A couple of short comments on new media
In my opinion, if you ever find yourself running as your main news story the fact that I once said in an email that I find Fox News a bit scary, your quest to compete with the Huffington Post is probably not on track.
If, however, this or something like it is still your top story five days later, that's actually quite pathetic. Were the Pentagon Papers front page news five days running? Even the Kennedy assassination probably didn't get this treatment.
By the way, I'm not "a Guardian columnist" and never have been, although I am happy to let the rumour get round that I am as it might get me invited to better parties.
PS: I am hardly an Italian fashion model, but really: crap tie.
I would have thought you could plausibly be mistaken for a Guardian columnist on the grounds that you used to have a blog there. But what was the Mail/Facebook post?
ReplyDeleteIt was a post to that mailing list, about the case where the Daily Mail ran a story about "Paedos on Facebook", where it turned out that the author had submitted a story about a different social network site, and the Hell had changed it to "Facebook" to make it more exciting. The point was to note that Fox News was in a situation where it combined American libel and free speech laws with British media ethics, and this was quite a frightening prospect. ("Genuinely scared" was basically conversational hyperbole - I'd have said "somewhat peturbed, although sincerely so", if I knew I was writing for the ages).
ReplyDeleteI would have thought you could plausibly be mistaken for a Guardian columnist on the grounds that you used to have a blog there
You'd think so, wouldn't you? But do I get any respect for it, do I I hell.
Thing is, Ole Rupe would probably agree with you to some extent[1] wrt Fox News. He seems to tolerate it and the utter buffoon who runs it (judging by Michael Wolff's book) mainly because makes a pile of money. Which has a certain honesty about it.
ReplyDelete[1] You'd have to get him drunk first. Not an apparently tricky thing to do.
Crap tie? You know he's infamous for the bow kind, don't you? scary.
ReplyDeleteYou've probably already read Brad DeLong, but I'll link anyway.
On liberals and Fox News, Rachel Maddow is brilliant. (Video loses the plot when it moves into the realms of fantasy.)
Also found while looking for that, John Cole venting: "So basically, Tucker Carlson’s vanity project is now reduced to bitching that liberals were happy that Obama won?"
Finally, I didn't even know what 'The Daily Caller' was, until Mad Mel cited it at great length. I almost feel sorry for the Spectator.
Is anyone unconnected to journolist paying any attention. Even if it was true, its a steady drip of tedium.
ReplyDeleteThe tie is certainly crap by itself, but what is that sorry excuse for a knot it's tied in?
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