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Boycott the neoconservative Guardian newspaper

fd | 08.02.2003 01:24

While Pilger is all but alone in the mainstream media in simply thinking for himself, the Guardian and Observer continue their grim, grey, Soviet-style pretence that moral responsibility resides, not in human honesty and compassion of the kind seen in the Mirror, but in 'objective' repetition of government lies. The Observer's performance on Iraq has been so shameful that many readers have decided to boycott the paper - a decision that we heartily endorse.

fd
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Hard to please

08.02.2003 02:32

The Guardian for all is faults is one of the few mainstream papers that has little biased opinion and reports on the unreported. What are you going to do? Turn your back on it or try and fix it? Why don't you write to them about your concerns I'm sure it'll be printed.

Dave

boycott the Sun, Daily Mail and the metro!

08.02.2003 09:09

well, why not boycott the Sun, the Daily Mail, the metro and all the other conservative propaghanda pieces first of all?

Yeah, the Observer and Guardian have become teethless and wishywashy liberal and putting up a little pressure is good- but calling to destroy or for severly damaging the only widespread media which gets ocassionally hit by a glimpse of conscience, is bang out of order.

don't_read-stay_stupid

There is a struggle going on in the Guardian.

08.02.2003 10:29

There is a struggle going on in the Guardian and the Observer. There is the new guard (of which the editor Rusbriger is part) which is Blairite, and committed to making the Guardian a smooth emoliant purveyor of infotainment for the mildly liberal-conscienced middle classes. Rusbriger came from the Guardian Saturday magazine, and is happy to allow his newspaper to become half-tabloid and half-"lifestyle" magazine. But there are a lot of campaigning journalists left of the kind that made the old Manchester Guardian what it was. I myself have started buying only the Independent and the Mirror, but do still read the Grauniad on the web.

EzyPzy

Independent!

08.02.2003 10:57

Independent! But for Fisk it's worse than The Times!

but for fisk

Guardian lies

08.02.2003 11:55

The greatest Guardian lie was seen this week with a front page feature on life in North Korea. I was there only a month ago and do not recognise the claims that there were power cuts, food shortages, constant police searches and constant military music. Believe me, it's quite the opposite, which leaves me wondering what the Guardian/Observer is up to.

Obviously, North Korea is not a place anyone can get to easily, so the media can say what it likes without being made accountable. People like me are dismissed as lunatic Stalinists, whose anecdotal evidence goes against established myths. Perhaps the idea is to get us to despise North Korea in preparation for a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula. It certainly seems that North Korea is next in the firing line after Iraq.

D

Lies of the Guardian

08.02.2003 11:58

The greatest Guardian lie was seen this week with a front page feature on life in North Korea. I was there only a month ago and do not recognise the claims that there were power cuts, food shortages, constant police searches and constant military music. Believe me, it's quite the opposite, which leaves me wondering what the Guardian/Observer is up to.

Obviously, North Korea is not a place anyone can get to easily, so the media can say what it likes without being made accountable. People like me are dismissed as lunatic Stalinists, whose anecdotal evidence goes against established myths. Perhaps the idea is to get us to despise North Korea in preparation for a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula. It certainly seems that North Korea is next in the firing line after Iraq.

D

i got other

08.02.2003 12:27

oh dear. i am sure that there are lies there for everyone to mention. the one that shocked me the most wasn't any of those mentioned by you and yes some longer ago. it was on the event of amis publication of his last book when some extracts were published. i wanted to throw up. they are today no more than a bunch, hearst-like inksuckers. i just think that it is sickening what they did and totally out of their mind. prepare yourself for the next chapter: on how stalinist korea must be liberated. it goes to schedule. maybe contest or hitchens, amis or i dunno, i am not even english (spanish) write some other really didactic peace of information.

josé

Guardian Corporate Interests - Facts

08.02.2003 17:56

A quick look through the GMG 2002 report shows some of the revealing outside interests of its board of directors.

The Charmain of the board Paul Miners is also a director of mm02 communications, the Bank of New York and Marks and Spenser.

Other members of the GMG Board of Dirctors have sat on (or still do) the boards of the following corporations:

Lehman Brothers:
'global investment bank serving the financial needs of corporations, institutions, governments and high net worth investors worldwide'
 http://www.lehman.com/who/history/index.htm

Arch Chemicals:
'Arch Chemicals, Inc. is a dynamic, global specialty chemicals company with leadership positions in key markets '
 http://www.archchemicals.com/default.asp

Rothhild and Sons:
'N M Rothschild & Sons is the merchant banking arm and UK branch of the Rothschild family's financial empire.'
 http://www2.nmrothschild.gg/home/

Simon Group:
Logistics and Shipping: 'operates regular sailings from the UK, Ireland and Continental Europe and can transport virtually any containerised or palletised product.'
 http://www.simongroup.plc.uk/

This is a small selection of the diverse global business interests represented on the GMG Board. All very innocent? I'm not so sure.

Please circulate this widely so people will realise that what they are reading in the Guardian is likely to be tainted by the interests of multinationals.

norsk

All mainstream papers are useless

08.02.2003 18:26

The mainstream press prints little or nothing of relevance. I gave up reading any of them years ago.

No newspaper reader

There is another!

09.02.2003 12:30

Of course there is always the Morning Star, which, ever since it broadened its horizons, is now the only truly left wing daily paper in Britain; with loads of coverage of peace demonstrations, industrial disputes, green issues, civil rights, and most importantly a solidly anti-Blair, anti-war editorial line.

Lets ditch the dead Blairite dog which is the Grauniad and support a truly left paper, which does so much more with so few resources.

Steve Bell's the only good thing in the Grauniad anyway.

There is another!

write letters to the editor

09.02.2003 19:47

I agree with not buying The Guardian/Observer. I have done so since the war on terrosim started after 11/Sept. The coverage of the Afghanistan war and the no reference to anti-war demos and the movement made me angry.
However, because mainstream papers are so interested in mantaining their readership, I think it would be good to tell them about what we think about their editorial line.
On the other hand, I suppose that not everybody in the paper agrees with this line, and they would be very happy to listen to us.

Giselle

letters...

10.02.2003 09:43

i have for a time thought of this while i haven't discussed it with anybody. it looks that this interests some people. i do not think that writting to the editors could possibly ammount to more than a mere anotation which the correspondent may be glad to exam and rejoice in. i think that there are other means more adequate. beyond the boycott that some of you propose, and the presure that propose the others, is the sabotage. you can sabotage the platform by using it to whatever thing you want. target their readership for example. especially in the electronic version. it's quite direct and eficient to target their readership and denounce through the very means of their platform the ammount of lies and propaganda, censorship and conceived crime they're being subject to. thisis extensible to other spaces of information. the success is exponentially higher if it's followed by many and organised, and not only in the web but radiophonic programs. the tv is better not to talk and simply smash it.

josé