The Guardian

"Guardian is the most insufferable newspaper on planet earth." – Elon Musk

The Guardian

Moral Guardian is a better name for them.

Type of site:	Daily newspaper
Language:	English
Created by:	John Edward Taylor
Owner:	Guardian Media Group
Date of launch:	1959
Status:	Active

The Guardian (Manchester Guardian from 1821 to 1959) is one of the largest newspapers in Great Britain. Its online edition was the fifth most widely read in the world in October 2014, with over 42.6 million readers.

The Guardian has the reputation as a platform for liberal and left-wing editorial, which has led to a lot of biased reports which compromises journalistic integrity, and the use of the "Guardian reader" and "Guardianista" as often pejorative epithets for those of the middle-class with left-leaning or politically correct tendencies.

It also earned the nickname “The Grauniad” from satirical newspaper Private Eye, due to its former reputation of typos.

Why It's Rotten Now

Clearly panders towards SocJus and third-wave feminism.
They defended pedophiles and believe they need support.
They once published an article stating political correctness isn't killing comedy, and instead saving it.
They are very supportive of safe spaces and even support racial and gender segregation despite pandering towards multiculturalism.
Since 2015's Labour leadership election, they are occasionally biased against then-elected Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn by letting some members to "criticize" him with fake Social liberal and Centrist Blairite viewpoints.
Gaby Hinsliff, a journalist for them, advocates for illegal discrimination.
Actively supports internet censorship, claiming that free speech can poison the very bloodstream of democracy.
Took part in the Gamers Are Dead coordinated attack, despite being a latecomer.
Constantly bashes Donald Trump when it comes to America's social issues, to the point where it starts to feel like a desperate joke.
They closed the comments section on articles in regards to race, immigration and Islam.
- Jessica Valenti even suggests once that The Guardian should close ALL COMMENT SECTIONS.
Constantly posts exaggerated claims of sexism, racism and misogyny in culture.
They made a false DMCA claim in an attempt to take down one of Sargon of Akkad's video that criticized them.
They posted an article portraying an Antifa supporter Josh Dukes as a hyper-intelligent hero and a victim of the alt-right while completely ignoring the fact that he came to Milo Yiannopoulos' speech armed with a large knife and brass knuckles.
Also frequently posts poorly researched, one-sided articles of Gamergate. Technology editor Jemima Kiss even encouraged other contributors to ignore the consumer revolt, dismissing it simply as "idiotic", and to take source from Leigh Alexander—an infamously corrupt game journalist who spearheaded in the Gamers Are Dead incident. While biased sourcing is common in journalism, Kiss’s actions are nothing short of unprofessional.
They smeared Count Dankula and Sargon Of Akkad. For joining UKIP.
They believe that political correctness expands language.
... and also that exercise-tracking tools is a way for fat-shaming others.
Highly supportive of celebrity culture, which in reality is shallow and selfish. They also insulted those who are highly critical of celebrity gossip, calling them "annoying pompous self-absorbed jackasses". And hypocritically they even wrote a article about how celebrity bodies are unrealistic body images for youth.
E-begging their followers to support them.
They also bash violent entertainment such as John Wick 2, as a part of being anti-gun.^[1]
Made far fetched claims such as Farmville and science-fiction being tools to turn others into part of the alt-right and how it promotes racism.^[2]
They also publish fake news stories.^[3]^[4]^[5] Such as the time they were caught falsely editing Julian Assange's quotes.
Very bigoted as they described all Caucasian people as "annoying".^[6] They even made bold claims such as how there is no way to wipe them out.^[7]
Ironically, despite center-left beliefs, several of their journalists are under investigation for sexual misconduct.^[8]^[9]
Lots of biased and inaccurate content:
- Keith Stuart’s article "Even teenage boys are sick of sexist video games, survey finds" quotes a discredited survey that contains multiple flaws such as having no peer review, very loaded questions, and being taken exclusively over social media with no way to check if the sample truly consisted of the projected demographic of teens (who couldn’t take the survey without adult consent anyway). Even the author of the survey admitted that it had no claim of academic legitimacy and its only goal having been to start a discussion.
- On January 13, 2017, The Guardian published an article stating that WhatsApp had a "backdoor [that] allows snooping on messages”. This was met with an open letter signed by more than 70 professional cryptographers calling for The Guardian to retract the article. Security researchers also criticized the story, with Moxie Marlinspike calling it “false”. On 13 June 2017, editor Paul Chadwick released an article detailing the flawed reporting in the original January article, which was amended to remove references to a backdoor.
- On August 7, 2017, Angela Saini posted an article bashing James Damore—a software engineer fired by Google for suggesting that Google is too left leaning and should focus on adapting the working environment for women instead of forcing them in. Saini sticked to the usual lie that Damore promotes sexism and stereotyping even though he’s trying to provide solutions to reduce the gender gap and repeatedly states in his memo that people should be treated as individuals.
Because of this, they had to cut down several of their staff members.
They wanted to be exempt from tax status by filing themselves as a charity. In fact this was to cover up the massive financial losses they have been taking due to all of the crap they have been doing.
They even made unpredictable remarks such as the possibility of sexism on Mars.
They found LGBT conservatives to be quite disturbing.^[10]
Oddly they claimed that Brexit was a threat to LGBT rights.
Ironically they have two articles going against the gym due to Trump. And another one calling out fat acceptance.^[11]
They even found exercise tools to be "Fat shaming" children.^[12]
If you dislike the "woke" direction Marvel is taking, you are part of the alt right according to them.
A poll revealing the deep discord between Muslims and British was spinned into their narrative as Muslims feeling a sense of belonging even though that is not the case at all.
Weirdly they claimed that MILO podcast hosted by Milo Yiannopoulos was essential listening.
A longer history of muck ups.
- Incensed by Trump spokesman Sean Spicer's statements about "alternative facts", columnist Jonathan Freedland writes a pompous column sticking up for the importance of the press and their duty to report things accurately. Unfortunately he relies on a quote from a Marx Brothers movie, which he ascribes to the wrong Marx brother, uncorrected version archived here and here. He then tries to rewrite his column to disguise his carelessness. However, his "excuse" is that one character was disguised as another, and so he ends up making an even bigger mess of it since it suggests he couldn't tell Groucho from Chico, which was the whole gag in the first place.
- Guardian columnist Lindy West, incensed by Trump's election victory, writes hissy-fit column demanding that media start denouncing people as Nazis - without apparently realizing that she has just had the chance to do exactly that but failed to do so.
- Guardian editorial board member writes column about European Referendum which is happening the next day, but it was obviously prepared way ahead of time and not proofread, because it says "Now, days before the vote, minds have started to focus..."
- Story claims English town is thinking of renaming itself, except the same story tells you that it's not and it's just some random kid's suggestion.
- Guardian publishes a TV review of a top-rated show only to discover that the reviewer hasn't even watched the program, has got the basic premise of the series completely wrong, and has instead written a load of politically-correct false information to disguise his misconduct.
- "No country in the world dares suggest decriminalized all drugs, except the two countries that I then immediately mention, one of which has in fact already decriminalised all drugs."
- Some Aisha Mirza writes a column that's basically "Please, no more smug articles by white people leaving London." is panned to Hell and back in the comments, and The Guardian pussies out and changes the headline to something less racist.
- Guardian art critic writes several hundred words about a video 'still' of a politician crying over the demise of his party (which obviously constitutes great art) and it is published before anyone had bothered checking the source video, which showed that he wasn't crying at all, after which the Guardian simply deletes the whole article.
- A debacle to rival that of NYT villain Jayson Blair erupts when The Guardian discovers that it has printed around 60 stories by one man that were more or less complete fabrications (although they only retract about half of them in a face-saving exercise). This does not become a great journalistic scandal because no-one who matters reads the f***ing Guardian.
- Guardian attempts to swing the vote in Clark County, Ohio, so that W loses the 2004 US Presidential elections, and is immediately owned by irate American readers in the targeted area, provoking such a massive backlash that it looks like the Guardian actually helped Bush win.
They contribute to the ridiculous theories that Thomas the Tank Engine, an innocent children's show, is racist, sexist, authoritarian, capitalist, anti-environmentalist, etc.
- They also seem to demonise the Tintin comics on every chance they get, due to one of its earlier albums, Tintin au Congo (Tintin in the Congo), being racially insensitive, despite being published in colonial Belgium and Hergé himself even hating it!
If you eat brown sauce according to them, you are a smug chauvinist.
They accused Elon Musk and his supporters of being pro-Trump and accused of Gaslighting. When Elon Musk called out The Verge and other corrupt journalists as well.
They defended Kathy Griffin for her tasteless joke of Trump being beheaded.
They published a misinformation story about a woman arrived in Dubai on expired passport, took pics of immigration (illegal inc in UK) and then released & was asked if she drank (as is the standard question almost everywhere).
They have a problem with women being "objectified" yet they said it was ok for female critics to objectify men as well.
They are very open about pushing their political beliefs in entertainment especially video games. And they state that video games should only serve the interests of the left wing part only. And demanding Red Dead Redemption 2 to reflect their own political beliefs and current world events.
They believe that not even Muslims who are against terrorist groups like ISIS should speak out against them.
They don't believe that women should pay for anything especially tampons.
Just like New York Times and Los Angeles Times, they will give negative reviews to movies that do not sit well with their SocJus views. Like, if there is a female character who is a bad person or a female character who gets hurt and/or killed, there is a high possibility that the movie will be bashed and called "gynophobic" or a "gynophobic death-porn", or receive such other bashing and complaints from the newspaper's reviewer.

