To dislike The Guardian newspaper?

[wintersnow]

Mainly because I find it has a fairly smug derisive undertone and is quite boring

[defineme]

Which paper do you like?
Do you dislike weekday Guardian or Saturday or both?

I think you may well BVU because I think the breadth of reportage stands up to any other broadsheet.

If you just said the saturday family section I'd support you, but i think it's a bit smug of you to dismiss the whole paper as smug.

[wintersnow]

No, I do actually read the news in the weekday Guardian, it's more the family section & Saturday Guardian I have issues with!

[QueenOfFlamingEverything]

Don't buy it then [shrug]

I rather like it.

Not the lifestyle bits or the ridiculous fashion pages or indeed the Family section [barf], but the actual news reporting is top banana IMO.

[GandalfyCarawak]

I think it's really very good.

[wintersnow]

Ah yesm, the clothes on the fashion pages are just ridiculously expensive

[QueenOfFlamingEverything]

Oh well YANBU about that.

They should introduce a saturday Guardian that only has the news and costs a % of the price of the one full of fashion and interviews with slebs.

[narkypuffin]

Not at all unreasonable. Personal choice. Why do you read it though?

I think all weekend supplements have smug parent/family type articles in though. It's the law.

[Takeresponsibility]

Used to get it - beacause it was the only crossword I could do. Couldn't stand the trendy leftie articles, the ink that covered your fingers and the spelling....

[LookToWindward]

It's basically the other side of the Daily Mail but in a nicer suit...

[narkypuffin]

I read it online.

Does anyone know when the fashion editor's lips exploded BTW. I don't usually watch her 'how to wear' clips but saw one yesterday and I was worried she might need an epi pen.

[sjm123]

I don't think it's unreasonable to like or dislike a newspaper (unless it's the DM), it's down to personal taste.

I personally love The Guardian, especially the Guide on a Saturday. Though it was better with Charlie Brooker's screen burn bit :)

[inchhighprivateeye]

I like much about the paper as a whole, but why is the Family section so bad? So many 'articles' are just extracts from boring books you would never want to read. Smug men scratching their beards about why they are a crap dad. yawn yawn yawn.

[poppyknot]

I dislike the Daily Mail and find it [all sortts of adjectives] but I don't think IABU at all.

[OTheHugeManatee]

I don't like the Guardian.

But then I don't buy it, so

[giyadas]

I like the guardian during the week but have stopped buying it at the weekend. It's just clothes I'm never going to wear, wines I'll never drink, food I'll never eat etc. Inconsequential smug crap.
Queenofflamingeverything is spot on, they need a lite version which just does news.

[bibbitybobbityhat]

I am a Guardian reader, but the Family Section usually makes me want to smash things. I never look at the fashion pages properly, although it has filtered into my consciousness that they do show older and old people (albeit very thin ones) in their shoots which is kind of pleasing.

[JamieLeeCurtis]

I only buy it at the weekend, and sometimes it makes me want to smash things

[Scrumpet]

I can't cope without my daily crossword, and it's not the same doing it online. Years of learning the styles of the setters are not going to go to waste now!

I can't find much to read in the saturday version though (apart from Lucy Mangan ) and I don't like the new big review section in the Observer, but I still buy them because if I don't get my crossword I melt into a puddle on the floor.

[OldMumsy]

YANBU it's pretentious pants. Pretty much all the papers are. I can just about bear the Telegraph sometimes.

[JamieLeeCurtis]

I do like most of it, but I do think the fashion is a wasted opportunity. They just stick the elderly woman in something ridiculous a much younger model-type would wear, because she's thin, but not let her smile (I'm only 41 and I know an ageing face looks better with a smile on it)

[Mssoul]

I've been surprised by the guardian lately but i now think it is really rather good. I think it was guardian readers I disliked all along

Agree that the news is great but the family/fashion is bleurgh. Oh, and the Observer is good too.

[mayorquimby]

Nah I hate it as well.

[Honeybee79]

You don't have to read it!

The lifestyle stuff sometimes grates on me, particularly in the weekend magazine, but the weekday Guardian is always excellent imo.

[cookingfat]

Love it, especially on a Saturday. Wish they'd cut the Family section though, v barf-inducing indeed.