Oh, and let's discuss that bit of trivia, that went trending on Twitter for a short while, only in the UK, naturally. The #BoycottTheGuardian garbage. Because maybe the UK could benefit from dosing up the tapwater with lithium and haloperidol too.
For those who don't know it: the @guardian is a broadsheet, i.e. a respectable newspaper, not a scandal-mongering tabloid, based in the UK, though its web-presence is heavy in the USA and Australia. It is the smallest of national broadsheets in the UK, and the best one.
The @Guardian, national broadsheet w/ the smallest subscription in the UK, is also the most "left"-wing & liberal of the UK national broadsheets. Known 1821 till 1959 as the Manchester Guardian, it has done a huge deal of v important investigative #journalism over the centuries.
Small trivia note: George Orwell wrote in his book, "Homage to Catalonia" about the UK press coverage of the Spanish Civil War, that, "Of our larger papers, the Manchester Guardian is the only one that leaves me with an increased respect for its honesty".
Yesterday comes along, "#BoycottTheGuardian". Not from Conservatives (the Tories), although they are laughing fit to bust a gut about it all. No; instead, from what purports to be the British left.
LOLwut wtf? Let's look into it more deeply. New thread!
LOLwut wtf? Let's look into it more deeply. New thread!
@threadreaderapp unroll, thanks
