The Guardian has finally apologised for putting up a review of the documentary One Day in October which included such choice commentary as:
“If you want to understand why Hamas murdered civilians, though, One Day in October won’t help. Indeed, it does a good job of demonising Gazans, first as testosterone-crazed Hamas killers, later as shameless civilian looters, asset-stripping the kibbutz while bodies lay in the street and the terrified living hid… Hamas terrorists are a generalised menace on CCTV, their motives beyond One Day in October’s remit.”
After backlash last week the paper took the review down. Now it says sorry:
A collective failure of process indeed…
Sky News reports that Guardian Media Group is in talks to sell The Observer to ‘slow news’ outlet Tortoise Media. GMG chief executive Anna Bateson says this is “an exciting strategic opportunity.” An opportunity to offload…
Liberal media supremo James Harding has championed his “centrist dad media” brand with the help of BBC, the left-wing broadsheets, and millions in initial funding over the course of its 2019 launch. Five years later Tortoise Media has a £4.6 million annual operating loss to show for it, which is up £1.5 million from the year before. On the bright side, not as bad as GMG’s £21 million loss…
According to analytics data from SimilarWeb, Tortoise is struggling to get consumers to read its drawling long-form content, either. Over the last 90 days this is how they have done in terms of reader visits, which Guido has handily compared with another not-for-profit online outlet also founded to do more highbrow journalism:
From July to August alone Tortoise’s traffic dropped by a whopping 41%, and it is now attracting fewer than 500,000 monthly unique visitors. Audiences are hardly crying out for boring, long-winded centrist content…
The Observer is beaten to the bottom of print circulation only by The Guardian. Birds of a feather flock together…
The liberal elite have swiftly sought to shut down any discourse on ‘two-tier’ policing in the wake of the recent riots. Elon Musk has been doing a good job riling up the left with his #TwoTierKeir campaign, which The Guardian dismissed as a “myth.” The paper has gone to great lengths to say that any argument of police behaving inconsistently towards different individuals is a “far-right” fabrication. Though a quick look through the archives show they’ve not always held that view…
The Guardian has a noble history of pointing out two-tier policing. Just last year, they blasted the “institutional misogyny, racism, and homophobia [that] persists within the Met, Britain’s biggest police force.” In another article, they claimed that UK police officers were inherently biased, stating, “Police are far more likely to use a Taser electrical weapon against black people due to structural and institutional racism.” Two-tier reporting?
