In my experience
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the Guardian is stuck inside its own echo chamber just as much as other media platforms are. It also has the biggest contingent of posh and overprivileged journos who rarely journey out of the M25; there are more WC background journos on the Times and Telegraph and definitely a lot more on the mid-markets and tabloids.
I have never really understood why the Guardian has managed to maintain its reputation for probity and integrity as it has not had that for a long time and despite being a national newspaper it is not actually hugely interested in what the country outside southern england actually thinks. It's incredibly snobby in its outlook.
That's just my opinion based on my experience and there may well be fraus where who've had other experiences and will tell me different which is cool, I'm always looking to have my perspectives widened!
The moment I really went off the Guardian was actually over the wikileaks scandal of 2010. Listen fraus I'm not standing up for Julian Assange as a person BUT as far as I could see the Guardian had flattered and emotionally manipulated him into giving them the classified documents, they got loads of scoops out of them, won loads of awards, built assange up to be like this kind of superspy hero and then quickly dumped him and spent a few months writing personal hit pieces about how smelly and mentally ill he was (he is apparently on the autism spectrum btw, which they probably suspected when they were writing this stuff). I appreciate they might've done that because of the Swedish allegations and because they were scared of blowback from the US Government but actually they knew about both these things before they did the scoop, so they blew him up, knowing he was allegedly a sex offender, published his leaks and then not only dropped him like a hot potato but did everything they could to paint him as a clown and a fool whilst they were the 'respectable' journalists.
It said a lot to me about how the establishment media uses 'new journalism' when it suits them but will then tarnish the purveyors of that new journalism to prop themselves up, also shoddy treatment of a source, did not sit right with me.
Oh yeah and back in the 90s they bought into the Met Police's systematic lies about Stephen Lawrence and his family and printed them wholesale, it was only the Daily Mail who insisted on fingering the killers and telling the truth despite their journalists getting death threats from the killers' families, that is all conveniently forgotten now.
I've not got a grudge against the Guardian honest! but I DO think they should stop publishing Jack!