The Guardian (TG) is the leading left-of-centre mainstream newspaper in England (so it says here). Apart from the occasional article by George Monbiot, I'd prefer to view it as a pile of elitist baloney for the chattering classes.
One would expect that a bastion of journalism would provide insightful, investigative, shrewd and laterally-thought analysis about the world in which we live. With regard to football and sport in general, this is most certainly not the case.
A few examples... TG provides a mouthpiece for Harry Redknapp and David James (with their respective ghost writers). Regular readers of this blog will understand our concern at such "journalism" in a broadsheet. TG employs Racing Post writer Keith Pullein to put out tipping disinformation (the Racing Post is an industry-owned manipulative paper). What sort of service is this? And the horseracing correspondents are Chris Cook and Greg Wood who are effectively controlled by the racing industry etc etc etc. This simply isn't journalism.
Additionally, this week in a misguided attempt to attract readers to the Guardian sportblog, two quite offensive articles were posted (one justifying sectarianism by Nicky Campbell and one sensationalist piece of nonsense about scousers by the usually perceptive Paul Doyle). Neither even warrant a link.
Dumbed down and disinformational writing is not what we need - we get enough of that elsewhere in the paper from the likes of David Aaronovitch.
Chomsky, as usual, is correct in his assertion that spectacular society controls all mainstream media in Britain and the US.
