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This is a link post Peter Obourne explains why the Telegraph, a once respectable paper, is now utter dogshit.
Yeah yeah, I know the Torygraph has always been shit etc, but this public letter of resignation is very interesting. Interesting career move too. I predict a berth at the Guardian with a healthy stipend in just a few months.

Very long read, for media nerds only.
 (I helped save b3ta! Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Tue 17 Feb 2015, 18:13, , Reply)
This is a normal post Last time I went to buy the Telegraph (has ace cricket reporting) it cost about £1.40 -
- I think I read it in WHS and left it there.
 (pissflaps. FSPW, Tue 17 Feb 2015, 18:56, , Reply)
This is a normal post This comment amused me greatly:
"It's gone from the paper of the thinking right to a downmarket copy of the Times, with some of the Daily Mail's worst features thrown in, and even a shocking amount of sub-Guardian sank"

Things must be grim if it's been compared to the Guardian, which has just become a moronic parody of itself. If it's not straining so hard to be liberal it actually hurts beholding that forced blinkered view of the world, it's publishing utter, utter dross that would otherwise rouse the predictable 'right on' liberal heckles and scorn of it's own liberal-for-the-sake-of-being-a-liberal readership if published in the like of the Daily Mail: www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/feb/16/50-things-every-man-needs-to-know

Shame about the Telegraph. I quite liked reading that once in a while just to get other views of the world, unlike the Daily Mail.

Assuming I was in a environment I had enough space to actually open it, such as on a train, or a field.
 (I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Tue 17 Feb 2015, 18:58, , Reply)
This is a normal post Is there a decent newspaper left?
I used to like the Times, but now it's just The Mail with longer words and a good crossword.
 (I helped save b3ta! The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Tue 17 Feb 2015, 19:55, , Reply)
This is a normal post The Mirror is pretty good.
They've got this amazing new section on their website that aggregates clickbait, and they make some hilarious clickbait of their own too, which is usually some kind of astute political commentary.
 (I helped save b3ta! Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Tue 17 Feb 2015, 20:02, , Reply)
This is a normal post You might like to read your copy of The Daily Express....
oooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooohhhhh it's a good paper.
 (eViLegion Chief Commissioner of the Scottish Lunacy Board, Tue 17 Feb 2015, 20:04, , Reply)
This is a normal post Don't shine that torch in my face, mate..
I've just lost a pint of blood.
 (Jimbotfu Bummed in the gob again, Tue 17 Feb 2015, 20:13, , Reply)
This is a normal post I used to reach for a Times or the telegraph if I had already read the Independent
but I just find the Times a bit boring these days, there doesn't seem to be any passion in their current affairs, whether you agree with it or not. Given i've only ever picked it up infrequently, I may simply be missing it.

But the criticism currently of the Telegraph is pretty damning. My chief issue with it though is it really is old school broadsheet. I don't have space around me to read it day in day out, certainly not on a crowded rush hour tube, the pub, or my messy desk at work.
 (I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Tue 17 Feb 2015, 20:11, , Reply)
This is a normal post This reminds me of why I stopped reading The Guardian.

(I helped save b3ta! Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Tue 17 Feb 2015, 20:16, , Reply)
This is a normal post Because you lost your glasses?
Again?
 (smellysamlyingcable Seaman on, Tue 17 Feb 2015, 21:01, , Reply)
This is a normal post It's also old school 'broadsheet'

(I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Tue 17 Feb 2015, 21:23, , Reply)
This is a normal post I think increasingly people
go via Google News and aren't paper-loyal.

The trick is probably to learn which are the good journalists.

Full Fact should do a version of Google News where bad journalists get a ban.
 (I helped save b3ta! monkeon schmonkeon, Tue 17 Feb 2015, 20:20, , Reply)
This is a normal post Apart from when people make shit up
like the former much celebrated darling of the left, Johann Hari, good and bad is entirely subjective. Your proposal sounds like censorship. Who decides who's good or bad? You? The tax dodgers that are Google?
 (I helped save b3ta! Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Tue 17 Feb 2015, 20:29, , Reply)
This is a normal post Accurate and Inaccurate is not subjective.
Google order their news via an algorithym. I'd just like to see one that takes into account how much proven bullshit the author has written before. I imagine Full Fact have quite a lot of data for that.

Don't see why that would be any more censorship than any other internet directory.
 (I helped save b3ta! monkeon schmonkeon, Tue 17 Feb 2015, 20:38, , Reply)
This is a normal post That was the point I tried to make in my subject line.
Bullshit is bad journalism. But journalism that contains an opinion you don't like or agree with doesn't make it bad. Nor is popular journalism good by virtue of its popularity. There is some great journalism in the New Yorker for example, but it tends to be very long, worthy and so detailed as to verge on being dull, certainly for those with a short attention span. But no aggregate algorithm essentially designed to get clicks is ever going to feature that. And that's all the Internet really wants: clicks
 (I helped save b3ta! Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Tue 17 Feb 2015, 20:53, , Reply)
This is a normal post and cats
and cock
 (I helped save b3ta! A Rory Borealis here under duress, Tue 17 Feb 2015, 22:18, , Reply)
This is a normal post frigging bleeding heart liberals
i say stop there benefits and throw them in the jail. your only as good 1 as you think. kill all the muslims there all the same 112111
 (I helped save b3ta! colmcq2, Wed 18 Feb 2015, 9:28, , Reply)
This is a normal post That's sad
Not bought it for sometime but it used to my daily delivery of news. Yes I knew where the bias was but is was slight which was made up by the delivery and insight of the news which always made it a great read.
 (I helped save b3ta! spazzcaptain Misses Valin @, Tue 17 Feb 2015, 22:21, , Reply)