"Other papers are also weighted in one way or another, but the Guardian gets a lot of quotes on here partly because it is free. (the online version). That is the reason for singling it out."

Not so Nigel, The Manchester Guardian was delivered to our house when I was child back in the 50's. I have been reading it in all that time as I find it to be a reasonably balanced newspaper with little of the hype or even downright lies of many other newspapers, like the Mail, Express and the Sun.