[RedSparrows]

The willingness to leap into advertiser buzzword market reaearch-as-history slop is tiresome. Newspapers don't have to do this, and yet...

[Andy McDandy]

Fills space. Gets people talking. Generates hits. Job done.

[davidjay]

Our school houses were A, B. C and D.

[Bones McCoy]

Was Adrian Chiles not available to muse about rebranding confectionary?

[Philip Marlow]

Fills space. Gets people talking. Generates hits. Job done.

I have in fact fallen headlong into the Graun’s cunning hate clicks generator. Even if the writer himself isn’t, someone at Guardian Towers must be aware that it’s an awful piece, which is going to generate an awful lot of chatter about what an awful piece it is.

The first time I became aware of them doing this was when they gave the hapless offspring of one of their freelance travel writers space to write about his tremendously exciting gap year in India and parts beyond. It was supposed to be a series, but in those days of looser moderation it got so comprehensively slaughtered below the line that they nixed it after the first article. That then generated at least two other articles by established columnists about the beastliness of the plebs towards this promising young man.

[Andy McDandy]

Ah yes, shades of Radio 4's "Excess Baggage", in which Sandi Toksvig would listen in fascination to some home counties person who had just "discovered" the lost city of Sen-Ta-Parx deep in the bowels of Sherwood forest, before musing on whether or not Nottingham had drinkable water yet.

[Philip Marlow]

An awful lot of work seems to be going into convincing that percentage of the Great British public which can still afford to go to the pub that shrinkflation should be welcomed with open arms.

https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... a-schooner

I’m assuming the ‘leave our pints alone’ rejoinders are in the works.

[Andy McDandy]

For some unknown reason, journalists love writing about alcohol consumption and betting.

[Bones McCoy]

For some unknown reason, journalists love writing about alcohol consumption and betting.

Au-o bigrafical - innit!

[davidjay]

For some unknown reason, journalists love writing about alcohol consumption and betting.

Au-o bigrafical - innit!

Shows they haven't forgotten their roots - couple of pints and an acca on the football.