The Guardian has morphed into The Daily Mail (so elect Corbyn and ignore them)
from Sodium Haze
The Guardian has become a liberal frosted version of The Daily Mail. You think not? Read on…
Like the BBC – The Guardian is not independent, the old Scott Trust was wound up in 2008 and replaced by a limited company using the same moniker.
The new Scott Trust Ltd appoints a board to run the show – the composition of which might startle those who still regard The Guardian as a left leaning newspaper.
Neil Berkitt – a former banker (Lloyds, St George Bank) who then helped vulture capitalist Richard Branson with Virgin Media.
David Pemsel – Former head of marketing at ITV.
Nick Backhouse – On the board of the bank of Queensland, formerly with Barings Bank.
Ronan Dunne – On the Telefónica Europe plc board, Chairman of Tesco Mobile. He has also worked at Banque Nationale de Paris plc.
Judy Gibbons – Judy is currently a non-executive director of retail property kings Hammerson, previously with O2, Microsoft, Accel Partners (venture capital), Apple and Hewlett Packard.
Jennifer Duvalier – Previously in management consultancy and banking.
Brent Hoberman – Old Etonian with fingers in various venture capital pies including car rental firm EasyCar.
Nigel Morris – chairman of network digital marketing giants Aegis Media.
John Paton – CEO of Digital First Media – a very large media conglomerate which was sued successfully in the U.S. for rigging advertising rates.
Katherine Viner – Startlingly not a banker, in marketing or venture capital. She is I gather (gulp) a journalist.
Darren Singer – formerly with BSkyB, the BBC and Price Waterhouse Coopers.
The only remaining guy is the secretary Philip Tranter – but don’t worry, he is a proper sort from some posh law firms in London.
If any of the members of the Guardian Media Group get bored they can surely get a slot with the BBC Trust which is also stuffed full of bankers and establishment big wigs.
Perhaps this explains its well documented expertise in off shore tax avoidance schemes…
the abrupt dismissal of dissenting voices
Its hysterical reaction to the notion of Scottish Independence…
and the patronising smear campaign now being waged 24/7 against Jeremy Corbyn.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/22/labour-party-members-jeremy-corbyn
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/19/corbyn-communist-labour-leader
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jul/15/daily-telegraph-labour-party-jeremy-corbyn
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/23/labour-back-from-brink-unity
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/24/corbyn-tribe-identity-politics-labour
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jul/24/yvette-cooper-interview-labour-leadership-protest
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/24/soft-left-labour-splinter-party
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/23/labour-leadership-contest-jeremy-corbyn
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/21/labour-tory-voters
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2015/jul/26/labour-fiddles-while-rome-burns
…and this is but a FRACTION of the smug patronising abuse that Corbyn and his supporters have been treated to over the last few days.
The intention is to create a climate of opinion in which any deviation from the terms and conditions The Guardian has placed on political debate remain unchallenged.
The Guardian has spent years defining the ‘centre ground’ so that it takes place within a neoliberal fantasy land, one which facilitates a cosy relationship with wealth and power.
The Guardian is a right wing newspaper now.
The few dissenting voices it allows space for are merely fig leaves for a right wing bias disguised as ‘balanced’ journalism.
The heavy lifting of foisting its fictional credibility onto the public is left to its churnalist live blogs, stories fed to them by PR agencies and political spin doctors , stories copied straight from the wire agencies like AP and worst of all, its tiresome clutch of factory hen hacks like Andrew Rawnsley & Martin Kettle
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[…] which appoints a board comprised of bankers, management consultants, venture capitalists and other classic left-wingers. The paper itself is written nearly exclusively by elite-educated members of the upper middle […]
[…] which appoints a board comprised of bankers, management consultants, venture capitalists and other classic left-wingers. The paper itself is written nearly exclusively by elite-educated members of the upper middle […]
Excellent summary