Rod Liddle to become Indy editor

[SeanMacGabhann]

The catherine Bennett article?? It was twaddle, basically saying unless you are a columnist your opinion doesn't mean squat

but then again reading her usually gives me a headache

[????]

3/10 must try harder

[RosieH]

???? Wrote:

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> ...baiting Guardinitsas online by challemging

> orthodox liberal views...ain't so bad way to

> behave ;-).

>

> Good piece on this in yesterday's Observer (which

> I accidentally bought instead of the NOTW) which

> concluded the freedom of speech the middleclass

> parts of internet is 'free' as long as you tow the

> liberal line...if you don't as a journalist/public

> face they'll be massive twitter/facebook campaigns

> launched against you...

Haha, nice one Quids - you're quite right, it isn't a bad way to behave. That said, Liddle really is a tit and a half.

As for the Catherine Bennett article - she's very far from being the first person to say it, and am inclined to agree with her in regard to the need to toe the middle-class liberal line. However Sean's right - it does ring a little hollow when journalists claim that only their views count, and not the views of the unwashed masses (please don't stop reading me, please don't stop loving me)

When the right-wingers become as prevalent online as the bleeding hearts, that's when we'll get some interesting debate. But they're probably all too busy out ripping foxes to shreds with their slavering dogs to fritter away time on t'internet ;-)

[Roll Deep]

I'm still scratching my head as to why so many proponents of the Indie's 'liberal' stance in British media have avoided the fact that the broadsheet in question is owned by a former KGB agent.

As liberal as The Lubyanka, it would seem.

[????]

Rod Liddle 'explains'

[mockney piers]

Ooh. Being interviewed on five live as we speak. Denying getting the job by the sounds of things, though not actually saying as much.

He's used the 'g' word though and that's made me laugh.

[Brendan]

Because sometimes you just feel you have to kick a dead horse: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/feb/19/rod-liddle-independent-editor

[Brendan]

I liked this, "A national newspaper edited by an iconoclast determined to challenge the tyranny of the liberal metropolitan elite would have been a real addition to the national conversation, not least because Liddle's challenge would have come from the left."

[Jah Lush]

Well, that's a relief.

[SeanMacGabhann]

Dear god. That's possibly the worst article I have read in a long time. And I say that as someone who has had the misfortune to read tanya gold in the guardian

[????]

...I liked this bit.

The article's crap though many of these blog ones are

[????]

That's it bloody rain...I'm packing up my rod (geeedit) and going home. Bah.

[SeanMacGabhann]

That is one lonely slog to bump this thread to 100, quids....

[silverfox]

Yes, seems Liddle interest in this tread at the moment.