Yesterday’s Sunday Times had a dull as dishwater article about Irish blogs and as usual they had a little pop at me. I’m sure it’s an editorial edict – ‘whenever blogging is mentioned please ensure you mention Twenty Major and what a crude, witless oaf he is’.
It’s getting a bit tired now, Frank, don’t you think? Anyway, in the image below you can see a snippet from the article (click for big).
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And have you ever read anything as smug and condescending as “Isn’t that typical, and disheartening for those who hoped the internet might be a forum for higher minds?”
Yeah, the internet a forum for higher minds. I mean, really. Anyway, it’s quite clear they don’t think very much of me, which is entirely fine. I couldn’t care less what they think, bunch of Colins that they are.
It was, however, amusing, to turn two pages further forward in the paper to find a profile of David McSavage, towards whom the Sunday Times has been suspiciously friendly in the last few weeks. From a big piece in the Culture, to a fairly positive review for his execrable TV show from a man who normally hates every single thing he watches, to this profile, it’s odd how much coverage he’s getting. I’ll leave it to you to speculate as to the why.
Anyway, in the first colum I spotted a quote from an unnamed blogger. The image is below. Again, click for big.
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Of course that unnamed blogger is me, from a post in January of this year. So, three or four pages back they are bemoaning my very existence, then they’re using unattributed quotes from my blog.
Why can’t they just leave me in peace? Stop teasing me with little displays of affection. It’s tearing me apart, Lisa.
No doubt they’ll pop into the comments section for a little light banter, like they did when the book came out and they dedicated a half a page in the Culture to a hatchet job. Or maybe this time they’ll just shut the fuck up, go back to the drawing board and think of a new angle for their next piece to try and convince everyone that blogs are bad and good old fashioned newspapers are still the future.
The silly cunts.
The newspaper is a dying medium. They’ll say whatever they can to try and entice people away from t’internet. Don’t worry, Twenty. We still love ya. Like Ike loved Tina.
Let ‘em whinge. As Peter says the dead-tree press is feeling the heat in more than one way. They’ve singularly failed to do the job of a free press and now they are being supplanted.
Lets not forget the advent of the ‘advertorial’ etc, newspapers ignoring bad news which might offend their advertisers etc.
Fuck ‘em. They are a dynosaur industry and they hatched their own eggs.
REMEMBER TWENTY….
‘A PROPHET IN HIS OWN COUNTRY….’
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
I read you every day. I cant be arsed buying The Sunday Times anymore.
Twenty 7-0 ST
Being criticized by the Sunday Times is a bit like being stoned to death with popcorn, isn’t it?
heh, Lung.
Well Twenty, you can take comfort in the fact that you don’t work for Rupert Murdoch which must be an awful thing for a journalist.
Main stream jouno hacks hate bloggers because of the freedoms they have and any time they get mentioned in press or on air it’s usually in the form of a snide remark.
And the higher minds comment is hilarious. How do these people graduate?
I *really* wouldn’t worry about what those cunts think of you… And McSavage? For fuck’s sake…
I’m *really* not worried, just thought it was funny.
And the higher minds comment is hilarious. How do these people graduate?
Fuck knows. That was just the most incredibly naive comment.
I like to print out my favourite blogs just so’s I can take them seriously. I’m just that high-minded.
The “higher minds” comment is extremely strange, in fairness. Who, exactly, hoped the internet would be a forum for higher minds? And why is it Twenty’s fault that it’s not? Very odd kind of summation, there.
I think you should be flattered by the attention.
Journalist = Reptile
I read it and after the nausea of registering and logging in I wrote a comment yesterday. It then went off to be moderated and has never appeared, so there you go. It was patronising nonsense (the article – but maybe my comment too, although that should have made it ideal to be published there)
Are they saying Boo or Boo-urns?
It’s boo, John. It’s boo.
I’ll never read the ST (for free) again, they have gone too far!
Good man, maggot! Solidarity!!
The corporate media loathe bloggers and the internet. Rupert Murdoch has been very vocal about the commercial threat the net poses to his empire so it is not surprising to see a thinly-veiled attack job on you and blogging in general.
You do heavily rely on an excessive use of the C word Twenty Major.
As much as I enjoy reading your blog,as it is very funny, witty and your views chime strongly with my own, your enthusiasm for the c word is galling.
It’s excessive use can undermine the legitimacy and credibility of your blog – and will only alienate you from the mainstream respectability that you obviously crave.
It is a very violent, offensive and misogynistic word and you would be better served to cease using it – or at least less frequently.
but hey, what do I know………….
