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Comment by jsmthrowaway | Hacker News Reader

No mention of The Guardian? I have a pretty high opinion of their newsroom, and donate regularly. They’ve been doing solid investigative work lately, even on American topics.

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Big problem with the Guardian is not making clear enough visual differentiation between their blogs — where anyone can write any old shit — and their actual reporting and editorial

Opinion pieces have a bright orange banner and use that same colour elsewhere in the articles, it's also used on the links to the opinion pieces. What else could they be doing to point out the difference? How could they make it more clear than heavy use of colour coding?

It was such a stupid decision for them to combine their opinion and editorial section with Comment Is Free. The latter being pretty trashy most of the time.

How do you know the difference? Is it in the banner or the url?

I think the only real way nowadays is whether /commentisfree/ appears in the URL and it isn't clearly marked as an Editorial.

I have a hypothesis that if the breadcrumb says "home › opinion" with no third level then you're in CIF, but I have no real evidence that that is actually reliable.

The Intercept [1] is arguably British. It has a focus on UK/US/BR, with a Brazilian version as well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Intercept

I did and still do have a high opinion of the guardian, but that perception has been shifted somewhat when one of the senior tech editors tried to argue with me that foss is dead and no one cares about it anymore...

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