Shanahan spits the dummy.
Blogging, Intellectuals, commentators etc - - Posted on July, 12 at 2:00 am by Aussie Bob
Mumble (aka Peter Brent) wrote last night:
I think Dennis Shanahan wrote this this morning (as opposed to yesterday). The “PhD” mentions refer, I believe, to me.
A courtesy call from Editor-in-Chief Chris Mitchell this morning informed me that the paper is going to “go” Charles Richardson (from Crikey) and me tomorrow.
Chris said by all means criticise the paper, but my “personal” attacks on Dennis had gone too far, and the paper will now go me “personally”.
No, I’m not making this up.
If they only get as personal as I get with Dennis, then it should be tame, as I don’t believe I’ve ever criticised anything other than his writing.
And to think I described Dennis, in a chapter in a book being launched this month, as (with no sarcasm) “a fine journalist”.
All very strange. And - I’d be lying if I didn’t admit - a little stomach-churning.
Stomach-turning maybe. Nevertheless the question needs to be asked: Is this the start of the Blogs v. MSM flame war?
Peter sounds a little nervous about what might be in store for him from the fearsome nasties at News, led by the fecund Mr. Shanahan. I wouldn’t be. The shit Dennis has gotten himself into lately is entirely of his own making.
The man’s writing has lately become a caricature of good journalism. Every time he runs a blog at the Australian he receives literally hundreds of rightly mocking, sarcastic, critical posts pulling almost his every word apart for the Howard-boosting hooplah it is. A desultory few “usual suspects” support him. Yesterday’s effort, for example, was so awful that it was pulled by mid-afternoon after 16 - repeat 16 - posts, of which three supported him and one was neutral. The post before that was on Tuesday where he went on about barbeques, old dogs, sausages, the smell of onions and buttered bread: incomprehensible! He was mocked - and rightly - for that one too. As his metaphors got more and more intricate and excruciating, I was wondering whether he’d sprung a loose screw or two: how long would it take Dennis to crack completely? Well, now we have our answer.
For his newspaper to “go” Mumble and Crikey for legitimate criticism is a joke, beyond even the laughing stock that the Australian has become under Shanahan’s Political Editorship. Remember, this is the man who picked one August 2006 poll that showed a slight win for the government - out of half a dozen candidates that showed it losing - and called it the indication of “an election-winning margin”. The government, by the way, has not won one poll since, from any organisation.
This is the man who has breathlessly - but wrongly - told us about the end of the Rudd honeymoon since January more times than I’ve had a hot sausage sandwich. Burke was going to get Rudd. Then Eumundi. Then Long Tan. Then Therese Rein. And the Budget. And the “National Emergency”. And a seagull ate a chip at Bondi Beach… that ought to be enough to swing a “Howard Can’t Lose” piece from the redoubtable Dennis. Every time… every time Labor’s figures went up, not down and yet Shanahan, the master of the blarney, has the hide to tell us in yesterday’s pulled offering:
The Australian and Newspoll (and I) have been right about election result after election result. Just spare us the amateur and jaundiced analysis that can’t accept the numbers going in the opposite direction… So far History has been on my side.
What a giant of an imagination!
And now even Newspoll is going on the offensive, with yesterday’s (also heavily mocked) article by the Newspoll CEO, Martin O’Shannessey, who - no doubt to his own satisfaction - “proved” that a slight improvement in “Preferred PM” ratings for Howard meant the election was a done deal. UPDATE: In case you were interested, Possum does his usual comprehensively-argued job of debunking O’Shannessy’s theory here.
The Editorial from the day before gave us outright dodgy analysis of the “Iraq” part of the Newspoll, saying that “staying the course” was the most popular option from respondents, forgetting to mention that four alternatives were given and the other three involved either immediate or timetabled pull-out, to the tune of 63% support. This is not only cheeky and sneaky, it is downright dishonest. Who after that effort, after O’Shannessy’s self-serving chartist wank, after Shanahan’s phantasmaghoric, fawning foolishness with anything concerning “John Howard” could take this paper seriously any longer, at least in the field of political commentary?
(And I didn’t even get to Sheridan, Albrechtsen, Stevens and the rest of their pompous pontificators… with - at least on occasions - the relatively honourable exception of Matt Price, who seems to know what blogging’s all about… Matt gives the impression sometimes of being somewhat of a shirker in the Murdoch Culture Wars).
