Guardian readers news of Israel – and she gets it wrong. Says she:

Israel has approved a £15m five-year plan to develop the area around the Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest site…

No. The Temple Mount is the Holiest site in Judaism. On it sits the al-Aqsa Mosque and Dome of the Rock. Temple Mount is where the Holy of Holies was, the place where the Ark of the Covenant was housed during the first Temple. That as the house of worship built by Solomon the son of David in 957 BCE. The Dome was completed in 692 CE.

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Posted: 25th, November 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment


Ribble Valley Tories’ Racist Joke Exposed And The Guardian Forgets Kirk, Tonge And Dalyell

AN election looms, so perfect time, then, for Simon Farnsworth, a Tory councillor for Ribble Valley councillor, to send a racist joke to Ken Hind, his fellow councillor and a former Tory parliamentary candidate in Selby and Lancashire West at the 1997 and 1992 elections. The joke makes its way to the Guardian, via people with a vested interest in doing down the Tories.

Before we go on, get a load of these fine LibDem operatives like Madeleine Kirk and Jenny Tonge, and the lovely Labour MP Tam Dalyell who spoke of the Government being in thrall of a “cabal of Jewish advisers“. None is a racist. All are just stating an opinion. You have a right to be offended. Are you?

Racism, bigotry and pointing the finger at “them” is everywhere. It’s is not the preserve of any one party, although the BNP do make it a crux of their being.

Farnsworth sent the funny to an email list, whish also included the name of Ribble Valley Tory MP Nigel Evans, the mayor of South Ribble, and fellow Conservative councillors.

Want to hear the joke?

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Posted: 3rd, May 2010 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)


MEN Media Sacks Journalists, And Alan Rusbridger’s Pension

THE Press Gazette reports on job losses MEN Media – “publisher of the Manchester Evening News and related weeklies, has told staff that 150 jobs are to go and all weekly editorial offices will be closed.”

Staff on the newspapers, part of the Guardian Media Group, were told of the job cuts in a series of briefings with management this morning.

The number of jobs going in editorial is 78. According to the National Union of Journalists, half of the journalism job cuts will come from the MEN itself.

As a result, the MEN editorial team will shrink from 90 to about 50.

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Posted: 10th, March 2009 | In: Money | Comment


Guardian Readers Blame The Guardain

BOH writes: “This was pointed out to me by Dave  in the commetns section of the Gruaniad.”

A Guardian reader writes:

Dear Ms Featherstone,

I think the people who should truly say sorry for such events are the opinion leaders of the Guardian. Please allow me to explain.

Last week I visited (as a doctor) a family in a council estate. The mother was concerned about her 12 year old son. She was very pleased that her older son was now on incapacity and would therefore do well for himself in terms of money.

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Posted: 18th, November 2008 | In: Reviews | Comments (3)


The Guardian and Mail Compete To Be The Most Bigoted

WRITES Peter Wilby in the Guardian:

The Daily Mail is in many (no, most) respects a dreadful paper, relentlessly stoking the worst human emotions: prejudice, bigotry and hate.

No so much stoking the worst as reinforcing fears and hatreds reinforcing them among its right-minded readership.

But what of the Guardian? The paper’s former writer Julie Burchill signed off her final column by citing the Guardian’s’s Jew hating, the “dirty little secret masquerading as a moral stance”:

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Posted: 27th, October 2008 | In: Reviews | Comments (5)


Guardian Follows Daily Express And Tips IceSave

ICESAVE is dead. Britain is at war with Iceland. And the Guardain is scoring points on the Express, its pet target:

GUARDIAN – Hugh Muir:

“If you are lucky enough to have some spare money, now could be the time to cash in,” said the ever-informative Daily Express, addressing the credit crunch yesterday. “Icelandic bank Icesave pays 7.06% on £1,000 or more on its one-year bond.” Yeah, right – October 8, 2008

GUARDIAN:

Ten of the best … savings accounts
An unexpected bonus from the financial crisis is banks raising their savings rates to attract customer cash. Harvey Jones picks a selection of the best buys on offer

Hear ye, hear ye… Any idea what’s No.1?

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Posted: 11th, October 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Money, Tabloids | Comment (1)


Understanding UK Media Bias Against Palin And McCain

BIAS at the BBC? Of course. Bias in the Guardian. Natually. Only nutters vote for Palin and McCain:

That is the safe sex message of all time. Use a condom or become a Republican!”

In the light of this pig-ignorant comment coming out of Russell Brand, a so-called comedian at the recent MTV awards, some of you might be wondering if his opinion is shared by others in the UK.

Considering the incredibly biased coverage of the whole election by outlets such as the BBC and the Guardian, it is no wonder I encounter such ignorance about Gov. Palin. What is most appalling is the fact that many media outlets in the UK seem to be perfectly happy to repeat all the Daily Kos-spewed lies about her as if they were fact.

Comment pages online are filled with people repeating the various lies word for word. One finds oneself posting the link to the Palin debunk site.

It is not like they have to look very hard at her to work up a lather in their urban, patronizing minds. All the things that make Sarah Palin attractive to Middle America are the things that disgust the media establishment in the UK. In fact, they could not quite believe the outcry after Obama’s claim that Midwesterners cling to their “guns and God” when times are hard.

The left-wing media stymies the debate…

BBC Bias Against Sarah Palin

The BBC Underdoes Sarah Palin

Posted: 6th, October 2008 | In: Reviews | Comments (3)


Knut The Polar Bear On Suicide Watch

POLAR Bear Watch: Anorak’s look at polar bears in the news…

KNUT, the German polar bear the Guardian calls an “activist” for global warming, is alive. But his former keeper is not. Thomas Doerflein has died.

THE INDEPENDENT reports: “Love story: Knut mourns his keeper”. Or as the experts put it:

Berlin Zoo yesterday categorically ruled out suggestions that Knut would experience feelings of loss as a result of his keeper’s passing. “It won’t be a problem for him,” said Klaus Lüdcke, a Berlin zoologist, “Knut has been looked after by a whole team – and for him the most important person is the one who brings the food.”

And Doerflein: “He said that he could wish the bear no better first-birthday present than permanent separation.”

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Posted: 24th, September 2008 | In: Broadsheets | Comments (2)


Climate Sceptics Have Their Heads Stuck In The Cool Sand

AS he says: “There’s a news article just published at the Guardian reporting the announcement from the Met Office that ‘climate sceptics have their heads stuck in the sand’.”

Climate sceptics such as Nigel Lawson who argue that global warming has stopped have their “heads in the sand”, according to the UK’s Met Office. A recent dip in global temperatures is down to natural changes in weather systems, a new analysis shows, and does not alter the long-term warming trend. The office says average temperatures have continued their rising trend over the last decade, and that humans are to blame.In a statement published on its website, it says: “Anyone who thinks global warming has stopped has their head in the sand. “The evidence is clear, the long-term trend in global temperatures is rising, and humans are largely responsible for this rise. Global warming does not mean that each year will be warmer than the last.”

So what does it mean, then? That it’s not getting warmer?

Posted: 23rd, September 2008 | In: Reviews | Comment