Thursday, 3 May 2007
No punchline required
Anyway, get this. It's World Press Freedom Day today. Guess, for reasons known only to themselves, who the Guardian's Comment is Free team thought was the best person to pontificate on the freedom of information and exchange of ideas afforded by blogs and other online communities?
You'll never guess.
Who? Tim Ireland? Try again.
Tim Worstall? Nope.
Tom Steinberg? Sorry.
I'm going to have to tell you. The person the Guardian's Comment is Free team thought was best suited to pontificate on the freedom of information and exchange of ideas afforded by blogs and other online communities?
Iain Dale.
No, really.
Allow yourself a short, hollow laugh.
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7 Comments:
- fido said...
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This shows you really, and I mean really have a problem with Iain.
11:59 AM, May 03, 2007
Now I take a dig at people(paul flynn MP & Terry Kelly to name but 2) but to set up a site in their "honour" - sounds like some weird cyber stalking shit to me.
Man have a cup of tea and chill out. - Tim said...
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How interesting that your comment and profile reveals you to be an author of Terry Watch. Contradict yourself much?
12:09 PM, May 03, 2007 - Sim-O said...
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I could do with a cup of tea after all this mirth.
1:14 PM, May 03, 2007 - Shutter said...
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If not satsified see remarks re Press Freedom Day
2:24 PM, May 03, 2007
http://tinyurl.com/2nvvgy
reaches the parts other blogs don't quite reach - fido said...
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Terry is a moonbat of the first order, go ask him anything, and I mean anything what so ever and you will be met with a massive torrent of abuse.
5:04 PM, May 03, 2007
Iain on the other hand seems to be relatively well adjusted(as much as anyone can be judged just be their output on the internet) - not really had a major read of all the stuff you have here about Iain(yet - and to be fair there is a lot of reading to be done)
Only a minor point I was invited in on Terry Watch, after I asked a few questions of the councillor Terry and was called everything under the sun.
Anyway all I can advise to try to ask Terry something and see for yourself, toodle pip. - Tim said...
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Soory, you lost me at "not really had a major read of all the stuff you have here"
5:53 PM, May 03, 2007 - Kid said...
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The use of allowing selective comments on Dale's and Staines' blogs (deletion and non apperance of anti-comments, suspicious proliferation of supportive chunterings) is not unique to these two "specialists"—just about all right wing blogs, newspapers and the like seem to employ ridiculous levels of moderation.
11:15 AM, May 10, 2007
I still have never been able to get one single comment published on the Telegraph, Mail or Times web sites. Yet many of the comments that are apparently worthy of the moderator's approval are often insane bigotted dribble. Simon Heffer's farting about imperial measurements today. I bet a tenner that at least one comment published on that article will manage to blame (at least partly) the adoption of the metric system on "immigrants". If I'm wrong, well, I'll just have to put that behind the bar at the Red Lion on June 27th...
