Johann Hari admits copying and pasting interview quotes

[butchersapron]

How many right wing ones are well. The Anne leslie skulling it on TV early on the day patting him on the head.

 

[lazyhack]

Has been interesting to see the Hari affair reveal on blogs and twitter how many 'leading' writers and liberal activists are friends with each other.

Same in any industry, you work with people one place then bump into them another, drink together after work, etc. It is a bit cosy and smug at the top though, I imagine.

 

[eoin_k]

The statement by Council of the Orwell Prize is quite entertainingly worded:

After extensive deliberation, the Council arrived at a clear and unanimous decision, which drew from the combined journalistic and academic expertise of its members...
The Independent has now requested that the Council consider further representations by Johann Hari before announcing the decision. However, it would appear that Johann Hari is not permitted to make any further representations whilst The Independent’s investigation is conducted.
In these circumstances, the Council of the Orwell Prize has reluctantly consented to delay any formal announcement as to the status of the 2008 Orwell Prize for Journalism until The Independent has completed its own investigation. We will take no further action and make no further statements until that time.

They haven't felt the need to make it difficult to read between the lines... Unless Johann was planning to appeal their decision not to strip him of the prize. I wonder if he will be expected to give the money back.

 

[sihhi]

He hasn't exactly hidden how much he likes/socialises with other journalists/ MPs

Politicians

Just had a really interesting & v heated argument about religion with Ann Widdecombe for a documentary coming out in Easter... I like her

Other right-wingers I can't stand politically but like to talk to & as people: Peter Hitchens, Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage...[/B]
Oh some more: Michael Gove, David Starkey, @frasernels - Fraser Nelson

One of the cleverest people I know is Michael Gove, who I disagree with on almost everything

Rory Stewart once said one of the strangest & creepiest things anybody has ever said to me. Better not divulge it on Twitter though...

@marycreagh_mp His owl bolognaise was DISGUSTING. Everything we ate in Congo was MUCH nicer xx

Journos, literati, luvvies, businessperson

@caitlinmoran Your party was a thing of glorious awesomeness xx
@caitlinmoran I demand you and @gracedent go on Question Time and RE-ENACT Two Girls One Cup

@GeorgeMonbiot We MUST lure Peter Wilby onto Twitter - he'd love it...

@sueperkins Are you coming to the Stonewall party this Friday? xx

Really interesting talk on situation in Pakistan by my friend @fbhutto here: http://www.themonthly.com.au/video - Benazir's niece

Hooooray! My friend @DeborahJaneOrr - the brilliant Guardian columnist (formerly of the Indie) - has jointed Twitter! Give her Tweet-love...
My friend Deborah Orr is getting treatment for breast cancer, and is writing thru it. We all make errors at best of times. Give her a break (being pulled up over sloppy journism)

My friend @jamiekilstein did an AWESOME set on the Conan O'Brien Show: http://bit.ly/dQ7SMd

BeetleCarDriver : @johannhari101 What exactly is @jemima_khan brilliant at? Love to know...
@johannhari101: Did you read the issue of the New Statesman she edited? it was superb

Yaaaaay! The brilliant @Jemima_Khan has joined the Independent as an Associate Editor. Woop-woop!

Damian_Barr @johannhari101 which reminds me of that man we talked about over breakfast w Eric whose name escapes me...remind me?

Gutted to hear my friend Clive James has cancer. You HAVE to read his masterpiece Cultural Amnesia: http://tinyurl.com/3g358e9

Woop-woop! My friend Liz Lochhead has been named National Poet of Scotland, and @pollytoynbee just joined Twitter! #happydays

@johannhari101 You know if you read your articles whilst imagining Adam Curtis reading them out they are even more brilliant
@johannhari101: Johann Hari @jarowdowsky Hah! I know Adam Curtis and once asked him to read out a paragraph. I SCREAMED with joy!

#ff @indiaknight and @lynnbaba - two of my favourite journalists, who I'm sharing a house with in Hay for the book festival. Woop-woop! - Lynn Barber
@indiaknight No rush! I don't need it for the next fortnight, and may see you before then xx

@sarahchurchwell Happy birthday lovely Sarah!

PaulLewis :Looking forward to @vincecable Vs @williamnhutton during the @howlightgetsin debate http://bit.ly/I0jSk Anyone going?
@PaulLewis Ooooh I am - shall we have a drink beforehand?

The attempted rape described by my friend Tanya Gold here happened in my flat: http://t.co/zRVIECj

My friend @ianbirrell- former deputy editor of Indie - is having a Twitter row with Rwandan President @paulkagame as we speak.

