Urban v's the Commentariat

[rekil]

I think this may be peak post-hipster/intersectional irony Tumblr time:

http://mentakingup2muchspaceonthetrain.tumblr.com/

It'll have to go head to head with Melissa Gira Grant describing an org (involving kidnapping survivor Elizabeth Smart) that tries to rescue kids from sex trafficking as "peak saviour, never underestimate white people". Hands off the kiddy trafficking trade!

 

[DaveCinzano]

It'll have to go head to head with Melissa Gira Grant describing an org (involving kidnapping survivor Elizabeth Smart) that tries to rescue kids from sex trafficking as "peak saviour, never underestimate white people". Hands off the kiddy trafficking trade!

End the nonceplaining!

 

[equationgirl]

I think this may be peak post-hipster/intersectional irony Tumblr time:

http://mentakingup2muchspaceonthetrain.tumblr.com/

Some of the pictures are interesting though - there are obviously loads of squashed people.

 

[equationgirl]

It'll have to go head to head with Melissa Gira Grant describing an org (involving kidnapping survivor Elizabeth Smart) that tries to rescue kids from sex trafficking as "peak saviour, never underestimate white people". Hands off the kiddy trafficking trade!

I think Elizabeth's outlook is pretty amazing considering what she went through.

 

[Favelado]

I saw Owen Jones mentioned in El Pais today. World domination is happening.

 

[Balbi]

#GLOBALPAYBACK2015

 

[J Ed]

#Gobacktooxfordseñorjones

 

[rekil]

Looking forward to an OJ article about the need for a UK Podemos, "but one that supports the Labour left and our historic links to trade unions up and down the country".

Molly Crabapple's response to that blogpost was to slap the author's real name up on the twitter machine.

 

[J Ed]

Molly Crabapple's response to that blogpost was to slap the author's real name up on the twitter machine.

Hell hath no fury like a scorned neoliberal imperialist cheerleading shit puppet millionaire

 

[butchersapron]

She truly is the Richard Branson of the neo-liberal age.

 

[goldenecitrone]

#Gobacktooxfordseñorjones

#Vuelvaaoxfordseñorjoneshijodeputa!

 

[J Ed]

Es amigo de nuestro propio PPSOE, de verdad

 

[Theisticle]

Looking forward to an OJ article about the need for a UK Podemos, "but one that supports the Labour left and our historic links to trade unions up and down the country".

Molly Crabapple's response to that blogpost was to slap the author's real name up on the twitter machine.

Shit.



LOL, does she not know how the block button works?

 

[The Pale King]

She doesn't have to respond because it's 'harassment'. 'Neoliberalism at fever pitch' was spot on.

 

[J Ed]

Just look at her timeline, this is how she distorts criticism

She turns articles like the one above into





Is this sort of behaviour learnt or actively being taught?

 

[The Pale King]

Presumably they 'enable those who do so' by criticising her. So just don't criticise her at all and everything will be alright!

 

[brogdale]

Mebbe the heat's getting to me...but this seems to be a good piece by La Penny....

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/07/westminster-child-abuse-inquiry-corruption-heart-state

Have I done wrong here?

 

[Theisticle]

They aren't actively calling for *her* to be hanged, more insinuating that imperialist propaganda got people hung. Christ.

 

[rekil]

Mebbe the heat's getting to me...but this seems to be a good piece by La Penny....

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/07/westminster-child-abuse-inquiry-corruption-heart-state

Have I done wrong here?

It's another by the numbers rehash of the 100s of opinion pieces already out there and adds nothing, except the promotion of the LP brand. Note the ad for the shindig at the bottom of the piece.

 

[J Ed]

It's another by the numbers rehash of the 100s of opinion pieces already out there and adds nothing, except the promotion of the LP brand.

Yeah, there is nothing wrong with it but that's because it's a re-writing of the work and research of others who have genuinely put their necks on the line for the story.

 

[Theisticle]

I do sympathise with the genuine and utterly disgusting misogyny, death/rape threats, they receive, but the way Crabapple openly distorts that above example for brand building is really unpleasant.

 

[The Pale King]

Yeah, there is nothing wrong with it but that's because it's a re-writing of the work and research of others who have genuinely put their necks on the line for the story.

Yeah, not even a hat-tip to those reporters. A cut'n'paste job.

 

[J Ed]

I do sympathise with the genuine and utterly disgusting misogyny, death/rape threats, they receive, but the way Crabapple openly distorts that above example for brand building is really unpleasant.

The thing is that she trivialises that sort of disgusting behaviour by conflating it with people suggesting that if she were alive in another time she could be have been held to account for her promotion of right-wing terrorism.

 

[brogdale]

Yeah, not even a hat-tip to those reporters. A cut'n'paste job.

So...yeah, I did do wrong. Instead of calling it 'good', I should properly have said that la Penny had produced a derivative re-hash, 'cut'n'paste' that didn't have much wrong with it.

But by her standards....?

But FWIW, any MSM copy that promotes readers to question the complicit actions of the 'deep state' has to have some merit.

 

[Theisticle]

I've never understood how Penny fails to put any links her articles. Not hard.

 

[The Pale King]

So...yeah, I did do wrong. Instead of calling it 'good', I should properly have said that la Penny had produced a derivative re-hash, 'cut'n'paste' that didn't have much wrong with it.

But by her standards....?

But FWIW, any MSM copy that promotes readers to question the complicit actions of the 'deep state' has to have some merit.

No harm to you Broggers!

By her standards it's Pulitzer - worthy!

 

[Favelado]

Now that all that information is out there it's not difficult to make a sensible summary of it. Here, David Icke does what Laurie does in her article, with only a little added in way of clumsy metaphor and extra accusation. I post this not as a supporter of the turquoise tracksuit fan, but to illustrate the point that she's hardly doing great work here.




10 quid if you make it to the end of the vid. PM me with your Paypal details.

 

[Theisticle]

It must be to fun to be paid to write articles after the best and original analysis is already written. Hoover journalism.

 

[brogdale]

It must be to fun to be paid to write articles after the best and original analysis is already written. Hoover journalism.

Not wishing to extend my (limited) defence of La Penny, but have you read the NS recently? She ain't alone in 'hoovering' for a living. Compared to something like the LRB, the NS looks like the fucking Beano these days.

 

[rekil]

Classic bit of Oxplaining from BBC journo Julia MacFarlane (variety of elite international private schools etc).