The Guardian’s slime-job on Chomsky

by Heather Mallick
Rabble.ca
November 26, 2005

Here it is, Boycott 6 (hurricanes don’t even go that high). I wrote in my How to Boycott column last week that I dreaded this one out of journalistic faith. Oh ye of vanished belief.

I read the centre-left British newspaper the Guardian online and pay $620 a year to get its Saturday paper airmailed. I’ve been reading it for 40 years. No, I am not 102. I am 46 but we got the Guardian Weekly when I was a kid. I think it’s the best newspaper in the world; many Canadians read it.

Every publication has a gormless reporter, often several. This person is stupid, but handy. The great advantage is that there’s a certain kind of story even he can’t screw up. If it’s an interview with a model