Do these guys at News think their reading public has had a collective frontal lobotomy? Do they expect their customers to just swallow their biased, looney manipulations whole, without even chewing? Do they really despise their blog contributors as much as Shanahan makes out? Are they really so afraid of criticism that they’re prepared to “go” the humble Mumble?
The answer, it seems, is sadly “Yes”. What a pathetic bunch of losers. Their condescending and now outright feral attitude is the best evidence yet that their pet government is going out big time next election. Shanahan should be especially fearful, as it was him who took the credit for getting rid of Beazley and having Rudd installed as leader. That one’s come back to bite you on the arse, hasn’t it Dennis?
For this, at least - large toothmarks in the Shanahan posterior - we can be thankful. The champagne comes later when Howard vacates Kirribilli under the watchful gaze of an APS officer, there to check for smuggled silverware. The icing on the cake will be Dennis’ first article post-election, as he has to admit that finally he got it totally wr… wr… wrong.
UPDATE: Well the article’s out, in the form of yet another self-congratulating Australian editorial. They sure get one thing right when they say,
Smug, self assured, delusional swagger is no substitute for getting it right.
They then go on to mock their readers and blog contributors i.e. “We, the People” claiming,
But they should not kid themselves they are engaged in proper journalism and real reporting.
No, no, no, no, no, no, NO! “Real reporting” is the strict provenance of the likes of Shanahan, who is described perfectly in his paper’s own editorial:
Not properly understanding how polls work gives our critics licence to project their own bias…
Last but not least we have the Big Lie:
The Australian is not beholden to any one side of politics…
Hold my sides, puhleeeaaase! They’re liable to split with mirth and merriment at that one. In a nutshell, the Australian’s editorial tells us ignorant readers, y’know, the ones who vote (pretty practical, that) and think (unfortunately for them):
So let’s not mince words. We just don’t think many of our critics have any real clue about polling and very little practical experience of politics.
Well, one thing I do have practical experience of is cooking sausages. And I reckon Dennis Shanahan and his mob at The Australian are one sausage short of the barbeque if they really believe they are the repository of all political wisdom, especially if that belief is based on the crap they’ve been doling out recently as “professional political analysis”.
Talk about Legends In Their Own Lunchtime.
P.S. And Mumble was right… they did give him a pretty tame going over. Anyone want to add a limp lettuce leaf to their sausage sandwich?
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July 12th, 2007 at 7:11 am
OMG! WTF! That editorial is pure gold. This online commentator has just one thing to say: Bwahahahahahahahhahahahahhahahahaa!
July 12th, 2007 at 8:29 am
Hilarious! Talk about the elephant and the flea. I’d have thought even the Oz would have more dignity, but Chris Mitchell is an odd bod.
At the C-M he spent a bundle trying to prove Manning Clarke was a Soviet agent or some such who used to like to ponce about in his Star of Lenin medal.
July 12th, 2007 at 8:53 am
Who gives a damn anyway? The OZ rag is just that, toilet paper. An ultra-looney right-wing propaganda hysteria fest.
And who reads it? No-one buys it. At my library I never see anyone reading it. It sits there alone while all the others get read.
I’d say only Adolf Howard and his Propaganda Minister Mr J. Goebells would ever read the trash. Oh, and I suppose Shanahan would. And the deranged Greg Sheridan.
Can anyone think of any more?
July 12th, 2007 at 8:53 am
You have really got to wonder why they have bothered. They are still trying to come to terms with Howards impending defeat while accusing online commentators of being out of touch with the wider public. “The Austalian” is twelve months behind, the public have decided made their judgement and are moving on. Time for Dennis to do the same.
July 12th, 2007 at 10:13 am
Interesting that Dennis argues that the only news interest is in what changes from the last poll to this one.
Not true.
When this poll is the same as the last what changes is HOW LONG the current trend (or status quo) has been established. 8 months, 9 months, 10 months, a year…
July 12th, 2007 at 10:13 am
I should add it makes the news when interest rates are left unchanged…
July 12th, 2007 at 10:18 am
Hey I’ll admit the polls look consistently good for the ALP folks, but sheesh, yer tempting the gods with some of these certain prophecies of inevitable victory. Kindly stop!
Sailbad, if I’m really bored I’ll read Emma Tom and look at the cartoons.
July 12th, 2007 at 10:26 am
Awww look, Sean…. This voodoo editorializing says more about them than about us. They’re trying to put a hex on Labor and its supporters by claiming infallibility in picking election winners. In essence they’ve fallen for their own propaganda, and the fact that they spout it is evidence of their own nervousness.
Their current position is that they can pick winners from a blip on a single poll graph, despite all other indicators being to the contrary.
This “Preferred PM” business was shuffled off the front pages about six months ago after Rudd claimed the territory from Dear Leader. We didn’t get a peep out of them on the subject until this week. They only trot it out when Howard comes close.
It’s chartism at its worst. Read the Possum analysis linked in the update to the main post.
July 12th, 2007 at 10:37 am
Is it just me, or has Tims article on this that appeared over at Blogocracy this morning been pulled?
July 12th, 2007 at 10:42 am
Possum is right - it’s gone at the moment (9:40 am EST).
If they have pulled it, they really are a low bunch that don’t understand how this all works.
Anyone got an archived copy of Tim’s entry?
Free speech, as long as it agrees with Mitchell & co.
July 12th, 2007 at 10:45 am
Was just coming here to mention that Tim’s article looks gone as well. I have the text in Google Reader still.
July 12th, 2007 at 10:46 am
It’s fascinating. Today’s editorial says it all - Mitchell has become so delusional that he thinks he can exercise Murdoch’s power and have a serious impact. He clearly has no idea about how to gently and subtly influence - he is an out of touch bully. Hilarious.
July 12th, 2007 at 10:48 am
its gone finito
oh well back to pseudo-democracy
July 12th, 2007 at 10:48 am
I’ve been getting the Weekend Australian delivered for years, but over the past year I have found I’m actually reading less of it. In too many of the articles with an editorial or comment aspect, it’s just too easy to guess what they’re going to say. Since Rudd became Leader of the Opposition, all pretence of objectivity has vanished.
So when the subscription renewal notice landed in my mailbox last week, I just couldn’t see the point.
July 12th, 2007 at 10:50 am
By Christ your right what a gutless bunch,typical bully they can dish it out but cant take it.
Only goes to show what little creditability the OZ has left,why don,t they just change there name to The Govt Gazette and be done with it,if Rudd wins I think they will find stories thin on the ground
July 12th, 2007 at 11:44 am
AB: “The man has lately become a caricature of good journalism.”
He’s not a journo’s whoppee cushion, Bob.
He’s “Shill” Shanahan: Ace Stenographer, the PNAC primed, Judith Miller of Oz broadsheet bullshit. How Dennis finds time to remove his hand from his dick to one of Citizen Rupert’s keyboards in the course of his manual labour, is one of Downunder Stenography’s great unsolved mysteries.
July 12th, 2007 at 11:52 am
EC, I’ve since changed that quote to
“The man’s writing has lately become a caricature of good journalism.”
… which is what I actually meant to say, with the emphasis on “journalism” rather than “journalist” (blame my 2am blog posting efforts for that).
As for your take on it, I think it still holds.
July 12th, 2007 at 11:59 am
(Quotes from the ‘Mouse That Roared’ - 1959)
Nice one AB!…a hit into the stands.
July 12th, 2007 at 12:02 pm
They must be pretty worried to turn on the Blogosphere like this.
July 12th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
Trackback:
http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/07/12/the-government-gazette-fights-back-ii/
July 12th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
I’m extremely disquieted by the removal of Tim Dunlop’s article on this matter a couple hours ago. I’ve tried to use Tim’s next article’s comment space as a chance to ask what’s happening, but for the first time ever my comment was rejected. If the moderator of RTS can tell us anything of a general nature about Blogocracy’s current situation, it would be greatly appreciated.
July 12th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
Tim, hope there is not too much trouble from The Oz for you. Thanks for telling it as it is, despite it obviously affecting your freedom on Blogocracy. hope there is no permanent damage to your tenure.
July 12th, 2007 at 1:15 pm
Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas.
I used to enjoy Road To Surfdom so much before the shills bought Tim for his credibility.
Remember he gave an assurance that he, and he alone, would have full editorial control? And remember how those of us who expressed doubt (such as Gandhi) were shouted down?
Does this mean he self-censored that last post, or has he been told one of Rupert’s famous lies? He’s making similar promises to the journalists at the Wall Street Journal right now.
July 12th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
[...] issue is taken up by Road to Surfdom where the whole thing is described as a dummy [...]
July 12th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
Darryl Rose on Larvatus Prodeo has pasted Tim’s article.
I also copy and pasted that on my blog as well.
July 12th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
RE: Megan’s comment about Tim Dunlop’s editorial control and credibility.
After reading many thousands of posts at “Blogocracy”, I think Tim Dunlop deserves to be given the benefit of the doubt until we find out the reasons why his article was withdrawn this morning. If it is clear (or can be clearly extrapolated) that Megan’s premises are supported, it will be far more in sorrow than in anger that I will acknowledge the validity of her negative viewpoint about “Blogocracy”.
July 12th, 2007 at 1:49 pm
You can’t just delete something from the ‘Net anymore.
If you subscribe to a feed service such as Bloglines, you’ll find Tim’s post there archived forever.
July 12th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
Don’t jump on Tim just yet Megan. Somebody over at LP reproduced Tim’s piece in the The Government Gazette Fights Back (part I) thread if you want to read it.
It’s a long piece, which he wouldn’t have written if he didn’t think it would stay put.
It’s more likely that Tim’s a wee bit cross about having it pulled.
I think the GG will come to regret this whole episode. It’s not as if Ozblogistan is going to hang its collective head in shame and slink off into a corner to remonstrate with itself.
What are the rules here? Does someone have to declare war or is that just the assumed state of affairs?
July 12th, 2007 at 2:05 pm
Rupert Murdoch: There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and so cheap to start a newspaper or start a magazine, there’s just millions of voices and people want to be heard.
Yes, voices to be bought, to be manipulated or character assassinated by sewer swimmers indebted to our contemporary Moriarity.
N’…in my heart I don’t believe Tim is one of THEM.
“He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order. He sits motionless, like a spider in the center of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them. He does little himself. He only plans. But his agents are numerous and splendidly organized. Is there a crime to be done, a paper to be abstracted, we will say, a house to be rifled, a man to be removed — the word is passed to the Professor, the matter is organized and carried out. The agent may be caught. In that case money is found for his bail or his defence. But the central power which uses the agent is never caught — never so much as suspected.”
Sherlock Holmes, in “The Final Problem”
“You stand in the way not merely of an individual, but of a mighty organization, the full extent of which you, with all your cleverness, have been unable to realize. You must stand clear, Mr. Holmes, or be trodden under foot.’”
Professor Moriarty, in “The Final Problem”
July 12th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
UPDATE on “Blogocracy”.
A comment on the current “Blogocracy” thread has just been cleared through a few minutes ago which is asking where the morning post has gone. No response from Tim. There was an inordinately long pause prior to this post appearing, so I think it’s quite possible that discussions on the issue are being undertaken as we speak. I wish Tim all the best, whatever he’s attempting to sort out.
July 12th, 2007 at 2:19 pm
Sorrow or anger, it doesn’t really matter. The point is that this is the Murdoch MO and always has been. Get caught telling a lie? Well just point out all the times you told the truth and that should fix it up. All Murdoch credibility is totally shot and Mitchell is crapping his dacks and responding in the only way he knows - brute force.
Tim promised that he would wait and see and would NEVER tolerate getting spiked. I’m not angry or sad really, I hope that Tim has a humungously public dummy spit and brings his bat and ball back here away from those shills.
It is not an exageration to say that Murdoch’s papers are a threat to our democracy.
July 12th, 2007 at 2:26 pm
Just for a larf: PRIME Minister John Howard made an embarrassing start to his whistle-stop tour of Tasmania when he forgot the name of the Liberal candidate for the seat of Franklin in the state’s southeast.
Mr Howard hesitated on ABC radio this morning when he was asked to name candidate Vanessa Goodwin.
“I support all of my Liberal colleagues,” he replied before he was interrupted and asked again to name Dr Goodwin.
He then admitted: “I don’t know.”
July 12th, 2007 at 2:33 pm
Didn’t the Bomber get crucified for a similar gaffe a while ago?
I trust we’ll see a comparable reaction from the MSM.
July 12th, 2007 at 2:33 pm
All the best, Tim!
July 12th, 2007 at 2:34 pm
All the best for Tim, cos’ he don’t put up with no Murdoch sh*t! Hope he does come back here instead.
ok fellas, one job well done
Bring on the Terrorgraph!
