Mandragora Guardian

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The Mandragora Guardian
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Guardian front page, 13th Feb 2007

Type Daily newspaper
Format Berliner
Print language English
Availability
 - Weekdays
 - Weekends

Local, regional, national
International

Focus city Pacitalia_smaller.jpg Mandragora, Beracanto, Pacitalia
Headquarters

 
3054 Corso Sabesca
Mandragora, Beracanto
Pacitalia 0560D
Political bias Fiscal and social conservatism
Motto
 
Serving Mandragora and Central Beracanto since 1777

Circulation
- Mandragora
- Beracanto
- Pacitalia
- International

3,903,400 (1st)
56,330,500 (3rd)
68,874,300 (6th)
302,000,000 (estimate)

Price
- Weekdays
- Weekends

65f (~ NSD 1,42)
Ð 1,00 (~ NSD 2,18)
Established 1777
Workforce 1,241 (2006)
Website http://www.guardian.pc

The Mandragora Guardian is a local daily-circulation newspaper based in Mandragora, Beracanto, Pacitalia, published by the Beracanto News Group. The Guardian is, in terms of readership, ranked second in the country among local newspapers, behind the Timiocato Post-Chronicle. It is ranked sixth overall among daily circulations across the country, behind the four national newspapers (La Repubblica Oggia, Tempo Passo, L'Osservatore and The Pacitalian) and the Post-Chronicle.

Based on Corso Sabesca in Mandragora's CBD, the Guardian employs 1,241 on its staff and owns six publishing warehouses that deliver the over 300 million daily printed copies to homes, newsstands and businesses both in Pacitalia and, on weekends, around the world. The newspaper was founded in 1777 and politically, leans well to the right, with frequent editorials opposing leftist views or solutions to current affairs.

The Guardian made headlines in Pacitalia and allied countries on 13th February, 2007 because of an article written by the newspaper's media affairs correspondent, Spiridon Medis. Medis railed PINA for employing what he referred to as an "embarrassing... ideological double standard" (source). Medis said that while PINA tries to be the voice of the developing world and the face of a communist (or at least heavily socialist) country, it supports capitalism through its active engagement in competition within the media industry, and most of all, through its very existence in a now heavily "free-market" media. Reaction to Medis' article in Pacitalia has not been necessarily critical; rather, simply wary that the article might stall increasingly warm relations between the PDSRA and Pacitalia.