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By: PooterGeek » Blog Archive » HOW CAN PPL BE SO CRUEL TO BLOGGERS? :-(

PooterGeek » Blog Archive » HOW CAN PPL BE SO CRUEL TO BLOGGERS? :-( — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 13:43:23 +0000

[...] Justin of Chicken Yoghurt is wearyingly obtuse in the comments at Never Trust A Hippy. In response to this from Paulie: The prize for the most telling response to the Tim Toulmin /Alistair Campbell dialogue and call for a ‘blogger code of conduct’ surely goes to Chicken Yoghurt. His response is that the blogosphere…. “…hasnÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t yet orchestrated a propaganda offensive (in both senses of the word) that contributed to the deaths of 655,000 people. WhatÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s more offensive, a sweary blogger or a Deputy Prime Minister who canÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t keep his hands to himself?” [...]

By: apprentice

apprentice — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:54:46 +0000

Oh a voluntary code, a bit like the one the News of the World follows?

Just not sure I’d have the thousands to lob at charity of choice after I’d chosen to ignore it.

Sorry if that’s nasty.

By: A voluntary code « Not Saussure

A voluntary code « Not Saussure — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:15:01 +0000

[...] Longrider is excellent on the subject, as is Chicken Yoghurt, who is particularly scathing about the ironies inherent in Former Downing Street spin doctor Alastair Campbell’s view that blogs were “perceived as a positive development” but “some of the most offensive stuff” comes from them. [...]

By: Friendly Fire

Friendly Fire — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:44:47 +0000

Alistair Campbell, who took “one for the team” in the Butler inquiry still hasn’t gone away, you know. He knows where many nulab’s bodies are buried.

Watch this space.

By: james higham

james higham — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:02:11 +0000

You’ll be one of the first up against the wall, young man!

By: Gracchi

Gracchi — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:25:45 +0000

I like the idea that we are all doing the same thing- if I had half the contacts of Guido or the influence of Iain Dale not to mention the economic knowledge of Chris Dillow I’d be a proud man. Some blogs its true can be quite vicious but then again so can parts of the press- and anyway I don’t suppose that Polly Toynbee reads Devil’s Kitchen or Mr Eugenides. Some blogs like Dave Hill’s for instance aren’t vicious. I wouldn’t have thought there is anything much worse than the Sun out there for distortions and innaccuracies- language may be a different matter.

I suspect there is actually more libel problesm from a website like popbitch which moves rumours round the net- I suspect but don’t know. And I’d have thought the celebrity gossip websites are far more vulnerable than your humble political blogger who is most of the time just expressing an opinion.

Just a thought but what’s the status of a comment on a blog- if someone puts it there and says something libellous, if I don’t remove it have I published it and am I an accessory to libel.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:41:23 +0000

Damn, I only saw the old pigfucker in the street in Gospel Oak the other day. I was in a car and we were travelling at good speed, so I didn’t spit in his eye.

BTW, I quite like the idea of a millicampbell. Supposedly, a millihelen is the standard unit of beauty on the basis that Helen of Troy was enough to launch a thousand ships, so one ship=millihelen, and one millicampbell is enough mendacity to drive one-thousandth of a scientist to suicide.

By: ziz

ziz — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 12:52:54 +0000

7 Mn bloggers ? that’s one in 10(ish) of the population!Sounds a dodgy figure.

Remember Blur’s Terrorism a 12 step program last August 5th…
“One other point on deportations. Once the new grounds take effect, there will be a list drawn up of specific extremist websites, bookshops, centres, networks and particular organisations of concern. Active engagement with any of these will be a trigger for the Home Secretary to consider the deportation of any foreign national.”

Matthew Taylor’s remarks should be taken as a wake up call…. legislation to control bloggers probably in the works – most likely in lock step with the US authorities.