Journalism for the Guardian, Tanya Gold
Luckily, before today I had never read an article that Tanya Gold of English news site, Guardian, has written. Unfortunately, in my daily cycle through the blogs I read, I was introduced.
Okay, so the piece had some interesting ideas about style but it didn’t quite hit the mark - it was this article about why the writer hates fashion. I believe this piece only got the limelight because of her straight-forward attitude and how shocking many fashion bloggers found it. And maybe because so many people are angry with the fashion industry these days for one reason or another.
The article is the embodiment of bitterness. She’s a middle-aged woman, she’s overweight and overpaid, and when she was younger, she obviously had self-image issues. Wait, she still does. You can tell she’s upset about it and has spent most of her life until recently trying to mold herself into the concept of ‘beautiful’ as defined by the fashion industry. But a lot of girls have gone through the same thing. These days, if you don’t have a self-image issue, you’re one of the lucky few, you’re already gorgeous, or you haven’t found the need to pick up a fashion mag and try to fit the part of the ‘flawlessly airbrushed and photoshopped beauty’ that society supposedly “wants.”
Once I’d finished reading that article, I wanted to know more about her. I wanted to know who she was, what her real thoughts were like, and what made her a ‘journalist.’
I read more articles from the past couple of years. I want to know one thing now - who hired her and why have they kept her? Her writing style is usually atrocious, sometimes unreadable and generally disjointed, as if she had random thoughts and threw them in wherever and whenever; her articles are about as good as some teenagers’ blogs. It seems like she didn’t bother to go back and actually read what she had written and she sounds like a woman who has become jaded: She didn’t have good experiences with relationships, sex, university, weight, or fashion and so she hates on everything. What a waste of effort. What a waste of money the Guardian is handing over to her.
If you’re interested in actually reading some of the articles that I had bothered to read, well, here you are:
• How on earth do students survive Freshers’ Week?
• The queen of unkindness
• Remembrance of flings past
• Going back in time
• The politics of sharing a bed
• Why I confess all
yikes, i don't know if i want to read any of her articles! maybe i will save them for a time when i want to get mad, haha
I googled 'Tanya Gold is a moron' before writing this just to see if it was an obvious fact. Mostly people just tell her she's an idiot that can't write on her articles instead of bothering to write something on their own blogs. Hm.
Bless you, Ollie. You've hit the nail bang on the head- I suspect the Daily Mail should hold a post open for Tanya, in case Liz Jones ever decides to quit- their 'writings' are in the same vein.
Oh dear, you're right about those two! How do these people get hired?
I wasn't too far off the mark- apparently Tanya Gold does in fact write for the Daily Mail, and defended Liz Jones in a column on the Guardian once. Like you, I wonder how these people get hired..
I thought Tanya used to write for the Mail but somehow got "promoted" to Guardian. I can't be too bothered to look, however.
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