Liberal Burblings – Editorial statement
There is a certain daily publication which refers to itself as a “newspaper” and has a two-word title. That title starts with the letter “D” and ends with the letter “L”.
As of today, 31st December 2009, this blog, Liberal Burblings, will never again refer to this atrocious, steaming pile of horse manure by its name and will certainly never provide any links to it. The so-called “newspaper” in question will be referred to only as “The Usual Suspect”.
I used to regularly read said “newspaper” for many years. It can be, insidiously, a carefree read over a coffee, with celebrity news, quick crosswords and a cartoon about an amiable dog. Indeed, it was our family “newspaper” for many years when I grew up, and my grandfather read it everyday from the 1920s. I stopped actually purchasing the said “newspaper” many years ago. Indeed, I wrote to the proprietor at the time, the previous Lord Harmsworth, telling him I would never again purchase his “newspaper” because it was too right wing. He replied saying that the “newspaper” had always been “patriotic” and used to have the motto “For King and Country” below its masthead. I replied back, saying that His Lordship was making the elementary, nay simple, mistake of confusing patriotism with political outlook, mentioning en passant that one of the largest (if not the largest) rumps of people who have fought and died for our country actually came or come from Glasgow, which is not a vicinity noted for its right wing leanings.
And, of course, over the years there have been countless non-sensical and alarmist articles in said “newspaper”. I could tolerate that.
However, in the last two months there have been two bigoted, disgusting, sickening articles in “The Usual Suspect” which have been the two straws which have broken the camel’s back. I have had enough. I am never again even going to go to The Usual Suspect’s website. I am never again going to pick up a free copy of the “newspaper” in question. And I will never mention the “newspaper” on this blog except by the code “The Usual Suspect” (if I must) and I will certainly never link to it. I will even (and this is a great sacrifice) refrain those mischievous and hilarious “tweet the vote” campaigns on their websites’ ”daily poll”.
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The |Mail is pretty well the only newspaper or part of the MSM in Britain which does not widely censor in the fascist cause. Will you be expecting to hear on the BBC about what the leaked climategate emails say? Or what why Hamas aren’t nice? Or about Neather’s announcement that Labour had deliberately promoted immigration to “elect a new people”? Or on why illegal wars against Yugoslavia may not be marks of sinthood? The Mail & the Morning Star are the only newspapers in Britain which will even consider publishing letters mentioning our government’s genocide in Kosovo, radiation hormesis or X-Prizes.
I doubt if you even know what these are. Sio go & let the rest of the MSM wrap youn in their fascist cotton wool.
Presumably they also broke the story about organ thieving, nazi whoring lib dems. The Usual Suspect can publish what it likes. I haven’t read it properly for twenty years anyway, so the only real change here is that I will not publicise it. Go somewhere else if you want to read free plugs for it.
Regretably they didn’t report that. I did not hold them up as an ideal of journalisitic integrity but simply the best around.
Not reading something is certainly a structured method of ensuring certainty. Like censorship it seems to be “Lib” dem policy.
So you read everything do you?
Paul (if I may be so informal), I don’t think yours, however well founded, is a good idea. If you create a post using the proper name, you will draw search engines to it. This would be handy in the event you are drawing into question is journalistic integrity. I think this self imposed censorship would be counter productive.
…to continue in this vein, leads only in preaching to the converted.
“leads only in preaching to the converted.”
Fortunately the likes of Neil (above) are always there to disabuse me of that luxury.
OK, but what about part 1 of my comments? Like I said, despite how well founded, I think not using the correct name only assists that which you would revile.
Well it’s my decision. This is an uncommercial hobby site. I can do what I feel like. It’s great fun isn’t it? Over the last three and a half years I have had 89 hits from people searching for that “newspaper” or its Sunday edition. That’s out of 224,466 visits – so 0.0396% of my hits. As virtually all the blog posts I do about The Usual Suspect are also covered many times by other bloggers making much the same points, then that traffic in future will simply go to other liberals having a go at it instead of me. Fine. I’m happy with that. I keep on coming back to this point: this is my blog. I can do what I like. Whoppeeeeee!
There is no shortage of knockers of The Usual Suspect in the blogosphere which search engines can find – for example there is a whole blog virtually devoted to slagging it off on a daily basis: http://www.dailyquail.org/
Of course it is your blogg and of course that means you can post as you wish. I understand, however, that I would encourage people to respond to your bloggs, and that is what i am doing.
I appreciate that TUS searches might make only a tiny percent of your traffic, but to use a cliché, if you expose just one person to a POV that changes their mind towards yours, wouldn’t that had been worth it?
…equally, if there is such a small amount of traffic seeking TUS comment, then the promotion for that paper you seek to discourage, by your own admission, doesn’t really exist to any significant degree anyway.
As a mater of principle I am not going to give them any publicity. I believe they deliberately pander to alarm, in order to get more people going to their website and thus making more money from advertising. I am not going to play their game.