I've often wondered why the Guardian closed
1 its "Guardian Unlimited Talkboard" (GUT)
2 Website overnight without any any warning and even now without explanation on 25 February 2011. Looking at the date, I remembered an incident. The Guardian news website published a photo from Libya showing an SAS man in normal kahkis instructing rebels. This was a mistake and it was quickly removed, but not before someone had spotted it and published it on GUT. Since then we know how closely the Guardian works with the SIS (MI6) as was very publicly shown with the destruction of Edward Snowden's laptop. This was not the first time GUT "scooped". There were posters in Genoa 2001 G8 conference posting videos on what was going on there when the media was telling quite different stories. The wiki article
3 still does. The videos showed the Black Block having a cigarette break with the police, before they then went their own ways - the police to beat up peaceful demonstrators and the Black Block to go smashing up cars and non-corporate properties I also stumbled upon an article by Media Lens about the Guardian's 200 year celebration.
4. Worth reading.
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- https://www.theguardian.com/help/insideguardian/2011/feb/28/guardian-unlimited-talkboards ↩︎
- https://web.archive.org/web/20030604082036/http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee74cb9 ↩︎
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27th_G8_summit ↩︎
- https://www.medialens.org/2021/shocking-omissions-capitalisms-conscience-200-years-of-the-guardian-john-pilger-and-jonathan-cook-respond/ ↩︎