• Aceticon@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    In your post you literally listed all the left of center writers that The Guardian has out of all their opinion writers and journalists, many of whom loudly proclaim themselves as “opinion makers”.

    And that’s not even mentioning their editorial direction after the editor that published the Snowden Leaks was kicked out because of doing it.

    Sure, they have all of two token lefties who get maybe one article every week or two each, in an ocean of neoliberals.

    This for a newspaper many here seem to think is left of center.

    I’ve lived in a number of countries in Europe, including the UK, and The Guardian’s take on European subjects (which are the ones were I can more easily compare it with newspapers from other countries) is always to the right of the take of most newspapers in Continental Europe and hence they generally, as the previous poster pointed out in this article, spin that which is just normal Left in Europe as being Far-Left and Neoliberalism (a pro-Oligarchic ideology that puts Money and those who have it above the State and hence the power of voters) as being Center-Left.

    You can hardly claim that a haystack is in fact a needlestack just because there are two needles in it.

    • Womble@lemmy.worldOP
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      5 months ago

      Yes? As I said they have a wide range of views giving comment. Just because it isnt Pravda doesnt mean its exclusively neoliberal. For example you’ll be hard pressed to find any opinion pieces favourable to privatisation and public sector cuts which are two of the chief pillars of neo-liberal orthodoxy.