Alex Callinicos/SWP vs Laurie Penny/New Statesman Facebook handbags

[chilango]

OK, let me rephrase - 58 pages suggests some posters here are giving her the kind of attention she craves

Who's benefitting most from this exchange?

 

[butchersapron]

OK, let me rephrase - 58 pages suggests some posters here are giving her the kind of attention she craves

She don't crave this.

 

[smokedout]

Who's benefitting most from this exchange?

The Indy?

 

[chilango]

You reckon?

 

[smokedout]

well its not likely to the doing their cpm revenue any harm

no reason to stop though

 

[butchersapron]

well its not likely to the doing their cpm revenue any harm

no reason to stop though

The one going down month on month?

 

[chilango]

well its not likely to the doing their cpm revenue any harm

no reason to stop though

Dunno about anyone else, but I've not been visiting their site.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

The Indy?

Nah they have a billionaire owner who clearly pays any old writer 100k or more a year, they're rolling in it!

 

[butchersapron]

Nah they have a billionaire owner who clearly pays any old writer 100k or more a year, they're rolling in it!

As ever, wait. I'm right.

 

[DaveCinzano]

A shame they can't spend some of that Moscow Gold to fix their bloody website so it displays properly

 

[smokedout]

Dunno about anyone else, but I've not been visiting their site.

I have, because of this thread. It's shit though, hasn't made me want to go back.

 

[articul8]

58 pages of taking the piss. If she craves that, then she's more of a head banger than I first thought.

It's attention - all publicity is good publicity.

 

[smokedout]

nah I don't agree with that, it's not doing her any good at all - she wants to be a 'serious' journalist and she's a laughing stock

 

[chilango]

It's attention - all publicity is good publicity.

No it's not.

 

[articul8]

she's a name. Hostility, piss-takes, derision, whatever - it all fuels that. She's grateful....

 

[butchersapron]

she's a name. Hostility, piss-takes, derision, whatever - it all fuels that. She's grateful....

Everything is everything. There's no way out of you being right is there.

 

[articul8]

I didn't predict Chelsea would win the champions league

 

[smokedout]

she's a name. Hostility, piss-takes, derision, whatever - it all fuels that. She's grateful....

tell that to gary glitter

 

[articul8]

would you be talking about Paul Gadd otherwise?

 

[butchersapron]

would you be talking about Paul Gadd otherwise?

Wow

 

[smokedout]

not much else to be said

 

[smokedout]

so when you said 'all publicity is good publicity.' you actually meant 'all publicity is publicity'

dont think anyone would argue with that

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

would you be talking about Paul Gadd otherwise?

bonkers bruno

 

[chilango]

would you be talking about Paul Gadd otherwise?

Er.....

 

[DaveCinzano]

In the words of Dick Dietrick, people, people, come on.

 

[bluestreak]

She don't crave this.

She don't even know we exist, let alone give a monkeys about what we say about her. I'd like t use this as an example of her critical analysis failure, but...

 

[Nylock]

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That is brilliant!

 

[Riklet]

Laurie follows Proletarian Democracy on twitter

 

[phildwyer]

Bizarre misreading of and shit response to Gove's wet nonsense from the other day.

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinio...on-but-im-still-not-on-your-team-7737823.html

I'm surprised she didn't list her exam grades. And I bet that teacher took the form of a burning shrubbery.

"The idea that nobody can really be a socialist if they were lucky enough to go to a private school is wilful stupidity."

It's the unthinking assumption that going to a private school is "lucky" that gets me. The automatic presupposition that it's "lucky" to grow up surrounded exclusively by rich people. That's what prevents her from being a socialist.

 

[articul8]

would you be talking about Paul Gadd otherwise?

After due reflection and cogitation...I was talking total bollocks here Point about Laurie still stands..