As Bob H points out above, it's a very strange thing that The Guardian -- which used to be a fairly reliable if vanilla mainstream news source -- was overtly commandeered and turned into a propaganda outlet.
I *wondered why the Guardian recently went to a "donations only" financial model. That showed me that suddenly they REALLY wanted to get that paper out there, even if they were obliged to GIVE it away !
Mike Tomasky used to have his own daily blog on the Guardian before the Daily Beast. He's a DNC foot soldier, but it was a little corner where Americans of all political stripe could hang out. The rest of the US section of the paper was pretty ludicrous.
As Bob H points out above, it's a very strange thing that The Guardian -- which used to be a fairly reliable if vanilla mainstream news source -- was overtly commandeered and turned into a propaganda outlet.
@ grisha koshmarov
I *wondered why the Guardian recently went to a "donations only" financial model. That showed me that suddenly they REALLY wanted to get that paper out there, even if they were obliged to GIVE it away !
In fairness, i think it might be in their charter that they can't charge. But they also blew through a lot of their endowment too.
Frank used to write a column in Harper's too. Some quite good ones.
https://harpers.org/author/thomasfrank/
Mike Tomasky used to have his own daily blog on the Guardian before the Daily Beast. He's a DNC foot soldier, but it was a little corner where Americans of all political stripe could hang out. The rest of the US section of the paper was pretty ludicrous.