Comments on: Deny everything, Baldrick (UPDATE) http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/06/20/deny-everything-baldrick/ “ferocity with a purpose” Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:30:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Liberal Democrat Voice » Brown's failed poachings: the views of the Lib Dem blogs http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/06/20/deny-everything-baldrick/comment-page-1/#comment-66362 Liberal Democrat Voice » Brown's failed poachings: the views of the Lib Dem blogs Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:14:04 +0000 http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/06/20/deny-everything-baldrick/#comment-66362 [...] James Graham, Quaquam Blog!: ‘Deny everything, Baldrick (Updated)’ [...] [...] James Graham, Quaquam Blog!: ‘Deny everything, Baldrick (Updated)’ [...]

]]> By: Peter McGrath http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/06/20/deny-everything-baldrick/comment-page-1/#comment-65865 Peter McGrath Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:02:25 +0000 http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/06/20/deny-everything-baldrick/#comment-65865 The Guardian are quite capable of making things up: I got on the wrong end of one one their stories - an inaccurate news story and a reference to it in a leader. Something they could have checked with one phone call, or a hundred yard walk and a simple question. When I confronted the journalist concerned he (apart to from looing quite alarmed, I was of a mind to rip his arms off) said they 'couldn't be expected to check every fact', walked away, got defensive. Funny, doing my NCTJ pre-entry newspaper journalism course I was told that was exactly what would be expected of a rookie reporter. I wanted a retraction and an apology, my then boss said it didn't do to go to war with journalists. The Guardian are quite capable of making things up: I got on the wrong end of one one their stories – an inaccurate news story and a reference to it in a leader. Something they could have checked with one phone call, or a hundred yard walk and a simple question. When I confronted the journalist concerned he (apart to from looing quite alarmed, I was of a mind to rip his arms off) said they ‘couldn’t be expected to check every fact’, walked away, got defensive. Funny, doing my NCTJ pre-entry newspaper journalism course I was told that was exactly what would be expected of a rookie reporter. I wanted a retraction and an apology, my then boss said it didn’t do to go to war with journalists.

]]> By: James Graham http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/06/20/deny-everything-baldrick/comment-page-1/#comment-65854 James Graham Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:36:13 +0000 http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/06/20/deny-everything-baldrick/#comment-65854 It's quite simple. LDYS is an autonomous organisation and when the Blair-Ashdown joint statement was published I was working for them based in Cowley Street. As such I was one of the few people in the building who was able to put developments up on the party's private internet conferencing system. Ashdown's staff didn't like it and leant, on the chair to shut me up and inquired about the disciplinary procedure. Nice. It’s quite simple. LDYS is an autonomous organisation and when the Blair-Ashdown joint statement was published I was working for them based in Cowley Street. As such I was one of the few people in the building who was able to put developments up on the party’s private internet conferencing system. Ashdown’s staff didn’t like it and leant, on the chair to shut me up and inquired about the disciplinary procedure. Nice.

]]> By: Laurence Boyce http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/06/20/deny-everything-baldrick/comment-page-1/#comment-65848 Laurence Boyce Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:25:49 +0000 http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/06/20/deny-everything-baldrick/#comment-65848 So are you going to elaborate on the story of Ashdown's office trying to get you sacked? Did they succeed? Or will we have to wait for "The Graham Diaries" to find out? So are you going to elaborate on the story of Ashdown’s office trying to get you sacked? Did they succeed? Or will we have to wait for “The Graham Diaries” to find out?

]]> By: Hywel Morgan http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/06/20/deny-everything-baldrick/comment-page-1/#comment-65835 Hywel Morgan Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:57:41 +0000 http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/06/20/deny-everything-baldrick/#comment-65835 Quite - how many times did Kennedy have to dismiss such stories as nonsense? I can't remember any and certainly not after 2001. It really is pretty unlikely that the Guardian just made this up - the stories they ran 1994-9 were largely correct (in generality if not every detail) and then they stopped. If the Ashdown experience taught us anything (see Ashdown Diaries Vol 2 pgs 1-560) it is that smoke means there is fire somewhere. It's also good information about who the really devious s***s are in the Parly Party - which in fairness didn't appear to include Ming. Quite – how many times did Kennedy have to dismiss such stories as nonsense? I can’t remember any and certainly not after 2001. It really is pretty unlikely that the Guardian just made this up – the stories they ran 1994-9 were largely correct (in generality if not every detail) and then they stopped.

If the Ashdown experience taught us anything (see Ashdown Diaries Vol 2 pgs 1-560) it is that smoke means there is fire somewhere. It’s also good information about who the really devious s***s are in the Parly Party – which in fairness didn’t appear to include Ming.

]]> By: Laurence Boyce http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/06/20/deny-everything-baldrick/comment-page-1/#comment-65793 Laurence Boyce Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:10:47 +0000 http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/06/20/deny-everything-baldrick/#comment-65793 You're never boring James! You’re never boring James!

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