I assumed they stuck it there for SEO purposes rather than because they really think Laura Barton's opinion on Lauren Laverne is as important as Palestine.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 11:27 (thirteen years ago) link
I realise it's flagrant zingbait but I'm quite intrigued by the Portlandia thing (which I am reading abt for the first time in the quoted post above), if only because the late-teen versh of myself would be terribly disappointed otherwise
― nothing tastes as good as zingy feels (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 12:23 (thirteen years ago) link
it wasn't so much the show as the paragraph hurting my eyes
― zvookster, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 12:27 (thirteen years ago) link
yes. she also says 'those of us on this side of the pond' which I think Mark S banned a long time ago
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 12:42 (thirteen years ago) link
She makes a very valid point about Lauren's deployment versus her experience on 10 O'Clock - the 'hawt blonde sidekick OTMing the nerds' space she currently fills there needs fixing, STAT.
― pwn de floor (suzy), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 12:47 (thirteen years ago) link
My suggestions for fixing The 10 O'Clock Show mostly involve a rocket and the sun.
― Cars and Freedom (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 12:50 (thirteen years ago) link
good call
― Jefferson Mansplain (DG), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 14:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh dear...
Guardian media commentator Roy Greenslade gave it to The Sun with both barrels this morning over its “failure” to run the news that Sky sports pundits Richard Keys and Andy Gray had been axed in a row over off-air sexist comments.
“…the editor, Dominic Mohan, got it hopelessly wrong. By ignoring the story, he tends to prove the theory that Murdoch’s papers dance to Murdoch’s tune.”
Axegrinder understands that there was much hilarity at Wapping when perplexed hacks realised that Roy must have been reading an Irish edition of The Sun which was missing the Sky Sports tale. Sun readers elsewhere will have seen that the story was in fact splashed across pages one, four and five.
Roy’s misfiring blog post disappeared shortly after the mishap was pointed out. But it has not disappeared from the internet completely, you can see a version of it here.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 14:03 (thirteen years ago) link
"Get 'Em Off" was the Sun headline, I believe
― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 14:07 (thirteen years ago) link
has anyone ever described a man as "whip-smart"? also who is the "we" that barton refers to.
btw have we had a thread about that awful show yet? i can't think of a worse example of "omg ur soooo right, u should be president, i agree with u cos it makes me smart" bullshit than putting brooker and mitchell on a c4 show.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 16:11 (thirteen years ago) link
It's on a thread about the 11 o'clock show, I think.
― ailsa, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 16:12 (thirteen years ago) link
has anyone ever described a man as "whip-smart"?
HA. Henry Root used to make the same running observation about the use of "corrosively intelligent" which only applies to actresses apparently.
― Cars and Freedom (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 16:14 (thirteen years ago) link
in a way it is worse for The Sun to hypocritically decry sexism. in a way.
― idgi fridays (blueski), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
pretty funny given what barton's saying in the piece, "whip-smart" is such a cutesy twee term. why wouldn't you just say "smart"? why "whip-smart"? if you wanted to call someone smart you'd say they're smart.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 16:17 (thirteen years ago) link
It has a head-patting ring to it, yeah, like you'd tell a 10 year-old they're "whip smart" and then give them a shiny 50p coin.
― Cars and Freedom (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 16:18 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah exactly, you'd use it talking about a precocious child or something.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 16:21 (thirteen years ago) link
http://drinksbyjohn.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/wert.jpg
― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 16:22 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.fti.asn.au/blogs/production-support-report/juno.jpg
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 16:59 (thirteen years ago) link
i think it's ok to say 'whip-smart'
― read before patoing (history mayne), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 17:00 (thirteen years ago) link
and like, yeah it's on the 'front page' of the internet but way far down and laura barton is one of their main writers. the big headline they have up is about a pay-channel football commentator getting the sack, so, you know...
― read before patoing (history mayne), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 17:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Axegrinder understands that there was much hilarity at Wapping when perplexed hacks realised that Roy must have been reading an Irish edition of The Sun which was missing the Sky Sports tale. Sun readers elsewhere will have seen that the story was in fact splashed across pages one, four and five.Roy’s misfiring blog post disappeared shortly after the mishap was pointed out. But it has not disappeared from the internet completely, you can see a version of it here.
also most of this stuff has been leaked by sky news.
andy gray is one of the potential litigants in the notw phone hacking thing. cynical, or just being honest?
― caek, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 20:14 (thirteen years ago) link
For all the celebrity bollocks they go on for, the Guardian could now realistically claim to be the best newspaper in the anglophone world. Which means, of course, the world.
