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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: China: Government Starts Phasing Out American Processors,
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Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2024 21:32:10 +1100
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On 4/04/2024 10:22 pm, Sn!pe wrote:
> Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote: 
>> On 4/04/2024 6:40 am, Sn!pe wrote:
>>> John Larkin <jl@997PotHill.com> wrote:

>>>>The Guardian is objective and always true. I'm impressed.
>>>
>>> Of course that's correct, provided you are content with left-wing truth.
>>>
>>
>> The Guardian doesn't report "left wing truth". It aims for factual
>> accuracy. My experience was that the UK right-wing press ignored
>> inconvenient facts, and The Guardian didn't.
> 
> I disagree; obviously YMMV. 

You don't say why. There's a certain knee-jerk reaction to "Guardian 
readers" amongst demented right-wingers, and your reaction means you get 
assigned to that category. More information might have got you off the hook.

> My take on this is that one should keep
> one's critical faculties very firmly engaged when reading anything
> published by any organisation that expects to make money from it
> or that has a political agenda.

They all do. The Guardian's political agenda is dead simple - they want 
to provide reliable information. They are human, so they fall short,b bt 
they don't do badly.

> I think there is little to be gained by arguing the toss on this so
> please feel free to have the last word.

If you lack the skill to construct even a crude approximation to a 
rational argument, this would be a rational choice.

>> It you want "left wing truth", read the Morning Star (once the Daily
>> Worker).
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning_Star_(British_newspaper)
> 
> Good grief, no, thank you very much.

But it is what what John Larkin imagines the Guardian to be.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney