agricola
a genuine importer of owls
FWIW there did definately appear to be at least some kind of bidding going on - I recall Guido trying to buy it, and there was this blogpost as well.
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FWIW there did definately appear to be at least some kind of bidding going on - I recall Guido trying to buy it, and there was this blogpost as well.
Treacle Toes
Time
In the recording I have posted RW is suggesting that they will find other positions for them, happily.
butchersapron
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More hawking than bidding.
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
Well someone paid for it, with at least one other person wanting to buy the CD.
butchersapron
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Sure. Doesn't mean the other papers were bidding and outbid as per the unevidenced above.
ericjarvis
give a feck for the feckless
Since the story involves the News of the World, the Metropolitan Police, and a Tory Prime Minister, I suspect that anything approaching the truth is completely inappropriate.
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
True, but then the only person who has mentioned that they all bid is you. LC only mentioned the NOTW and the Telegraph. In fact given what LCs initial post on this was, I really dont see the relevance of your argument.
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
Another litre of your finest White Lightening, Garçon!
butchersapron
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London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
I don't know why you care but I really don't. There is bigger, more apropos stuff at hand.
butchersapron
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I'm still waiting to see what relevance L-Cs post that the expenses CD was offered around has to do with my post that paper's don't always act exactly in line with your expectations has. The one that set this off.
ericjarvis
give a feck for the feckless
Hopefully the song being "Hit The Road Jack".
gavman
pj slumpy
not if you have anything to do with it. in fact you think we're 'the guilty'
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
Your point was The Guardian didn't break the expenses story and that says something negative about that paper. I pointed out how that particular game worked - because you obv. didn't understand it was not, at the outset, the product of investigative journalism. That's it.
You can't infer anything of The Guardian for not breaking that story. Fwiw, it may have been, but I've never seen anything to suggest it was even offered to that paper.
gavman
pj slumpy
try not to look stupid in front of everyone, same as life. you've failed
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
That's what you misread. I didn't mean or say any of this stuff you post. I wasn't linking the guardian to a failure to do fucking anything - to either buy or do the investigative journalism required to expose the expenses scandal. I was making an entirely different point altogether - one about posters expectations of papers and how that intersected and interacted with both journalists and publishers.
Always next time eh? And you've made clear there'll always be a next time.
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
*hark! Is that the sound of goalposts being picked up and dropped?*
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Yes. I think it is. Watch your back now old 'un.
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
butchers you spent at least three posts demanding LC provide evidence for the CD being hawked / offered / subject to bidding. To now claim this was about posters expectation of papers makes zero sense, or at least zero sense to me.
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
Taxi for the Trot!
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
On a serious point, I can't recall a big political story moving this fast. It's breathtaking.
gavman
pj slumpy
fake grassroots
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
It's quite simple. I made a post about people expectations of papers being confounded and used the Telegraph's expose of the expenses as an example.
London_calling misread this as an attack on the guardian as "The Guardian didn't break the expenses story and that says something negative about that paper" and linked that to buying the CDs or not. He pretty openly linked this to the guardian being able to buy the expenses CD if they wanted to. He totally misreads what i was arguing and why i arguing it.
Of course, asking him for evidence that the guardian had been involved in some bid war (as he apparently has the evidence that the NOTW was involved in) was a normal thing to do. No answer came, until the last few minutes admission that he has no evidence at all.
None of this crap need be here if he hadn't misread my first post then insist that his misreading was what i really meant. Pretty simple. Or if you took some time yourself.
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
I'd forgotten what hard work you are. Should I contact Carter Ruck?
Ftr, I'm bored with this. Back to todays meat and beer.
Ftr, I'm bored with this. Back to todays meat and beer.
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
He didnt. He corrected your post, pointing out that the "expenses scandal" was basically handed over to the relevant paper on a plate after it paid the mole some money. That is, after all, what happened.
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