Johann Hari admits copying and pasting interview quotes

[TruXta]

He ought to lose his job in the Indy, that much is clear.

 

[krtek a houby]

He ought to lose his job in the Indy, that much is clear.

That's reasonable. And his employers should be asking themselves a few questions, as well.

 

[TruXta]

That's reasonable. And his employers should be asking themselves a few questions, as well.

And when he doesn't lose his job after all, then what? A "witch-hunt"?

 

[redsquirrel]

There aren't far worse anyway. It's been a call since the first pages to produce these far worse, not a single example has been put forward.

It's amazing that there's still some fools that aren't willing to hear a word against Hari. The Negri article in the OP is every bit as full of smears as anything you'll find.

 

[eoin_k]

And when he doesn't lose his job after all, then what? A "witch-hunt"?

How many witch hunts are going to be alleged on this thread? Hari smears people with no regard for the truth and the people who point this out are the witch hunters.

At this rate our 'witch hunt' is in danger of turning into a martyrdom cult with Johann cast as Jesus.

 

[butchersapron]

At this rate Johann is Jesus.

/hari

 

[Mrs Magpie]

What punishment would be suitable for JH, in your opinion?

Only ever allowed to ghost-write for minor celebs.

 

[eoin_k]

You've lost me:
Johann = Jesus/Hari
Is this some sort of interfaith mathematical axiom?

 

[rekil]

You've lost me:
Johann = Jesus/Hari
Is this some sort of interfaith mathematical axiom?

He merely sexed up your quote in true Hari fashion.

 

[Refused as fuck]

And when he doesn't lose his job after all, then what? A "witch-hunt"?

It's a witch. burn it at the stake.

 

[rekil]

What punishment would be suitable for JH, in your opinion?

Libdem speechwriter. Forever.

 

[sihhi]

I actually enjoyed some of his columns on the rare occasion that I read the Indy.

Like this quote "When I hear people ranting about chavs, I want to lock them on a council estate with £100 a week and three kids" (see how easy it is to quote, Johann?) from this article suggests his heart is in the right place. Which was quickly negated by his bizarre support of the Iraq war.

But that article you quote from is full of exaggeration to say the least.

As for homophobia, who is the latest chav icon - the Queen of the council estates - but Nadia Alamada, Big Brother's transsexual winner?

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinio...ari/who-are-you-to-laugh-at-chavs-532046.html

There's so much ludicrous untruths it's unreal:

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinio...wo-sides-of-islam-go-head-to-head-852358.html

Apparently

The 9/11 hijackers went to a strip-bar and got drunk before staging their cry for the construction of a Caliphate that would kill them for doing just that.

Also the people who wrote down the Quran synthesising several separate written sources were illiterate.

Alex believes that Islam offers Absolute Judgements, immutably cast in stone in the Koran. These are (of course) hellishly patriarchal, since they were formulated by illiterate desert merchants in the seventh century AD.

 

[rollinder]

Billy cunting Bragg has joined the fucking chearleaders over on facebook

Billy Bragg
Getting a bit fed up with the voices lining up to kick poor old Johann Hari. Okay, he did bend the journalistic rules and alter some entries on Wikipedia, but all he has done, ultimately, is made a fool of himself. Unlike the News of the World phone hackers, he hasn't broken the law.

We were so right about Hari, say bullshit merchants
www.thedailymash.co.uk

 

[killer b]

you care what some lib dem cunt thinks?

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

hari; hari, hari
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hari; hari, hari

 

[TruXta]

How many witch hunts are going to be alleged on this thread? Hari smears people with no regard for the truth and the people who point this out are the witch hunters.

At this rate our 'witch hunt' is in danger of turning into a martyrdom cult with Johann cast as Jesus.

I was exactly not alleging a witch-hunt. I think Hari deserves not to be a journo anymore. But then I think that about many journalists.

 

[eoin_k]

I was exactly not alleging a witch-hunt. I think Hari deserves not to be a journo anymore. But then I think that about many journalists.

Aye, I realised that after posting.

 

[TruXta]

Aye, I realised that after posting.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Has anybody posted up this ridiculous hatchet job up yet? It could hardly be more inaccurate if he tried:

http://www.newstatesman.com/film/2007/04/slavoj-zizek-intellectual

 

[Idris2002]

Has anybody posted up this ridiculous hatchet job up yet? It could hardly be more inaccurate if he tried:

http://www.newstatesman.com/film/2007/04/slavoj-zizek-intellectual

At some level, Zizek knows this is preposterous; he lived under Soviet tyranny, and even joined the opposition.

Sadly, no.

 

[Idris2002]

hari; hari, hari
krishna hari, hari, hari
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krishna hari, hari, hari
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krishna hari, hari, hari
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He plagiarised for our sins.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

What have you got against comrade Tito?

 

[Idris2002]

My mum used to dress up as Marshal Tito as a kid.

She now claims that any photographs of these incidents were later lost. . .

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Revisionist...

 

[Citizen66]

But that article you quote from is full of exaggeration to say the least.

I'm not defending him or his exaggerations and untruths. But that article suggests he isn't as virulently anti-working class as the rest of the mainstream media's commentators which is why I enjoyed it.

 

[sihhi]

I'm not defending him. But that article suggests he isn't as virulently anti-working class as the rest of the mainstream media which is why I enjoyed it.

Any enjoyment for me is ruined by his completely anti-working class approach to his work as a defender of the working-class in print.


That Zizek piece has his usual hodge podge of quotes and written word misquoted:

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=...ook_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA

Zizek gets the year right 1953, Hari misquotes him as 1956 - perhaps trying to link Brecht and Zizek to the repression of Hungary.

 

[lazyhack]

He calls Lacan 'incomprehensible' twice, as if Hari's failure to understand someone's ideas is in itself a critique. He has a double first from Cambridge, I'd love to see some of the work he submitted.

 

[lazyhack]

I'm not defending him or his exaggerations and untruths. But that article suggests he isn't as virulently anti-working class as the rest of the mainstream media's commentators which is why I enjoyed it.

He lives in a big house in Hampstead. His interest are not the interests of the working class.

 

[gosub]

going on his wikipedia adventures, his interests are Johann Hari

 

[Citizen66]

He lives in a big house in Hampstead. His interest are not the interests of the working class.

Lolz

How many mainstream media pundits don't live in big posh houses? I didn't say he was working class or that his interests lie there. have another read.