Urban v's the Commentariat

[Bakunin]

Before forgetting, this is absolutely priceless:

"Do you know who I am..?"

Yes, Penny Dreadful, we do. You build your 'ethical brand' by running stories about benefit claimants threatening suicide even when professionals have expressly advised you not to run the story in question.

A most apposite demonstration of your idea of press ethics, as far as I can see.

 

[Theisticle]

 

[weepiper]

I suppose it's no surprise they're the way they are when they surround themselves with such craven sycophants.

 

[rekil]

Twenty years shovelling shit in one of Uncle Joe's holiday camps. Then the gun job.

Does Laurie P really follow this shit?

Radical ethical personal brand building journo, you had one job.

 

[Theisticle]

*grabs popcorn*

 

[chilango]

I might spend the next few weeks learning how to mimic Molly's drawing style. Had a quick go recently, it's pretty easy.

 

[butchersapron]

I might spend the next few weeks learning how to mimic Molly's drawing style. Had a quick go recently, it's pretty easy.

Don't you just do blurry lines and naff vicrtoriana? And round curvy bits?

 

[killer b]

*grabs popcorn*

 

[chilango]

Don't you just do blurry lines and naff vicrtoriana? And round curvy bits?

I think their the bits I need to practise!

...and I'm still playing around with the self-portrait.

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[seventh bullet]

Twenty years shovelling shit in one of Uncle Joe's holiday camps. Then the gun job.

It wouldn't be pretty, that's for sure.

After 8 years.

 

[Idris2002]

It wouldn't be pretty, that's for sure.

After 8 years.

Where'd you find this one? (genuine question)

 

[J Ed]

*grabs popcorn*

I get the impression Whelan reads Urban a decent amount

 

[butchersapron]

I get the impression Whelan reads Urban a decent amount

He does more than read - don't you lazyhack?

 

[el-ahrairah]

Radical ethical personal brand building journo, you had one job.


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woah, they really do stick together. i can't believe even she would uncritically support that scumbag.

 

[lazyhack]

He does more than read - don't you lazyhack?

Butchers. I am a journalism person at the News. Please do not lecture me on lurking.

 

[rekil]

I might spend the next few weeks learning how to mimic Molly's drawing style. Had a quick go recently, it's pretty easy.

Dunno much about art, but she already looks doomed to repeat herself. Her agent retweeted me for suggesting she's having a go at being the new banksy. As an aside, I'm pretty sure that if we put on an exhibition of PD art and we used naked women in baths to promote it, we'd get in trouble.

 

[chilango]

Dunno much about art, but she already looks doomed to repeat herself. Her agent retweeted me for suggesting she's having a go at being the new banksy. As an aside, I'm pretty sure that if we put on an exhibition of PD art and we used naked women in baths to promote it, we'd get in trouble.

Well...she obviously has a certain amount of skill in her drawing/draughtsmanship and the style she works in is ideally suited to illustration. But it's far from great art.

 

[MAD-T-REX]

aye right. You wish.

I can easily imagine a panel discussion on state repression in which Crabapple et al would talk over someone who had spent years in Gitmo.

'I have to live with my tweets being monitored.'

 

[Theisticle]

Penny's now manually replying to people who linked to her Harvard tweet:

 

[tufty79]

Commentariat credentialgeddon!

 

[Theisticle]

Check your credentials.

 

[Theisticle]

Too good:

 

[Theisticle]

Other journo's not happy with Penny:

 

[J Ed]

I love the idea that you need to go to Harvard to find out that you shouldn't lie about what others have said, most people learn that that is wrong when they compulsively lie as a toddler and are corrected by their parents. Evidently Penny's rich lawyer parents never told her that lying is wrong so now she has to go to Harvard where she will, uhh.. I actually have no idea, find out better ways to justify her behaviour?

Oh look, everyone who points this out is a misogynist, surprising






...wouldn't that make her attacks on Nesrine Malik racist?

 

[YouSir]

I love the idea that you need to go to Harvard to find out that you shouldn't lie about what others have said, most people learn that that is wrong when they compulsively lie as a toddler and are corrected by their parents. Evidently Penny's rich lawyer parents never told her that lying is wrong so now she has to go to Harvard where she will, uhh.. I actually have no idea, find out better ways to justify her behaviour?

You miss the point, it's like that M&S ad - you may think that you're honest and ethical but you're still not commentariat honest and ethical. Don't worry, few years at Harvard will sort that right out. Or just wait til Laurie Penny graduates and she'll no doubt explain it all to you in a concise and not at all egotistical article.

 

[Theisticle]

 

[J Ed]

Imagine if she didn't choose her words carefully

 

[J Ed]

Laurie Penny worked hard to get her fellowship at Harvard, just like any other brightest girl at smart private school could, nasty neoliberal ideas about 'choice' just drip from everything she writes.

 

[Theisticle]

Her tweets with Nesrine are so revealing. She has really internalised any criticism as something more sinister. Not to mention arrogant in the first place to use her privilege to shut down debate and then name search herself to defend it.

 

[butchersapron]

All that said, nesrine malik can get to fuck as well.

Taking a risk and earning commensurate reward on the either the perspicacity or audacity of the stake is the cornerstone of the globalised economy of opportunity in which we live.

I really wanted to avoid penny as well, but that tweet is just so perfect. It needs repeating i think: