In article <2tpUe.5332$zw1.389@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Stephen Glynn
<stephen.glynn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes
>banana wrote:
>> In article <3oeejfF5jsnvU1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, oO <oO@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes
>>>The Guardian has confirmed today that it will be moving further to the
>>>right...it claims it is currently left-wing and moving to the
centre...it is
>>>currently pro-new-labour (hardly left-wing) and therefore will be
moving
>>>even further to the right, not the 'centre'. It is also getting new
>>>commentators such Simon Jenkins from 'the Times'. This is not good. And
look
>>>at how the editor wrongly refers to 'the left' as being 'a niche'. Also
I
>>>think I'm correct in saying the Guardian is run not-for-profit (rare) -
how
>>>long will that last?
>>>
>>>Abstract from:
>>>http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/article/080905/great_expectations
>>>"Editor Alan Rusbridger revealed that the £80m relaunch of The Guardian
as
>>>the UK's first full-colour national newspaper will leave behind its
former
>>>left-wing political 'niche'."
>>
>>
>> What they are planning for their science coverage is also disgusting -
>> it will probably come direct from some central body of the
>> megacor****ations, whether done through a Whitehall committee or
>> wherever. They will be running a whole page on science every day,
>> pu****ng techno-objectivist-fascism.
>>
>> It will be interesting (and revolting) to see what big themes they run
>> with after the relaunch on Monday. As a cultural thing, the relaunch is
>> probably quite an im****tant move for those who control Britain. Kind of
>> 'bye-bye to whatever passed for left-wingism within New Labourism'...it
>> does make you want to shudder. How long before they privatise the roads
>> and the schools get run by Capita? Some people find it easy to ignore,
>> but in the past week the US authorities have rounded up practically the
>> entire 'underclass' of a large city and have taken them off to refugee
>> camps.
>>
>> The term 'war' comes to mind...
>Could the 'large city' to which you allude be New Orleans, by any chance?
Yes.
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banana "The thing I hate about you, Rowntree, is the way you
give Coca-Cola to your s***, and your best teddy-bear to
Oxfam, and expect us to lick your frigid fingers for the
rest of your frigid life." (Mick Travis, 'If...', 1968)
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