>> >>She even says "I wouldn't believe everything you read in The Guardian, there's very little
>> that they've written that is correct. "
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>> And I am sure she is quite accurate that the Guardian contains a lot of
>> misleading rubbish.
I'm in no doubt about that. And like all the papers they've fewer and fewer specialist correspondents. All too often I read an article about stuff I know about and end up sucking my teeth and mentally composing a correction.
>> The problem is, what's the alternative? Most, probably all, of the newspapers are no better.
>> For each subject one more or less needs to read them all and make a
>> judgement, while being very wary of confirmation bias.
One of my A Level teachers told of a factory worker who read The Times and The Morning Star on the grounds that the truth would be somewhere in between.
Where I can (Parliament, Court Judgements, Academic Papers etc) I ferret for a source document but a lot of stuff escapes such research.
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