Why are people who read The Guardian subject to such stigma?

Answer 1

because carrying all that extra rainforest on a weekend is tantamount to child abuse for paper delivery kids!!!

Answer 2

In a couple of years of reading the Guardian, I have only ever noticed about three spelling mistakes. The Guardian always has a column for corrections and clarifications and is quite honest when it makes a mistake, one reason why it is my preferred newspaper.

But I think we are the subject of stigma simply because the vast majority of people read tabloids and the vast majority of tabloids are right wing. The Guardian is completely the opposite - a liberal broadsheet. (I use the term 'broadsheet' to refer to content rather than size, since its size is Berliner.)

The reason that I hate being at home (in a very average small town) is that I feel alienated by the people's hate towards anything different, and hate of liberalism. In Manchester at uni, I'm among more like-minded people... oh and get my Guardian for 25p, base price, lol.

Why would anybody read the Daily Mail? It's like a Nazi manifesto! I begrudgingly spent 45p on it just once because it had to be used for a project... such a waste of 45p, but at least I got a 1st for that project :D

Answer 3

Well you are so lucky I'm responding to this as you are a Guardian reader!
The Guardian was up until the mid 90's the paper of truth.
Somehow over the ensuing years it lost the plot.
As a broadsheet it presents as a boring read.
It appears to be housed by a set of journalists who take themselves far too seriously.
You are only as good as your readership and The Guardian has been seriously loosing readers.
So if you read The Guardian. well done.
Personally I enjoy reading my paper which gives me news and good reporting on current affairs.
If I were you I would read The Financial Times.
Wonderful read.

Answer 4

My Dad is a dyed in the wool Tory and he regards the Guardian as full of leftie rubbish written for the kind of people who are always blathering about some cause or other.
I avoid it like the plague because it always sides with the loony lefties and seldom has a single word of common sense in it.
I read the Telegraph so i am stereotyped as a "hang 'em,flog 'em" merchant !.
The last time i looked at a copy of the G it was full of a whole bunch of nothing.

Answer 5

I don't think that they particularly are, but they most certainly should be. It is read by 'Leftists', Academics, BBC employees, Labour Politicians, and much of the Public Sector. Do I need to say more?

A refreshing change is the Daily Mail, but it is this Newspaper that is vilified by the readers of the above.

Answer 6

till now I didnt reallise ther was such a stigma or competition to so many readers of varying papers. wow.

Answer 7

I thought I was the only person sick to death of that smug self-satisfied Boy's Own paper. Nothing but blogs - DIY journalism. Now I only read Nancy Banks-Smith and see Steve Bell and Martin Rowson. (Anybody read Rowson's "Stuff"? It's brilliant)

Answer 8

The grauniad has a reputation of being a rather whiny, self-righteous, 'why oh why' sort of liberal paper, of the type George Orwell called 'The pansy left'! In my humble opinion, it's place as number one 'viewspaper' has been overtaken by the Independent.

Is there an echo in here??

Answer 9

I have heard the old one about the Guardian being full of spelling errors but this is the first I've heard of Guardian readers being stigmatised?
How so?

Answer 10

I`ts a labour party voice piece, is tony blair still the editor.