I don’t bother much the Irish Times either. It’s just the Ranelagh Times these days. Roisin Ingle’s self interested petty twattle or Tom Doorley’s pretentious food musings. The Indo is shameless muck. The Examiner should have had the balls to remain as the Cork Examiner. We need different centres of perspective. All Galway has is a fucking gazette. And forget about the red tops. The northern papers are all about not being the other one.
There’s no good Irish newspaper left.
Yeah Twenty,you see how you a cunt..
Could Damien Rice be behind this ? Could he be a Murdoch love-child?
yeah you fucking cunty cunting cunt
It’s excessive use can undermine the legitimacy and credibility of your blog – and will only alienate you from the mainstream respectability that you obviously crave.
Oh, I wasn’t aware I was craving mainstream respectability. I shall stop using ‘the C word’ (barf) at once then.
I heard Ray Darcy refer to it as the
C U Next Tuesday word. What a cunt
Reminds me of the Script song If You See Kay
I don’t know who the Script are but I hate them now.
I know I’m always saying it but I’ll say it again
Why do people buy, don’t mind read, the Mi5 paper know as the sunday times? I suppose it’s the same lowest common denominator reasoning behind people buying and/or reading the sunday independent.
the vast majority of people are cunts
happy xmas twenty
You’re right to hate them Twenty, The Script are bland and boring, as are their songs. They are so insipid I’m not sure if they did the title deliberately or not
The Script are like The Blizzards and other spoiled floppy haired south county Dublin children of barristers who can play around with ‘rock’ until their needed in the family business full time.
Except Hm that the Script are northsiders and The Blizzards are from outside the pale somewhere..
Apart from that,spot on..
Exactly but you know what I mean by my sweeping generalisation.
Like Keane
Were any of you at Newgrange this morning?
Yes but slept through it.
Sunday Times has A.A. Gill so I have to buy it.
But the article was a cheap stab at “oh, anything popular must be rancid.”
What snobbish thugs.
Don’t mind them, Twenty, they’re just jealous!
It’s a compliment, really, that they feel so threatened by you that they have to snipe at you every chance they get.
And then to consolidate their prehistoricness, they praise Dave McSavage, the most unpopular “comedian” in the country!
This is the only series he will ever have, trust me, and he will disappear back into the relative obscurity from whence he came!
Happy Crimbo, Everyone!
Sunday Times also have a very anti-Irish agenda. They’re disingenuous cunts. They use faux concern for Irish issues as a way of disrespecting us.
What snobbish thugs.
Most apt.
HM – You’d wonder how much editorial control there is over the Irish edition from London.
Sunday Times also have a very anti-Irish agenda
Problem ?
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/1221/breaking53.htm
What a twat- go to court with drucks in your pocket ?
Whenever they mention you, consider it free advertizing which will bring people to your blog. You should hope that they don’t try to bill you for it. They do need the revenue.
The turkeys know christmas when they see it.
But the affected condescension is brilliant.
Esp coming from the Murdoch press.
It’s quaint how some people still take newspapers seriously over there. Old people and people who need bird-cage liners and all, that is.
And “a forum for higher minds”? Is there some other Internet I haven’t heard about? Because the one I’m on has Transformers Animated slash, midget scheisser videos, and people who say “cunt” a lot. And I like it that way.
Have a shite, wipe your arse with the article, and snail mail it back to them, the cunts.
“Isn’t that typical, and disheartening for those who hoped the internet might be a forum for higher minds?”
What a line! I wonder how many of these disheartened people are out there? Actually, who cares, they’re probably a shower of cunts anyway.
Poor Cowen, my heart goes out to him!
In an informal Christmas briefing, the Taoiseach said the unprecedented events of 2009 had been extremely difficult for him on a personal level.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/1221/breaking73.htm
Keep on going Twenty, you’re obviously having a impact on the patronising ST Cunts!
Talk of an annus horribilis by Cowen… I’ve no sympathy for the Cunt.. he needs to shut up and focus on fixing the mess that he helped to create.
The personal thing is interesting though – has he been “tigering” ?
Any cunt can have a blog. It takes a special kind of cunt to write for a national newspaper.
Where can I buy the Galway Fucking Gazette?
No Irish blog is important enough to read every day. Until that changes, you’ll be getting your news and comment on paper.
Ha i’ve never gotten my news on paper and I check two blogs pretty much every day.
They dont seem to get the idea that media is plural of medium. And a medium is merely a means of communicating with people. How people choose to use, or in the case of the enlightened, not use the said medium is not the fault of anybody. News paper is another medium and it is largely used to communicate sports results and tabloid news…
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