The ONLY Redeeming Quality

Revealed the truth that The News Of The World, a former British tabloid, hacked phones of people including a murdered schoolgirl, several slain British Army members and several victims of the 7/7 bombings. This led to TNOTW's closure in 2011.

Trivia

In Season 21, Episode 5 of Top Gear, Jeremy Clarkson can be seen reading The Guardian whilst having tea. He then decided that it would be more interesting to tear a piece off the paper and eat it.

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Botbuster

one month ago

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A disgrace to my country. Also, Moral Guardians are basically Right Wing SJWs and The Guardian panders to the left so I don't think calling them The Moral Guardian would make sense.

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[1] John Wick Chapter 2 gun violence Keanu Reeves

[2] The Guardian claims sci-fi video games like Farmville promote racism and right-wing ideology

[3] Fake news Guardian publishes border story riddled with false claims

[4] Fake news Guardian caught deceptively editing quotes from Julian Assange interview

[5] Fake news left-wing press accusations against Brexit campaigners retracted

[6] White people are annoying. More racist rubbish from The Guardian

[7] Guardian: "Unfortunately, there isn't a plan to wipe out white people

[8] Rupert Myers, an anti-GamerGate British GQ journalist fired for sexual misconduct

[9] Anti-GamerGate journalist for Vice, Guardian apologizes for sexual harassment

[10] Guardian: "The rise of LGBT conservatives is troubling."

[11] Guardian: "I stopped going to the gym because of Trump, now I can't open jars."

[12] The Guardian: "Exercise-tracking tools like Fitbit are fat-shaming children."

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