The Guardian Shows Anti-Tory Bias

Clicking through The Guardian for the latest election news I was surprised to stumble across the paper's "tactical voting guide." It's a riding by riding list of where voters wishing to keep the Tories out of power should choose Labour or the Lib-Dems.

There's something about this that makes me feel uncomfortable. Should any newspaper go this far to impact an election outcome? Where do you draw the line?

Not that it makes much difference anyway. The Tories are expected to pick up about 90+ seats with Labour losing roughly as many. Curiously enough, the Lib-Dems seem apt to lose a few themselves. The final call is Tories short of a majority but able to form a government with a small party coalition.

The Guardian Ditching Newsprint

The legendary English newspaper, The Guardian, is giving up and following many American papers into an electronic-only publication:

Consolidating its position at the cutting edge of new media technology, the Guardian today announces that it will become the first newspaper in the world to be published exclusively via Twitter, the sensationally popular social networking service that has transformed online communication.

The move, described as "epochal" by media commentators, will see all Guardian content tailored to fit the format of Twitter's brief text messages, known as "tweets", which are limited to 140 characters each. Boosted by the involvement of celebrity "twitterers", such as Madonna, Britney Spears and Stephen Fry, Twitter's profile has surged in recent months, attracting more than 5m users who send, read and reply to tweets via the web or their mobile phones.

Read more here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/apr/01/guardian-twitter-media-technology