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It is very “British” with wit, puns, long running silly gags, in-jokes, smart headlines, sarcasm, and self-deprecating jokes.

However, The Register is usually technically correct and regularly breaks important news (good journalism). Minor technical (or grammatical) errors will be lambasted in comments.

Essentially, the style meshes well with it’s target readership, and they are very happy that anyone that doesn’t like the style auto-excludes themselves from the readership/community.

Didn't mean to question the story quality, but even given the British humour, I still don't like The Register style.

"Biting the hand that feeds IT"

>The Register write style, especially the headings

Basically all mainstream journalism coming out of the UK is garbage (FT & economist excluded I guess). Even the BBC has been showing some partisan leanings lately

With that sort of bar, pretty much all journalism would be classed as “garbage”, UK or not. Which might well be true, I’m just saying it’s hardly a British phenomenon.

Not at all the only person.