@johannhari101 will you speak to me on @lbc973 after 10am UK time and tell me US reaction in NYC? I'm on till 2pm.
@IainDale Oh shit - just got this - sorry Ian x

@harikunzru Have DMed you x

@VictoriaPeckham You called? xx - Janice Turner

Happy birthday to @JosieLong - one of the funniest and loveliest people in Britain x

@laurenlaverne All hail Queen Lauren xx

@Marthalanefox Thanks Martha! SCREAM! Very excited to hear from you x

@IrshadManji You were BRILLIANT on Bill Maher. - See this piece http://johannhari.com/2005/05/28/islam-s-marked-woman-irshad-manji/



UNINTENDED IRONY:

@johannhari101 www.no2av-yes2pr.org are using your image to support voting no to AV. Doesn't that contradict your "vote yes" Indie piece?
johannhari101: @copydex I asked them not to do it. It's shockingly dishonest of them.

 

[lazyhack]

The best name-drop was the day the blogpost exposing hari started really going viral; he pretended at first it wasn't happening and kept tweeting at friends about how he had tried to get Stewart Lee onto twitter. No doubt knowing his stream was being watched by many and hoping mentioning the coolest liberal type in London would get him off the hook. Turns out Stewart Lee hates plagiarism - http://www.stewartlee.co.uk/plagiarists.htm

At one point Steven Fry posted a half-arsed defence of Hari, knowing how hari has been using Hundal as a proxy through all of this I wouldn't be surprised if he was calling in favours from big name friends. Some of them didn't try very hard defending him beyond their initial statements.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Quick question. Am I right in thinking Hari never trained as a journalist but was just plucked from the blogosphere?

 

[lazyhack]

Quick question. Am I right in thinking Hari never trained as a journalist but was just plucked from the blogosphere?

Its stranger than that. As I understand it he never trained as a journalist, got the boot from the New Statesman in 2001/02? Had a handful of pieces in the Guardian and then got taken under Kelner's suspiciously uncritical wing for the guts of ten years. His big thing around 2003 was being the lying scumbag left liberal pro-war hack, inventing quotes from Iraqis asking to be bombed to shit.

 

[butchersapron]

More in this weeks private eye apparently. (Can't give hat tip without outing person though).

 

[butchersapron]

Why does hari have the courage to break cover? When does the independent whitewash report back?

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Might try and get an invite to that, could be fun

 

[DaveCinzano]

Laurie Penny's going too

 

[Edie]

Jesus he sounds like a fuckin PRICK from them twitter quotes. He's also mates with Caitlin Moran so enough said.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Laurie Penny's going too

All the more reason to go then!

 

[butchersapron]

She's got an exclusive interview with johhny pissmop as well.

 

[Captain Hurrah]

He's also mates with Caitlin Moran so enough said.

She's awful isn't she.

 

[Edie]

She's awful isn't she.

Mate by the time I finished reading that book I couldn't look at her on the cover I wanted to punch her face in so bad. SCREAM! Urgh what a bitch. Chapter 9 was the final fuckin straw, when she went to watch lapdancers with her smug fuckin friend as said that girls who dance should be told to get down off the "podium" and get with the sisterhood. (burlesques fine, natch, cos its fucking middle class). I posted a rant on her 'let's discuss feminism' page of her website, in which I bearly swore (told her to fuck off ONCE!), and it was moderated off.

So yer, I dislike her. And her nobby, made-up-stories, simpering fuckin TWATS of mates. Caitlin Moran.

 

[Captain Hurrah]

Her middle class mates wrote the glowing reviews of her crap book.

 

[butchersapron]

edie - you realise that yeah is spelt yeah, not yer don't you?

 

[killer b]

Her middle class mates wrote the glowing reviews of her crap book.

i just read a hilarious review of it in the guardian (where else?). jesus... some people i know enjoyed it too. they're off the christmas card list...

 

[Edie]

edie - you realise that yeah is spelt yeah, not yer don't you?

I say it yer.

 

[butchersapron]

She was the voice of working class women 20 years ago when she liked slowdive. These people just want to be journos don't they?

 

[butchersapron]

I say it yer.

Well a) you're wrong to do so and b) it doesn't meant that you should spell it like that.

 

[butchersapron]

Is that the only word that you write as you speak? If so why have you chosen that one?

 

[Edie]

Wtf who gives a toss how I spell it? Weirdo.

 

[butchersapron]

Fook
burnage
burriee

 

[Orang Utan]

i followed moran briefly on the twitters, but she was so self-regarding, even for a twitter user, that she had to go.

 

[killer b]

back to hari, why the fuck would anyone invite him to speak at their conference on 'rebellious media'? it doesn't really make them look good does it?

 

[killer b]

ladies & gentlemen, please welcome the keynote speaker to this year's help the aged conference on radical solutions to the problems facing the elderly in modern britain - dr harold shipman!

 

[butchersapron]

I suspect the independent are whitewashing, so it's safe to...these people talk to each other...oddly enough, one of the the people that Hari lied about is also on the bill.

 

[killer b]

I suspect the independent are whitewashing, so it's safe to...these people talk to each other...oddly enough, one of the the people that Hari lied about is also on the bill.

noam? he's a bit grumpy about it too isn't he... any chance of a slap-down?