July 12th, 2007 at 2:42 pm
Well, bring it on, I say. It is time for a showdown over the Oz’s appalling track record of conservative arse-licking, and now is a good a time as any. They cannot win, the facts are firmly on the side of its critics in the blogworld.
I agree with those who say let’s give TimD the benefit of the doubt until more info comes out. His track record is pretty damn good so far, and I am confident that any pulling of articles was against his wishes. I can’t say I am surprised about this development, it was inevitable he would end up clashing with the management.
(I’d love to be a fly on the wall inside the Oz editorial suite right now. I bet the fur is flying.)
July 12th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
Tim Dunlop is under the pump at Blogocracy today. He put up an aticle in response to The Oz’s self indulgent editorial this morning. The article was down within an hour and posting to blogocracy today has been slower than getting the truth out of John Howard.
They are mistaken if they think they can conceal voter intentions with endless spin. The election will come and the government will go. In the meantime, what happened to freedom of speech?
July 12th, 2007 at 3:15 pm
The full text of Tim’s post is here:
http://rankandvile.dailyflute.com/?p=418
July 12th, 2007 at 3:18 pm
“In the meantime, what happened to freedom of speech?”
It’s being safeguarded by a small circle of important people at The Australian so the rest of us can’t spoil it with our amateurish ignorance.
July 12th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
Nothing like a good dose of media imperialism is there?
July 12th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
I get the feeling something is terribly wrong over at Blogocracy. Since Tim’s article was pulled, posts have been going up incredibly slowly. And my last two posts asking what was going on didn’t even make it past the keeper.
Tim is no where to be seen either.
Hope Tim is ok. It’s a sad day for freedom of speech.
July 12th, 2007 at 3:57 pm
Excellent take on all this Aussie Bob. Good to see you firing on all cylinders. Mitchell was limp, he tried for shock and awe and only succeeded in drawing mainstream attention to Australian political blogs. Good stuff.
Here’s my round-up and summary of why Mitchell has set ablaze a blogstream insurgency he will never be able to tamp down again :
http://www.theorstrahyun.blogspot.com
Hope Tim isn’t being suffocated.
July 12th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
Off topic again from me but worth it for more inadvertant larfs, this time from unforgettable Liberal candidate Vanessa er, Thingy….
Prime Minister John Howard has apologised to a federal Liberal candidate for forgetting her name.
Vanessa Goodwin is looking to win the southern Tasmanian seat of Franklin from Labor.
Speaking on ABC Radio this morning, Mr Howard said Ms Goodwin has his support but he could not recall her name.
Ms Goodwin says she is not disappointed.
“No not at all, these things happen - I forget people’s names, I’m sure you do to,” she said.
“It’s just one of those things that happens.
“I was delighted really when the Prime Minister rang to apologise for forgetting my name.”
July 12th, 2007 at 4:43 pm
A thoroughly hopeless, drivelling display by the poisonous Shanahan. One can only assume that News Ltd. are terrified of the prospect of the real degree of voter discontent gaining currency. I’ve had ten goes at getting a post on The OZ today, ( admittedly, none of them pro-Howard, and some giving Shatahan a flea in his ear ) and each one has failed. If you can’t agree with them, shut them up.
July 12th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
There a a few posts up asking what happen,but no reply as of 1 39 WA time.I had a go on Shanahans blog but did not make it.
The local morning radio bloke in Perth,6pr, takes this clod as his political commentator and just accepts what he says no questions nothing, so Shanahan just spins away why they don,t get people with a few guts on morning radio I don,t know.
But then this is Perth and we tend to be very gullible here
July 12th, 2007 at 5:46 pm
John Ryan: To my utter dismay Shanahan turned up on the ABC News Radio channel on AM in Melbourne, whining on about Howard ‘out of the woods’ and other banalities. The media in this country is in a sorry state when this kind of puffery is foisted on us a ‘comment’.
July 12th, 2007 at 6:54 pm
“Shill” Shanahan: Ace Stenographer
That’s so good EC. I’m stealing it.
July 12th, 2007 at 7:19 pm
Interesting that the Australian decides to take on the Blogosphere just as the BS anti-Global Warming theories flick is about to hit Aussie screens.
Whether it’s selling bogus ‘popularity’ polls to the masses or attempting to play both sides of the fence on the Global Warming issue…there’s a feeling creeping thru the electorate that something is not quite right w/ this Federal Govt. & their media enablers.
