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'''The Guardian''' is a [[UK]] national daily [[newspaper]] known for its [[liberal]], left-wing stance, being pro-[[abortion]] on demand, anti-[[Bush]] and anti-[[American]], pro-[[Obama]] and critical of [[Tony Blair]]'s support for the war in [[Iraq]].  ''The Guardian'' has just celebrated the publishing of its 50,000th edition.  

'''The Guardian''' (Sunday edition: '''''The Observer''''')<ref>''The Observer'' began as a separate Sunday newspaper in 1791 and predates the ''Manchester Guardian'' by 30 years. Guardian Media Group acquired ''The Observer'' in 1993.</ref> is a [[UK]] national daily [[newspaper]] known for its [[liberal]], left-wing stance.  ''The Guardian'' has just celebrated the publishing of its 50,000th edition. Originally known as the [[Manchester]] Guardian, since it was originally published there, it is owned by a charitable organisation, the Scott Trust. 

Originally known as the [[Manchester]] Guardian, since it was originally published there, it is owned by a charitable organisation, the Scott Trust.

 

{{cquote|The [[Richard Dawkins|Dawkins]] inspired "atheist ranters" come out in force on Guardian pages. They hate organised religion with a zeal, they deride the faithful as mentally retarded, they gibber on about [[Flying Spaghetti Monster|spaghetti monsters]] and sky pixies, as if such talk actually added anything meaningful to the debate. ... It is easy to picture these sycophantic drones smugly typing their intolerant bile, glowing with inner pride at their own rebellious contrariness.|||''Another Angry Voice'', a [[socialist]] internet blogger.<ref>[http://anotherangryvoice.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/richard-dawkins-slave-ancestor.html Richard Dawkins and the slave trade], ''Another Angry Voice''.</ref>}}

The Guardian has recently set up versions of its website in Australia and the United States; its website in the [[United Kingdom]] is one of the most popular in the country, and the majority of the site's views come from the [[United States|US]].<ref>However, despite being a UK-based website, ''guardian.co.uk'' is a more popular in the [[United States]] and multiculturalist [[Sweden]] than in the UK.<br>[http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/guardian.co.uk Statistics Summary for guardian.co.uk]</ref> The Guardian also runs the largest internet forum of any British newspaper in the form of Guardian Unlimited Talk.

 

Unsurprisingly, the comments on their internet opinion blog, ''Comment is Free'', can be somewhat problematic, given that anyone on the internet can comment on any article.

 

The paper had been described as "the Communist paper, The ''Manchester Guardian''" by Lord Beaverbrook,<ref>Crozier, W.P., edited by A.J.P.Taylor, ''Off The Record'', London, 1973, p.259. ISBN: 0-09-116250-5 "''I found Beaverbrook with Walter Citrine, General Secretary of the TUC. He presented me to him (Citrine) as 'The Editor of the Communist paper, The ''Manchester Guardian''.<nowiki>'</nowiki>''"</ref> by the [[communist]] [[Friedrich Engels]] as "an organ of the middle class",<ref>[[Friedrich Engels|Engels, Friedrich]], ''The Condition of the Working Class in England'', Progress, 1973, p. 109.</ref> and by Ted Scott as "a paper that will remain [[bourgeois]] to the last".<ref>Ayerst, ''The Guardian'', 1971, p. 471.</ref>

Regardless of its political stance, the great strength of ''The Guardian'' is that it rarely (in comparison to most other common newspapers in the UK) publishes sensationalist articles, preferring a quieter more balanced (and researched) approach. This is achieved by The Guardian organising its contents into two groups: articles about the news and opinion pieces (editorials, blogs, letters, etc.). News articles tend to be factually researched and factually accurate and written from a centre-left point of view, whereas opinion pieces are individual submissions that can range from the mid-right of the political spectrum to the mid-left, depending on the view of the writer, although submissions from the mid-left outnumber the submissions from the mid-right, due to the stance The Guardian takes on many issues.

However, to most people, the paper is regarded as a leftist [[liberal]] paper, as well as being pro-[[abortion]] on demand, anti-[[Bush]] and anti-[[American]], pro-[[Obama]] and critical of [[Tony Blair]]'s support for the war in [[Iraq]] (and of New Labour in general). The newspaper's reputation as a platform for [[liberal]] and left-wing opinions has led to the use of the epithets "''Guardian'' reader" and "Guardianista" for people holding such views,<ref>{{cite web|author=Department of the Official Report (Hansard), House of Commons, Westminster |url=http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200102/cmhansrd/vo011119/debtext/11119-08.htm#11119-08_spnew3 |title=Hansard 374:54 19 November 2001 |publisher=Publications.parliament.uk |date=19 November 2001 |accessdate=28 July 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4348620.stm|title=What the papers say|work=BBC News|date=17 October 2005}}</ref> or as a negative stereotype of such people as middle class, and [[politically correct]].

 

Its columnists include the irritated [[atheist]] and [[agnostic]] comedians Charlie Brooker<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/charliebrooker The Guardian - Charlie Brooker]</ref> and [[David Mitchell]],<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/davidmitchell The Guardian - David Mitchell]</ref><ref>See: [[Atheism and depression]]</ref> as well as Ariane Sherine,<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/arianesherine The Guardian - Ariane Sherine]</ref> who was responsible for setting up the atheist bus campaign, which propagated anti-Christian and pro-atheist slogans on buses in the United Kingdom, on behalf of the so-called British Humanist Association.

The Guardian has recently setup versions of it's website in Australia and the United States to further push it's left wing agenda.  

Given its openly left-wing stance, a blogger whose article appeared in The Guardian has stated that the new movie ''[[An American Carol]]'' is "propaganda masquerading as entertainment."<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2008/oct/01/1 Does An American Carol signal the rise of the Hollywood right?] Guardian, October 1, 2008</ref>

Given its openly left-wing stance, a blogger whose article appeared in The Guardian has stated that the new movie An American Carol is "propaganda masquerading as entertainment.” <ref>http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2008/oct/01/1 Does An American Carol signal the rise of the Hollywood right? Guardian, October 1, 2008</ref>

The paper's nickname '''''The Grauniad''''' (sometimes abbreviated as "Graun") originated with the satirical magazine ''[[Private Eye]]''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/dec/16/society|title=Surely shome mishtake?|work=The Guardian|date=16 December 2000| location=London|last=Sherrin|first=Ned}}</ref> This [[anagram]] played on ''The Guardian's'' early reputation for frequent typographical errors, including misspelling its own name as ''The Gaurdian''.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=_oO5fWi6dikC&pg=PA26 |pages=26–27 |title=Porcupine, Picayune, & Post: how newspapers get their names |first=Jim|last=Bernhard|publisher=University of Missouri Press|year=2007|isbn=0-8262-1748-6|accessdate=11 August 2013}}</ref>  

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