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By: Owen’s musings » Blog Archive » Guido Fawkes does not know what a sock puppet is

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 11:37:05 +0000

[...] If you want to see more of Mr Staines so that you can reach your own views about his character and judgement, take a look at this recent discussion on Newsnight.Ã‚Â (Thanks Justin.) [...]

By: Lookalikes: Guido Fawkes and Zorro

Lookalikes: Guido Fawkes and Zorro — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 03:34:30 +0000

[...] people have the story in more detail: Sunny (good summary), Chicken Yoghurt (YouTube of the Newsnight Reports), and Tim at Bloggerheads (”doctored” version) have [...]

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:25:50 +0000

“You’re not worth suing, unlike Private Eye.” I think that must be the best quote Michael White’s come out with for a long time.

By: Pickled Politics » Guido gets Fawked

Pickled Politics » Guido gets Fawked — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 18:18:56 +0000

[...] scenes. Paxo was moderating of course. You can watch the short film and subsequent discussion from Chicken Yoghurt (from where I nicked the [...]

By: Osama Saeed

Osama Saeed — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 18:08:03 +0000

Some people can only type on the internet, and aren’t good at broadcasting. Most recognise their own limitations.

By: Larry Teabag

Larry Teabag — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:50:19 +0000

Oh boy.

Guido went on there in order to level accusations at the MSM – but he was on the defensive from start to finish.

And he really can’t blame White or Paxman or anyone else. He was asked a fair question: what stories have you ever broken; and his response was to lie, followed by furious backpedalling when called on it, and finishing off by ratting on his sources. You can’t coach that.

He can’t even complain that White called him by his proper name (which might otherwise be a low shot), because he’d just boasted that White wouldn’t be able to recognise him if they had lunch in future.

And having the whole thing in the dark as if he’s MI6 or something – just beautiful.

It must be crushing for such a rampant egotist to give such a poor account of himself.

By: Katherine

Katherine — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:41:44 +0000

Heh, Paxo really does think that Guido is pathetic. I didn’t even watch everything and I heard that twice.

On the other hand, it did end up sounding a bit like the “normal” journalists ganging up on the new kid. I can’t say that Paxo was being particularly evenhanded in that debate.

Also, could anyone explain what that stuff about evenhandedness was all about and why Guido has a problem with it? It seemed utterly unrelated to what he was talking about – journos being cosy with the politicians – and entirely about wanting the BBC to be, what, not evenhanded? I caught something about having to be evenhanded but not having to do that yourself. What?

Forgive me if I’m being a bit dumb, but it rather sounded like an argument for party political TV – a la Fox.

By: Oh dear, oh dear... « Not Saussure

Oh dear, oh dear... « Not Saussure — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:33:10 +0000

[...] Filed under: Uncategorized — notsaussure @ 2:33 pm Courtesy of Justin at Chicken Yoghurt. One can quite see why Paul Staines wishes to remain [...]

By: steve

steve — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:35:33 +0000

Once again, blogging takes a shot in the arse. Why are self-appointed exemplars in any field invariably its worst exponents?

Maybe because they normally start with good intentions but once the lure of infamy comes running, they decide that the only way to keep at the top of the pile, a pile which of course is only in thier and their sidekicks heads,is to be more and more outrageous.

If they had any nous, they would stick to writing about things that matter, rather than thinking that by trying to subvert the MSM, they are somehow “hip”

They are in essence no better than those they sully. They become the elite and detached from the man in the street. They feel they have to wok alongside politaical party lines rather than thinking for themselves.

Sad really.