Philmo Phlegm's Cut-out and Keep Guide to British Newspapers

[philmophlegm]

Something that foreigners often find difficult when reading British stories is not knowing the editorial stances of British newspapers. British newspapers seem to be more opinionated than many foreign newspapers, and if you don't know where that paper is coming from, you'll find it hard to deal with any bias. So in the spirit of international

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[andrewducker]

Thank you, that made me laugh.

If it was public, I'd link to it.

[philmophlegm]

Oh, go on then...

Interesting Links for 14-04-2012

[livejournal]

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[cairmen]

What about the FT?

[cartesiandaemon]

Everything's shit and pink? :)

[philmophlegm]

Cripples, I forgot the FT!

OK, edit imminent...

[cairmen]

Given the certainty or lack therof, plus the occasional rather shrill tone in the FT's predictions over the last year, I'd suggest

"You should invest over THERE! No, THERE! No - oh, god, we don't know, everything's shit."

[cartesiandaemon]

LOL. That was very helpful :)

[skington]

All looks plausible, apart from the Guardian - it's all the fault of the Jews? Really?

[strawberryfrog]

Yeah this. As a middle-class North London Guardian reader I am appalled at the anti-Semitism displayed here ;)

[skington]

A comment elsewhere suggests that most of the "anti-semitism" is in fact the Guardian being anti-Israel and especially anti-Likud, with maybe some genuine anti-semitism creeping in at the margins. Still, I wouldn't call it a defining feature of the paper.

[kerrypolka]

It really is quite hilariously anti-semitic (I say this as your very typical knit-your-own-tofu Graun reader). I still have a subscription and read it daily, but yes, and it's not just "anti-Israel". It's splashed with eg stories about "Pro-Israel Business Tycoons" (wink wink, you know what I mean) and there's been some really shocking stuff about "the chosen ones" in the Editorials section over the past year or so (and possibly longer, that's just as long as I've been reading it daily).