― The New Dirty Vicar, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 21:10 (thirteen years ago) link
least worst
― Jefferson Mansplain (DG), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 21:53 (thirteen years ago) link
least worst might be right, but still.
― The New Dirty Vicar, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 01:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Usually, the media would be going "this is going too far, no-one can compliment a woman now for fear of getting sacked", but ooh, it's Murdoch effectively doing the sacking, so....
― Mark G, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 09:32 (thirteen years ago) link
apparently mMurdoch is also now NEGOTIATING with government about whether he gets his Sky deal.
not, government is going to make a ruling which will then be followed - but, government is going to NEGOTIATE outcome with Murdoch.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 10:57 (thirteen years ago) link
So it's "um, if we say no, can we still be pals?"
― Mark G, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 10:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Murdoch's support couldn't even buy them an election victory, don't see why they're obliged to bend over for him.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 11:00 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm shocked by how old Murdoch looks now. He's lost so much hair that he's finally had "the haircut".
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 11:45 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm wondering what's going to happen when he dies, whether the country and its media and politics will get better or whether the army of mini-Murdochs is too entrenched now. He does seem to wield an enormous amount of personal power that I can't quite see anyone else replicating.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 11:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Think someone needs to incept James Murdoch.
― Stevie T, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 11:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Even looks like Saito:
http://img.ibtimes.com/www/data/images/full/2011/01/25/60896-rupert-murdoch-chairman-and-chief-executive-of.jpg
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 11:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Osama Hamdan is head of the Hamas international relations department
― Jefferson Mansplain (DG), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 13:36 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, about that... kind of amazing rly
― read before patoing (history mayne), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 13:49 (thirteen years ago) link
presumably he was bumped up from the Hamas home electronics department (2nd floor)
― Jefferson Mansplain (DG), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 14:12 (thirteen years ago) link
really surprised noone wanted to talk about the graun giving hamas their own op-ed column
oh wait
― Jefferson Mansplain (DG), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 19:00 (thirteen years ago) link
do despair with the guardian sometimes. saw one of their writers on the bbc politics show on sun discussing the great cameron speech and she basically agreed more or less perfectly with the guy from the sun. what was the point?
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 15:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Was it Julian Glover?
― I've been dancing since 9 and I'm tired and hungry (Dorianlynskey), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 16:00 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't 'get' that guy and his hilarious little lord fauntleroy byline pic being in the guardian alongside seamus milne. reminds me of the independent, incoherence-wise.
― the most revered deity in the universe (history mayne), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 16:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Is he any relation to, errrrr, Julian Glover?
― Tom D (Lenin's his feir and Liebknecht's his mate) (Tom D.), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 16:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Even the Mail employs a token leftie or two so I assume he's the Guardian's designated coalition cheerleader in the interests of balance. Still aggravating though, because he tends to appear as the man from the Guardian rather than an outlying columnist.
― I've been dancing since 9 and I'm tired and hungry (Dorianlynskey), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 16:37 (thirteen years ago) link
nothing is as egregious as the indy's continued employment of bruce anderson
― acoleuthic, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 16:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Glover is civil partnered with Matthew Parris, of course. So I wouldn't expect a massive philosophical divergence.
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 17:00 (thirteen years ago) link
This Giddens fellow must be regretting writing this?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/mar/09/comment.libya
― lycanthrope electrif (Pashmina), Saturday, 26 February 2011 10:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Piece is some pretty boneheaded stuff even w/o taking "current events" into account.
― lycanthrope electrif (Pashmina), Saturday, 26 February 2011 10:17 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/feb/26/darin-strauss-car-crash-kira-cochrane
obv a v tragic event for the writer, but like...who commissioned this? it really is a long winded and conceptually weird article. load of rubbish.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Sunday, 27 February 2011 11:32 (thirteen years ago) link
i worry about how classist i am sometimes. i stopped reading when i got to "gleave".
― À la recherche du temps Pardew (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 27 February 2011 11:36 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean i am middle-class, but i'm from the west of scotland, my da was a refugee, we were poor when i was a wean, etc. fucking "gleave".
― À la recherche du temps Pardew (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 27 February 2011 11:37 (thirteen years ago) link
tibalt.
like if she met the guy whose car hit her brother, then that'd be one thing. but as it is it's like the author is kinda offering basic human consolation which anyone really could put forward.
also...doing 40mph in a 30mph zone and hitting a child who was on the side of the road at dusk is more in the realms of tragic rather than heinous. it's not like he was drunk or something.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Sunday, 27 February 2011 11:42 (thirteen years ago) link