Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Poor Choices, in reply to Morgan Nichol,
My first instinct was “fuck was it me?” wonder if I’m alone in that. But I don’t have a regular thing, so I’m sure it’s not.
No! This was alarming, gendered and weirdly abusive. The guy was a cannabis advocate, and not at all a good advertisement for smoking weed.
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Hard News: Poor Choices, in reply to Sue,
Would it not be great if this time was used to tell those stories, to teach, to learn and to help. And i suspect many an excellent journalist out there, would leap at this reporting if they weren’t going to get shut down in case it cause a suicide.
I was thinking the proposed disability blog I mentioned in yesterday's post would be a good place for the telling of stories. I'd be delighted if you felt able to contribute there, Sue.
And I'm both sorry to hear it's been so tough and glad to know you have friends at hand.
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Hard News: Poor Choices, in reply to giovanni tiso,
and when I cottoned on she was just a PR person I really couldn’t quite figure out what the point of the whole thing was. It seems to me that the punishment for a racist tweet – the whole world suddenly hates you – didn’t fit the crime.
Yeah, the Sacco thing got quite scary. People were being denounced even for suggesting that a more measured view might be in order.
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Hard News: Poor Choices, in reply to Nik Dirga,
Some of the responses to Goldberg's essay really did prove her point too. She was immediately vilified and demonised.
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Hard News: Poor Choices, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
It’s funny how a lot of people who’ve had their privacy violated even more egregiously than Alec Baldwin – i.e. every ‘celebrity’ who gave testimony to the Leveson Inquiry – managed to do so without expecting a lifetime pass for their bad behaviour.
Yeah, maybe they're just better people. Although we don't, of course, know what they might have said or done in private.
Baldwin's outbursts were worse than than he indicates in his column. But he did actually apologise. It's the constant piling on -- and Sullivan's demand that other gay media people join him in denouncing Baldwin -- with which I feel a bit uncomfortable.
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Hard News: Poor Choices, in reply to Richard Aston,
It seems for many people there is a weird disconnect between their selves and their online selves. They just say shit they would never dream of saying to someone’s face.
Jonathan Milne's "meet the bloggers" story in Sunday's HoS annoyed me for the way it normalised that behaviour in the cases of Whaleoil and Bradbury.
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Hard News: Poor Choices, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
{ETA: Serious trigger warning – link contains a lot of homophobic/transphobic slurs I hope anyone with a shred of decency would find offensive.}
Really? Reading the words "faggot" (which Baldwin insists he didn't say) and "vicious little queen" (which he admits calling a Daily Mail reporter who lied about his wife) is "seriously triggering"?
Baldwin's clearly a bit of a dick, but I also sympathise with him over the degree of media intrusion on his private life, and for the kind of pile-on he's been subject to. One could be forgiven for thinking he's the worst person in the world.
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Hard News: Poor Choices, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
If your response to getting called out on your homophobic slurs is to throw yourself a five-and-a-thousand word pity party rather than accept any ownership for your own actions and their consequences?
You’re a bully, and a remarkably obtuse one at that.
Except he says he didn’t say that. And even if he did, in the midst of a kind of vile, disturbing invasion of privacy none of us will ever have to deal with, does it make sense to keep on convicting him over and over, ignoring anything else he does or says in his actual life? Can you not see what’s wrong with that?
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Christ. Herald sportswriter Dana Johansen on the evil abuse she's been receiving for doing her job.
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Hard News: Let's do some commerce, in reply to Sacha,
or strategic
hey!
Going forward.