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    Amelia Gentleman Archived Message

    Posted by George Brennan on August 29, 2019, 6:52 pm, in reply to "This is the usual anti-JC crap constantly dripping venomously from WSWS! nm"


    This post, no doubt deliberately, fastidiously follows the good rule proposed by Jonathan Cook

    Jonathan Cook
    Replying to@fivefilters

    "I'm taking the view that, if an article is good, I should use the real link. That creates a small incentive on the Guardian to run more good articles because it increases traffic. When I link to bad articles (most of the Guardian's output), I always use the dump link"



    I myself don't think that most of the Guardian's output is bad, only most of its political output. But even for activists there is more to life than politics, a subject In which most people most of the time are not much interested. Dave Spartacus, a revolutionist of high culture, who writes here under many names, will feel the need to inform us that Guardian articles on sport and cinema and food etc are a bunch of crap, like BBC Four documentaries. But then there is no problem. Simply don't watch them or read them

    The Guardian is not so informative as the New York Times (shrieks of agony from Spartacus) but it too has many good reporters, Amelia Gentleman is one of them. Her months of investigation into Windrush unearthed a Scandal which the PLP demagogue David Lammy was able to pick up and run with. As Jonathan Steele has pointed out only a big news organisation could fund that kind of investigation. The Canary, which tries to pay its staff decently, simply could not afford it





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