Monday, June 07, 2004
THE BEST BRITISH PAPER
The Telegraph reports:
Hmm. Which is Britain's best newspaper? Well, there is a LOT of junk out there. So, we should probably confine ourselves to the "broadsheets".
Restricting ourselves only to those (meaning omitting the Sun, the Mirror, the Mail, and the Express), I would have to say that, overall, the best is the Telegraph. It is conservative, true -- but not nastily or obnoxiously so. In general, it is well-written and editorially rational.
That is in stark contrast to the irritatingly left-wing, not very well written and editorially silly (and one can be "left-wing" to some extent, and NOT be silly, by the way) Guardian.
And in the print editions of the Telegraph, you get probably some of the best magazines and other odds and ends . . .
. . . Not that that matters, mind you.
By the way, as for two I haven't mentioned. The Times is very good, too. But, on balance, I think the Telegraph is slightly better.
And the "liberal" (meaning moderate left) Independent is not in the same league with the Telegraph, Times and Guardian. However, the Independent is not a tabloid like the Sun or the Mirror, so I don't know where it belongs -- although considering some of the garbage that appears in it (the likes of Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and Robin Cook babble in it), I could offer a suggestion or two. ¶ by Robert, Monday, June 07, 2004
The Telegraph reports:
Nine of Iraq's major militias have agreed to disband, the country's interim prime minister has announced.Oh, and they will go, too.
Iyad Allawi said that the agreement would mean that around 100,000 militiamen would hand in their weapons and take up civilian jobs or work in Iraq's security forces.
However, the deal does not include the militia of Moqtada al-Sadr, the rebel Shia cleric whose Madhi army has been fighting an insurgency against coalition forces for two months. . .
Hmm. Which is Britain's best newspaper? Well, there is a LOT of junk out there. So, we should probably confine ourselves to the "broadsheets".
Restricting ourselves only to those (meaning omitting the Sun, the Mirror, the Mail, and the Express), I would have to say that, overall, the best is the Telegraph. It is conservative, true -- but not nastily or obnoxiously so. In general, it is well-written and editorially rational.
That is in stark contrast to the irritatingly left-wing, not very well written and editorially silly (and one can be "left-wing" to some extent, and NOT be silly, by the way) Guardian.
And in the print editions of the Telegraph, you get probably some of the best magazines and other odds and ends . . .
. . . Not that that matters, mind you.
By the way, as for two I haven't mentioned. The Times is very good, too. But, on balance, I think the Telegraph is slightly better.
And the "liberal" (meaning moderate left) Independent is not in the same league with the Telegraph, Times and Guardian. However, the Independent is not a tabloid like the Sun or the Mirror, so I don't know where it belongs -- although considering some of the garbage that appears in it (the likes of Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and Robin Cook babble in it), I could offer a suggestion or two. ¶ by Robert, Monday, June 07, 2004
