Re:Why Europe needs to get over its Silicon Valley envy
by laurencerowe on Monday February 17, 2014 @08:06PM
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I think this simply reflects the positioning of Guardian America, which is aiming squarely at the market gap to the left of the NY Times. There's a noticeable difference in tone between the US and UK comment pages, the US page seeming much more bombastic.
In Britain, The Guardian fills a political niche quite similar to that of the NY Times, perhaps with a little less stuffiness as it does not consider itself the paper of record (a position traditionally filled by The [London] Times, a more conservative paper.) It also has a tendency to be less deferential than the NY Times, but that simply reflects the UK press in general, where politicians are widely regarded as being only marginally higher than scum.
In Britain, The Guardian fills a political niche quite similar to that of the NY Times, perhaps with a little less stuffiness as it does not consider itself the paper of record (a position traditionally filled by The [London] Times, a more conservative paper.) It also has a tendency to be less deferential than the NY Times, but that simply reflects the UK press in general, where politicians are widely regarded as being only marginally higher than scum.