... judging by the sitemeter stats for this week (hits up by 400 per cent!) it would be more profitable to use the slogan "Everything that's hot about Max Gogarty"...
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That Max Gogarty thing has given me a chilling insight into what it must have been like to be part of a hate mob.
On Friday I was merrily chortling away at the internet villagers with their verbal pitchforks and flaming torches, getting all righteously indignant about nepotism and mediocre writing on hackneyed subjects.
Now I just feel a bit ashamed of the whole thing. Just because someone comes across as a bit of a tosser shouldn't mean they get assaulted by every lowly office drone in the country who feels they never got the chances they deserved.
And I have to say the guardian aren't helping by posting endless amounts of hand-wringing about it.
Ooh, I don't know. Every time I read something by, say, Amanda Platell, I think a baying mob is entirely in order. Only they never seem to go after anyone like that, do they?
I'm one of the team of hacks at Private Eye magazine, where I've worked on and off since 1997. I'm also an editorial lieutenant on Popbitch (not sure what it means: we made up the job titles in the pub). I've written for a number of other newspapers and magazines, been a co-presenter on LBC, a regular newspaper reviewer on Sky News and written a biography of the Victorian businessman and philanthropist William Lever. My first novel, Topped of the Pops, a comedy thriller, was to be published in May 2008, until the publishers went bust. From 1999-2002 I was deputy editor of The Big Issue.
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That Max Gogarty thing has given me a chilling insight into what it must have been like to be part of a hate mob.
On Friday I was merrily chortling away at the internet villagers with their verbal pitchforks and flaming torches, getting all righteously indignant about nepotism and mediocre writing on hackneyed subjects.
Now I just feel a bit ashamed of the whole thing. Just because someone comes across as a bit of a tosser shouldn't mean they get assaulted by every lowly office drone in the country who feels they never got the chances they deserved.
And I have to say the guardian aren't helping by posting endless amounts of hand-wringing about it.
Ooh, I don't know. Every time I read something by, say, Amanda Platell, I think a baying mob is entirely in order. Only they never seem to go after anyone like that, do they?
She's just a touch more scary than ickle Max though, isn't she?
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