Just a reminder:
David Burton: What did I see?
Chris Lee: A dream.
David Burton: What are dreams?
Chris Lee: Dream like hearing … seeing … talking … the way of knowing things.
——————————————————————————–
Chris Lee: Dream is a shadow … of something real.
——————————————————————————–
Chris Lee: [to David Burton] But you … I think you may be mukuru. You different tribe … from another world … across the sea … from sunrise.
——————————————————————————–
David Burton: We’ve lost our dreams. Then they come back and we don’t know what they mean.
(Quotes from Aussie film ‘The Last Wave’ - 1977 from IMDB)
July 12th, 2007 at 10:37 pm
Never realised that “proper journalism and real reporting” involved slagging off bloggers who dare to analyze your opinion pieces. What a professional our national daily is!
July 12th, 2007 at 11:48 pm
Neither should Shanahan.
And I’d argue that most of the bloggers analyzing the journalists are not kidding themselves that they’re engaged in proper journalism and real reporting. They think they’re engaged in journalism analysis or something…
July 13th, 2007 at 6:49 am
Having somehow tripped the moderation-switch with the following at LP, I’ll note here that the Oz demonstrates a laudable commitment to “Keeping the Nation Informed” even though the nation is composed of ungrateful idiots incapable of comprehending the edicts the GG hands down from Mt Sinai - “But none of that will cut much ice with the battlers” - the GG today publishes an odd little Myspace promo that also mentions the terrible risk Rudd runs by having more Myspace friends than John Howard. A porn-site url is also printed in full. For some reason.
I’ve just received the critically important “Facebook friends” polling, which returns similar results:
John Howard: 18 friends
John Winston Howard: 39 friends
Kevin Rudd: 2273 friends
Incapable of drawing any conclusions from this web of complex data I passed the figures onto Dennis Shanahan who informed me that these figures are great news for John Howard.
July 13th, 2007 at 9:44 am
If it is true regarding Tim, then it is a sad sad day for blogging. I do notice that Shananigans article today is completely different in tone and conclusions to his original on Tuesday.
July 13th, 2007 at 10:21 am
A sad day for Tim perhaps but I don’t see that it has any significance for blogging. The MSM runs on typical corporate business models, focused on developing a limited number of products that can be promoted to customers. That’s hopefully not what blogging’s about.
The sooner bloggers strike out on their own and leave the tiresome MSM columnists squabbling over their shrinking little dungheap the better.
July 13th, 2007 at 11:26 am
John Howard: 18 friends
John Winston Howard: 39 friends
Kevin Rudd: 2273 friends
——————–
Made my day this morning when I heard on morning news the breakdown of MySpace friends for the political identities (Rudd, Gillard, Turnbull and Hockey) with Labor numbers above 2000 and the Libs at 8, but 5 of them were Liberal party members.
July 13th, 2007 at 12:54 pm
What a gutless little wanker Tim Blair is,censorship what censorship,Gobble would have been proud of him and the right wing crap that post there
July 13th, 2007 at 2:10 pm
Yes, once a gutless little wanker, always a gutless little wanker.
More importantly, does anyone know what’s going on over at Blogocracy?
Does Tim have a good lawyer?
July 13th, 2007 at 2:24 pm
unbelievable stuff. it’s hard to believe that News would be prepared to see a writer of Tim’s calibre walk away over something like this. a really bad call if they’ve censored him and consequently lost him, especially given he’s been raking in the readers for them.
hopefully it will work itself out.
blog on, Tim! we luvs ya!
July 13th, 2007 at 2:41 pm
Agreed Gianna. Idon’t know what’s going on over at Blogocracy. Tim’s gone AWOL.
It will be a real shame if they have lost him.
July 13th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
this from tim blairs blog-says it all raelly about rightoids
“As sick as it may seem, I’m almost positive Dunlop was masturbating furiously as he foretold the right’s doom.
It’s a fantasy, all right.
Tosser.
Posted by Hucbald on 2007 07 13 at 12:37 AM • permalink
July 13th, 2007 at 4:40 pm
Tim’s back….
Not sure about the following though…:
“CODA: Apologies for the recent absence and lack of response, not to mention lack of posts. Yep, the editor here pulled a post yesterday, which I ain’t happy about, though of course, in the greater scheme of things editors pulling copy is hardly unusual. Nonetheless, it is something we are discussing.”