Tuesday, September 11, 2007
COLUMNIST INVITES READERS TO IGNORE HER
The Age’s Catherine Deveny seems not to understand the relationship between newspaper columnist and reader:
Why would anyone care what I think? Who’d give a monkey’s about what a stranger writing in a newspaper would think about their choice? If someone had a go at something I’d decided to do, I wouldn’t give a rat’s. I’m happy with my choices.
I don’t give a stuff what you do. I’m just paid to write what I think. There’s no gun to your head. Turn the page. If you can’t stand the heat, read the Herald Sun. Why bother trying to set me straight. All you’ve done is prove my point.
As a slogan for the Age, “We Don’t Give a Stuff What You Do” works pretty well.
UPDATE. Stahlblume notes: “She’s happy with her own choices … just not with other people’s.”