Is it just me or is The Observer a load of shite these days?

[moondog]

I refer in particular to irritating posed photos in 'Food' magazine,the tripe that is rehashed endlessly in the 'Woman' one and their fixation into turning their journalists into 'personalities' (ie Mariella Frostybum,Kathryn Phlegm,Polyfilla
Vernon and that irritating Scot-Euan O'Fergusan-Doonray wotsit.)

Yaaaawn.....

Suspected, moondog?

I don't think it was ever in much doubt...

I liked the letter I saw once - forget the actual wording but it was something like "I've been in a road traffic accident, split my head open and snapped my femur, and I have blood gushing everywhere. Does the Barefoot Doctor have any essential oils he could recommend?"

ooh i didn't know that about the Barefoot doctor
this is making me quite happy - here I was missing the UK sunday papers but seems I'm not missing out on much. Hurrah!

Your thread title, MD...

Are you asking if you're a load of shite?!

I would lick a urinal to get my hands on an Observer Food Monthly, don't be so ungracious - you're very lucky to have in the first place

I agree we had been having the independent for a while but dp got the obs yesterday as I wanted that particular food mag.It really has gone downhill

'Top ten places to spend £10,000 on a holiday' or 'Top 50 places in the world to take your mature gap year' ... journalism reduced to nothingness.

There is very little breaking news in newspapers anymore. BBC24 & Sky have seen to that, which is probably why newspapers have resorted to dressing up sensational stuff as 'news' & resorted to celebrity columnists (a trend from NY). I've given up on all papers except The International Herald Tribune which is excellent for news (but it's hardly a relaxed Sunday read!).

lmao Unquieutdad.
That's it,that's it exactly!
(And your link is bloody hilarious.Am snorting redbush tea all over the shop.)
Ah yes,dear Kathryn mentioned her pregnancies again yesterday.My,there's a surprise.

Suze,I'll send you yesterday's copy if you like.
Even that has slid.
Pages on where people like Baby Spice and Macfly eat lunch.
Who gives a fuck????

If anyone follows my link they should read the next article as well. The one about curing cancer with raw vegetables and coffee enemas. That's quite funny too. In a sort of way.

do feel spiritually orphaned by loss of the Obs

it's like parents who used to be dull but reliable, informed on current affairs, always formally dressed and good for a roast dinner, suddenly ditching each other and respectively taking up Scientology and yoga, greeting you in tie-dyed kaftan and directional catwalk pieces, and chattering on about the centredness of being over 70

Financial Times anybody? Mum says it's good and lasts the weekend, but I kind of hate the diamond adverts and travel advice 'to those hesitating between Mustique and Dubai'

still at least they got rid of that Emma person who used to write equally appalling stuff about natural health

pass me a buboe, Byron

Was that the one in the Sat Grauniad "Weekend", choosyfloosy? There used to be a letter from a proper health professional taking her to task just about every week.

oh was it? i thought she was in the Obs? That was the one, anyway. Maybe she moved?

Maybe she did both. They're the same paper really! All a load of cobblers, anyway, wherever it was.

cant stand to read the sunday papers at all now..
full of 'blogs' really and no news or readers writing sending in pics and stories..
an insult to comics..

quite liberating not to have to trawl through the sludge and boring mylife columns anymore..try it!

i still think the guardian is very good - gets better and more imaginative all the time, a really good feel to it. but agree that sadly the observer is getting worse and totally agree with the vapidness of the woman magazine. have always had a problem with mariella ever since she took to motherhood so rapturously and forgot all the single women and childless women she had championed so strongly for the past twenty years. or am i just jealous she gets to judge the booker prize?

used to get the indie on sunday cos it was the smallest, but even that is too big now..

Agree re the Observer getting thinner and thinner re content. Magazine is now virtually content-free - my particular low point is that Euan whoever on the backpage who needs a coffee enema or three.

There is FA re news in the Sunday papers - if anything interesting has happened you'd look it up on a news website anyway. I don't think there is therefore enough "content" to make a good Saturday and Sunday paper. In general I think the Sat papers are loads better than the Sunday ones and I prefer to make the Saturday Guardian last 2 days (not difficult when you have 854 games of "Tumbling Monkeys" to play every day.

I do find I don't remember a single thing I have read in it. In fact, the other week I was reading the Obs, dh walked in and asked me what was in the paper, and I couldn't answer him even though I was actually looking at it at the time.

Prob more about me - I use it as a kind of drug, really. Funnily enough we haven't really bought it since then.

Sat behind Kathryn Flett on a plane once. PMSL when the stewardess came round, asking which paper everyone wanted. "Ooooh, The Observer!" she trilled, visibly preening and glancing from side to side to see if anyone recognised her. Didn't let on . Oh - and her ds screamed thoughout just about all of the 4 hr flight.

Yes, the Obsever is a load of old shite these days, isn't it? Bugger all to actually read. Changed over to the Sunday Times as the best of a bad bunch.

i disagree i think the sunday times is the absolute worst. just so many supplements all making you feel completely crap in a different subtle way! or not so subtle way.
making the sat guardian last two days sounds a good idea.

I once read the Sunday Telegraph - must be 13 years ago now.

I cried for about an hour afterwards that the world was full of so much hate and disapproval. Must have been PMT, and I can't see myself trying it again, but is it any better now?

I LOVE Euan Fergusson - leave him alone! Agree though re Woman magazine and just because Food yesterday was a bit dull, won't be throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Really like Andrew Rawnsley and Nick Cohen.

Oh good.It's not just me then.Right,back to Unquiet Dad's coffee enema link.

Am going to give the Indie a whirl.
(I still love the Sat. Telegraph.)

I have just read my Mams Observer from yesterday I took me 1/2 an hour def not as good as it used to be !