Blog of the Week: The Guardian

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One of my all time favorite news sources as of late, has to be the Guardian, in particular their Comment is Free section. I’ve had a long discussion with a blogger friend of mine Grace Bunting over at Wondering Grace about my love for the Comment is Free section of the Guardian. In particular, one article that forever sealed my love for the Guardian in which a journalist referred to the prime minister as a Dim-witted ballon on a stick.

To be clear, I’m always wary of any ‘comments’ section on any blog on the internet, because it always seems to be a congregation of the clinically insane, screaming nonsense at each other. So I try to avoid anyone’s comments as a matter of routine, because for reasons I will never fully understand people get very vicious on the internet. (I’ll blog more about that later).

I can’t really tell you why this amused me as much as it did, suffice it to say, I don’t believe I’ve ever laughed so uncontrollably at an article as I did there. But it isn’t just that, I’ve always rather enjoyed British news. In particular, their need for having a US edition. I mean granted CNN has a World Edition, but that’s all over, The Guardian (and actually a few others) have, local news, World News and then their own specific US News. I find this both fascinating and a little exhausting as well. We don’t have like Canada news, or UK news, it all goes into the ‘World’ heading. But I digress.

Ultimately, if I’m being honest I have a love for many political and news blogs, depressing though the news often is, I’m still fascinated by what’s going on with the world.