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The downfall of The Guardian

2024-11-17 10:18:59 | Reading - local/society
C1 reading.It took very long to understand the article. C1 is still too far.

The downfall of The Guardian
https://www.standard.co.uk/business/guardian-observer-downfall-elon-musk-twitter-x-donald-trump-election-b1194007.html

resounding - pronunciation
fault line
People team
stake
fire on all cylinders
discourse
reproductive rights
redouble one's effort
retribution
antagonise
falter
myriad
allude
dish it out
staggering
weather [quote]that is apparently comfortable weathering annual losses
high priest
self-professed / self-appointed
riding high
strife
aplenty [quote]the paper has endured internal strife aplenty at its HQ
-ite - Corbynite
refusenik
less-than-impeccable
suffer the consequences of
likewise
liken
frosty reception
predicament
insurgency
gargantuan
fissure
gripe
inexplicably
proprietor
beset
foot the bill
stable (noun)
term [Collins](B2)If you say that something is termed a particular thing, you mean that that is what people call it or that is their opinion of it.
throw someone under the bus (mainly US)
puzzlement
subsume
feat
cachet
by dint of
circulation - newspaper and magazine
potted (British) potted history
paywall
moot
rocket science - not rocket science
offload (mainly British)
holiday (verb)(mainly British)
upfront
test the water

cast
Chris Blackhurst
Katharine Viner
Suzanne Moore
Hadley Freeman
Adrian Chiles
Bill Nighy
Mary Beard
Anna Bateson
Ralph Fiennes
James Harding
Alan Rusbridger
Charles Dunstone
Dale Vince

Guido Fawkes
Scott Trust
GMG
Tortoise Media
National Union of Journalists
ABC - Audit Bureau of Circulations
Talk Talk

[quote]A survey finds that typical Guardian readers are into hiking, love Waitrose and their top dishes are antipasti, braised endive and parmigiana[unquote]

I'm a typical Guardian reader!
My living area in England was super conservative and I always got the Guardian because Telegraph or Times were sold out in the Waitrose.
I read the Guardian Online just because it's free. I always buy i when I choose printed news paper, because of the price and the content.

I understand what the author saying. I agree with him for the most part, but he's been working under Lord Lebedev.
I want read the comments on the article later.

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