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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
Fourteen years later, the Guardian is no longer the champion of the working class. These days, they publish pieces like the one we're discussing, which might as well be called "Kindle Readers: N.Q.O.C.D."
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Huh? The Guardian has always been the champion of moderately well-off liberal-leaning types who
know with a bone-deep certainty that they could solve all the problems of the long-suffering salt-of-the-earth lower classes if only the grotty little proles would take instruction from The Guardian instead of from The Sun, The Daily Mail or whatever other low-brow rag they prefer to purchase with their dole money.
The fact that they bemoan the lower classes reading 'pulp entertainment' rather than 'improving literature' is about as much of a surprise as an article bemoaning that the proles eat too much deep-fried potato/chicken product and too little brown rice and salad.
It has, historically at least, had some pretty decent journalism but, like every single media outlet in the entire universe, you have to adjust for their worldview.