I suppose it would just spoil the poor man's joke if I responded to this on my blog, wouldn't it.
Ah well. I'll leave it then...
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- Adam Macqueen
- 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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I thought the piece on Guido in this week's Eye was pretty unfair and smelt more than a little of jealousy...
You mean the piece that opened by congratulating him on getting such a good scoop?
hmm, through gritted teeth I thought. The rest of the piece was unfairly negative I thought.
Well, the whole piece wasn't my work, but that opening was, and it was entirely sincere. I'll happily 'fess up to being envious of his scoop - show me a single journalist that isn't - but I don't see why it should render him, or his newspaper partners in the story, immune from criticism. The Daily Mail's got some pretty spectacular scoops in its time too, but I've written plenty of 'negative' stories about them. Or are we meant to apply different rules to bloggers from the rest of the media?
I have no problem with being critical of bloggers (most of them deserve a lot more criticism than they get), but your piece really did come across as "sour grapes".
Whether it was intentional or not.
However, I shall be renewing my subscription, more power to your organ, etc., etc.
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