Happy 200th birthday to the “Guardian” newspaper
For half a century now, I’ve read the “Guardian” newspaper and, even today, I regularly spend between one and two hours a day devouring its unique curation of stories from the UK and around the world. Its coverage of the coronavirus global pandemic has been outstanding. Most of the time, it reflects – more than any other British newspaper – my social democratic views.
Today the newspaper is 200 year old.
It started in Manchester as a consequence of the Peterloo massacre of 1819. In the intervening 200 years, the “Guardian” has grown from a weekly newspaper serving a few thousand Manchester liberals to a global operation with newsrooms in the UK, US and Australia, tens of millions of regular readers all over the world, and more than 1.5 million supporters in 180 countries.
Together with the “New York Times’ and the “Washington Post”, it is one of the leading English-language newspapers on the globe.
Long may it continue ..