Columns in The Independent are surely the musings of the socially inept, those people you sidle away from at parties after a couple of stabs at conversation. They are the product of the system that has given a "voice" to people who have nothing to say apart from the fact that we’re all doomed, it’s capitalism’s fault and by the way, I met someone famous recently. Thousands of hackneyed opinions about books, politics, the environment and society written by people who can’t use a logical argument or recognise a fact. Endless reviews of this and that tapped out by idiotarians who’ve never experienced any culture other than the one within their own heads.
Janet Street Porter
January 7th, 2008 · 11 Comments
Tags: Newspaper Watch
11 responses so far ↓
1 Kay Tie // Jan 7, 2008 at 1:00 pm
You and Janet are both right. I stopped reading the Independent after the weirdings of the Green Goddess got a free ride. And most blogs are rubbish. So what? 90% of everything is crap, and it’s the gold we’re interested in.
For example, no-one in the MSM has yet picked up the Lionheart-to-be-arrested story. It’s a cracker, broken by the blogosphere.
2 Ingram // Jan 7, 2008 at 1:46 pm
I found her column via your blog; say no more…
3 Glenn (aka angry economist) // Jan 7, 2008 at 2:23 pm
I agree with Kay - this thesis applies to most columnists and blogs really. Except for Chris Dillow’s of course.
I can’t get over Matthew Parris’s wittering column in the Times - “today I made a cup of tea and buttered a scone.. etc.” I’m sure that I could write a column about the daily consistency of my 10-month old son’s sh*t and it would be more interesting and eventful (e.g. especially if spontaneous weeing happens at the unwrapping of the nappy).
4 JuliaM // Jan 7, 2008 at 3:19 pm
“…I could write a column about the daily consistency of my 10-month old son’s sh*t and it would be more interesting and eventful (e.g. especially if spontaneous weeing happens at the unwrapping of the nappy).”
Your 10 month old son’s nappy, or Parris’s..?
5 Mark Wadsworth // Jan 7, 2008 at 4:11 pm
Is ‘idiotarian’ officially a word now?
6 Ms Robinson // Jan 7, 2008 at 4:30 pm
‘Tis fashionable for crappy writers with columns to be worried about the fact that many bloggers are far more entertaining than they are.
7 Glenn (aka angry economist) // Jan 7, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Well I can’t give a qualified answer on Parris’s reactions to a nappy change, as he’s never written about it, although hitting the newstands tomorrow, who knows?!…
8 dearieme // Jan 8, 2008 at 12:11 am
Though I think of Dillowbert as “Mr Glum”, I must say his blog is top notch.
9 Serf // Jan 8, 2008 at 10:55 am
“by people who can’t use a logical argument or recognise a fact”
Either these people never read any blogs or they don’t read any good ones. Analysis on the good blogs is far superior to that of most columnists. It has to be or the blogger gets lynched.
10 Fabian Tassano // Jan 8, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Has “The Custodian” started a trend?
11 David Hadley // Jan 8, 2008 at 4:34 pm
I’ve never understood the Street -Porter phenomenon, as well as having a face for radio and a voice ideally suited to the silent film, she seems to have extremely limited intelligence and the insight of a terminally-unaware mollusc.
Therefore, I can only presume she must have a filing cabinet filled with compromising material featuring everyone who is anyone in the mainstream media.
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