{"id":1301,"date":"2005-10-07T17:37:54","date_gmt":"2005-10-07T21:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1301"},"modified":"2005-10-07T17:37:54","modified_gmt":"2005-10-07T21:37:54","slug":"the-times-has-rss-feeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1301","title":{"rendered":"The Times has RSS feeds"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been wanting them for years, since I loathe reading the paper. Apart from a couple of columnists, it’s tripe: I can see it turning into the Daily Express<\/em> for people who don’t care about Diana. It’s a coarse, inaccurate right-wing tabloid which doesn’t have the political punch of the Sun<\/em> or the Daily Mail.<\/em><\/p>\n\n

I stopped the Sunday Times<\/em> first, a few years ago, because that’s even worse. I sometimes miss John Cornwell’s magazine pieces, but they are rare. The religious news, which I have to read, I can get from the web site.<\/p>\n\n

Then, at some stage quite soon after the Times<\/em> went tabloid in format as well as policy, I realised that I didn’t need to buy it any longer. I could just whizz through the web site once a day. I know that for the Church Times<\/em> press column I should in theory skim all the papers but if you try to do that, it takes two hours from the day – or did when I filled in on the Wrap from time to time. So I buy the Telegraph,<\/em> the Mail,<\/em> the Guardian,<\/em> and the Independent<\/em> every day and subscribe to the FT online.<\/p>\n\n

If you read these four you’ll know most of what’s going on in Britain, except for what’s on mass market television – for that you’d have to read a proper tabloid as well, preferably on Sundays. In fact I could drop the Indie<\/em> without much pain but it does have Fisk and Adrian Hamilton is fun. Anyway, my wife likes it. But the Telegraph,<\/em> the Mail,<\/em> and the Guardian<\/em> all in their different ways illuminate aspects of Britain that no other paper can.<\/p>\n\n

The interesting divide in British politics is anyway not between Right and Left but between the American imperial party and the incohate rest. Though the Times<\/em> does represent Murdoch’s pro-Empire line entirely faithfully, it’s not as informative on this as the Daily Telegraph<\/em> which tells me in its leader columns exactly what Karl Rove wants me to believe; and in its news reporting shows he’s lying.<\/p>\n\n

The paper papers do get read, from cover to cover. But even the FT<\/em> doesn’t get read as often as it should and the Times,<\/em> I realised when a friend pointed out a particularly shameful<\/a> story, just doesn’t get read at all. On the web, it’s just another site less interesting than Metafilter.<\/p>\n\n

The RSS <\/span>feed should at least make it easier to skim the headlines, and sure enough I was rewarded at once with a classic<\/a> of the modern Times:<\/em> ‘Wonderbra saved my life’ says woman caught in crossfire.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

“An accountant told today how her bra saved her life when she was caught in the crossfire of a street shoot-out between rival gangs….”<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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