Category Archives: Bloggers

What kind of person buys the Daily Star?

March 10, 2011 – 10:18 pm

Tweet I tweeted the other day that anyone who reads the Daily Star must have the intelligence of a slug. I received quite a few responses, the majority informing me that I was being offensive to slugs, but one person who wanted to point out that his dad was an intelligent chap and read the [...]

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The best thing about 2010

December 30, 2010 – 11:13 am

Tweet Five Chinese Crackers did a wonderful review of Richard Littlejohn’s ‘novel’ To Hell in a Handcart, and it really was one of the best things I have read all year. It demonstrates that not only is Richard Littlejohn a supremely untalented writer, but that he also has a huge range of really serious issues [...]

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An irritable response to a blogger

December 15, 2010 – 11:16 pm

Tweet I was minding my own business this afternoon when I was tweeted by someone who had suggested that ‘you should put a point of view not say the opposition make stuff up‘ and it linked to their blogpost discussing my recent post on the latest Daily Mail attack on immigrants. Basically, the writer of [...]

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Some poorly-constructed thoughts on blogging and journalism

October 26, 2010 – 9:59 am

Tweet Those of you who follow me on Twitter might have realised that I was invited down to Bristol on Friday night to sit on the secondary panel of an event titled ‘What’s the blogging story?’ which was designed to be a debate on the relationship between bloggers and the media. The debate itself was [...]

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Momentum

July 18, 2010 – 6:33 pm

Tweet There have been some good talks recently instigated by Tim Ireland over at Bloggerheads at revitalising some old websites and creating some new ones to better promote the work done by those who blog about the media. In particular it has the aim of having a website for each major tabloid newspaper that will [...]

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