Comments on: The froth has started http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/08/07/the-froth-has-started/ crass, boorish and more a bruiser than blogger Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:21:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: James Graham http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/08/07/the-froth-has-started/#comment-79805 James Graham Tue, 07 Aug 2007 13:38:00 +0000 http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/08/07/the-froth-has-started/#comment-79805 Anon: thanks for the heads up on <a href="http://www.newssniffer.co.uk/articles/list_by_revision" rel="nofollow">Revisionista</a>. Looks like a good site, although it is a shame they're wearing their own biases on their sleeves. Why target the Guardian and Independent, but not the Times or the Telegraph for instance? Certainly the Times' news values have been plummeting in recent months. Anon: thanks for the heads up on Revisionista. Looks like a good site, although it is a shame they’re wearing their own biases on their sleeves. Why target the Guardian and Independent, but not the Times or the Telegraph for instance? Certainly the Times’ news values have been plummeting in recent months.

]]> By: Peter McGrath http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/08/07/the-froth-has-started/#comment-79799 Peter McGrath Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:39:02 +0000 http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/08/07/the-froth-has-started/#comment-79799 Reading Iain Dale's efforts to stop the Tory decline by sheer force of his blogging stomach muscles has been quite touching. They shouldn't let him leave the country again. He goes to Rwanda, the wheels fall off. We, on the other hand, should buy him a ticket for an extended round the world cruise. As for the BBC, their newsdesks will now be peopled by journalists who have professionally grown up in the era of stories coming to them by press-release rather than having good contacts and spending a lot of time on the phone or getting pissed with people and finding stories. That kind of journalism is cheaper and easier. Reading Iain Dale’s efforts to stop the Tory decline by sheer force of his blogging stomach muscles has been quite touching. They shouldn’t let him leave the country again. He goes to Rwanda, the wheels fall off. We, on the other hand, should buy him a ticket for an extended round the world cruise.

As for the BBC, their newsdesks will now be peopled by journalists who have professionally grown up in the era of stories coming to them by press-release rather than having good contacts and spending a lot of time on the phone or getting pissed with people and finding stories. That kind of journalism is cheaper and easier.

]]> By: Anon http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/08/07/the-froth-has-started/#comment-79797 Anon Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:32:04 +0000 http://www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog/2007/08/07/the-froth-has-started/#comment-79797 "soon as they get stick for it they simply airbrush their original crime out of history." Try a google search for 'News Sniffer' or 'Revisionista' - a site which monitors the changing BBC stealth edits. “soon as they get stick for it they simply airbrush their original crime out of history.”

Try a google search for ‘News Sniffer’ or ‘Revisionista’ - a site which monitors the changing BBC stealth edits.

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