'Cause it's not what you've done/It's what you've been
If you fuck up/I'm telling Tim
-- I'm Telling Tim (NOFX)
Regarding the "anti-Spezza" posts on Tim Baines's new blog:
1) Don Brennan and Bruce Garrioch are big boys - one would hope they could defend themselves;
2) Don't you wish this blog was around in 2008? It would have been interesting to see Baines take up for his writers when this was going on.
More later.
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Did you love the shot taken at the blogging world? "Local hacks living in their mother's basement?"
Stay classy Tim - while the rest of us continue to find you and your department's work irrelevant.
The Dutch Treat
4:01 p.m.
Is there anything more uninspired than the "living in mother's basement" crack? When did we revert back to 1997?
The Universal Cynic
7:01 p.m.
He covers "wrestling" for a living....I wonder if Timbo has ever heard of "people in glass houses"...?
What's funny is the backlash that very unintelligible "blog post" of his is getting.
I work a journalist. I know what the bounds of opinion vs. commentary vs. actual news is - sadly the Sun's journalists do not and as a result Tim has failed incredibly as their editor.
The Dutch Treat
7:05 p.m.
Ah, see. Now we've hit on that "media accountability" thing I went on about earlier. Hiding behind your whinging boss does not a respectable reporter make.
I can't (?) believe that any business today thinks that insulting their clientele is a good idea.
Except MLSE, I mean. But they are owned by teachers; perhaps in their case it's satire.
Dazillion
5:37 p.m.