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This week’s Continuing Crisis column for the Bulletin is on the crappiest photoshop the world has ever seen. Much better piece on the Reuters debacle here.
By the way, I’ve quit at the Bulletin. I’ll finish up there in five weeks or so. No big reason for this; several small reasons, however, none of them very interesting.
UPDATE. IBD: “Is Reuters a patsy or collaborator? Either way, it is helping the cause of terrorism and undermining civilization.”
By the way, does this mean you’re about to frivolously invest $50 000 or so in this website? We citizen journalists demand
paymentan answer!Posted by James Waterton on 2006 08 09 at 01:15 PM • permalinkGood luck, Tim! Where to next—Reuters? Or the New York Times? ;-P
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 08 09 at 03:07 PM • permalinkMore Adnan Hajj Photoshopping & The Reuters Lebanese Mystery Woman Who’s Always Ready For Her Close-Up
Can ya’ see why everyone just loves, Americans. I mean, the whole world just adores us, you can feel it….:).
hat tip Doug @ lgf.
I trust that your dissent wasn’t being crushed, Tim. Or, worse, forcing you to watch ‘your’ ABC for news tips!
Posted by andycanuck on 2006 08 09 at 03:26 PM • permalinkOpportunity is a bird that never perches—fly, Tim, fly and be free!
Best of luck to you, though I doubt you need it.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 08 09 at 04:31 PM • permalinkOnward and upward, Tim!
Zombie has a pretty good synopsis of the Reuters story as it has unfolded thus far. Via Lucianne who features this great Cox and Forkum cartoon today.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 08 09 at 04:43 PM • permalinkTim
I trust that you will continue to maintain your blog site. Hope you haven’t got sick of it yet. I find it compulsory reading every day ...Posted by LuvDaKartoons on 2006 08 09 at 04:44 PM • permalinkAll the best careerwise Tim. Please don’t do a Chrenkov on us - so keep blogging!
—Nick and Nora
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2006 08 09 at 04:55 PM • permalinkLet the blog remain!!!!
Tim, my honey bunny how can I meet my future husband if you have no blog?
p.s.
The manipulation of imagery is also the manipulation of truth regardless of the words that go with the image.
The image should be based upon documentation of the current crisis in Lebannon.
Pictures in theory should need no words.
I suppose that’s why they created journalists sometimes, to create employment.LOL
The Bull mag… You promote him!!!!
Here’s the gossip on the street.
Tim’s off to Web Diary.
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 08 09 at 06:42 PM • permalinkGeez, and after we gave the new editor such a warm welcome.
#17 Funnily enough, if he was going to WD, they might suddenly have a hope in hell.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 08 09 at 06:50 PM • permalinkShould we be looking for a repeat of Glen Harwood’s Bulletin scandal?
Can’t find an example in this month’s edition.My best wishes too, Tim. Whatever you’ve got planned I hope it succeeds brilliantly.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 08 09 at 08:25 PM • permalink#23 Spot on! For example, maybe 1.618 could open some threads…
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 08 09 at 08:49 PM • permalinkI am happy to take over in a managerial and money-collecting capacity, but there will have to be some big changes, and I will need large numbers of easily influenced volunteers in some kind of sub-tropical commune tending to my every wish. Deal?
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 08 09 at 09:19 PM • permalinkMargos Maid
I am happy to take over in a managerial and money-collecting capacity, but there will have to be some big changes, and I will need large numbers of easily influenced volunteers in some kind of sub-tropical commune tending to my every wish. Deal?
Took the words right off my fingertips, ya’ did.
I was just mulling over adding to my previous post, switching Tim Blair Blogging and Other Industries, Inc. Corporate HQ, to my brand new luxury office complex, in Pago-Pago.
I would now like to nominate, 1.168, MentalFloss and Margos Maid as initial ‘guest’ bloggers, collectors of funds and
spewerswriters of philosophy.Do I hear a second?
What’s going on here? Has Blair become independently wealthy from timblair.net that he doesn’t need another job? He should let others be the judge of the several small “uninteresting” reasons to leave the Bulletin.
And Lileks has some big announcement in about six weeks
Connection? Iowahawk is strangely silent.
You can get fired for pissing in the boss’s desk drawer?
In that case I’ll stick to pissing in his coffee.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 08 09 at 09:52 PM • permalinkHmmmm, the Bully didn’t mind the long lunches, it must have been the expensive wine on the expense account.
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2006 08 09 at 10:02 PM • permalink#33 Sadly for you, Timmeh “Fair and Reasonable” Bla-eurgh is the judge of who shall judge. You can judge if this is fair or not, but then - who are you to judge?
In the meantime, if you are that keen on uninteresting material, there is always webdiary.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 08 09 at 10:08 PM • permalinkEl Cid
it’s a new Sumatran Blend
And no sir, I don’t know why it tastes like rancid vinegar that’s been used to marinate a wrestler’s jockstrap.
Didn’t you say the same about the coffe we bought last week?
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 08 09 at 10:18 PM • permalink(In all fairness my current employer is a very decent chap. A couple of his predecessors, though, one in particular - I think the expression fucking imbecile says all that needs to be said.)
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 08 09 at 10:21 PM • permalinklatest..
A defiant Hizbollah chief vowed to turn south Lebanon into a “graveyard” for invading Israeli troops, hours after the Jewish state ordered an expanded ground offensive.
“You won’t be able to stay in our land, and if you come in, we’ll force you out,” said Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah in a televised speech shown on Hizbollah’s television station.
the bold reminds me of Australia now the Islamic state ... Our land etc…
“We will turn our precious southern land into a graveyard for the invading Zionists.”
Sounds like Bankstown or Lakemba….. that’s a Yahoo story…
But could it be propaganda… where’s the Hezzy photograph with buildings on fire with this wired story?
Oh, you all must be ready for a work out with 1.618
okies, now double click the mouse and rest…
now double click the mouse and rest…
now double click the mouse and rest…breathe…....in and out….......
meditate…...... and wow.. Power meditation has finished.. well done….
44 1.618
The hell with the BeardedBollah, he will soon be ashes.
But the rest of your post (I don’t know about others) but it has me feeling, tremendously better.
That, is the reason I placed your name in the first position, for guest blogging.
Anyone have a cigarette and I don’t even smoke….well not that way…lol.
After reading some comment the other day from some guy who was hinting that Tim had resigned from the Bully, the other night for some reason I dreamed that Tim had joined the Washington Post…
First don’t ask me why i was dreaming about Tim, and secondly why the WP came into it??? Maybe I ate something that didn’t agree with me before I headed off for a few zzz’s???
But there you go….
Tim has been 86’ed for being accurate, but a fake.
iowahawk is busy pimping Tim’s MX5(miata).
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 08 09 at 11:28 PM • permalinkCasanova - Tim dropped over from 1.618’s dreams to appear in yours?
There’s money in this?Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 08 09 at 11:29 PM • permalinkIf my dreams are at all a portent, we may soon see Tim as a clothes-optional hang-gliding instructor.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 08 10 at 12:52 AM • permalink#56,
Hell yes!. Tim should go into politics, he already has a popular support base. It would be a crime for you not to, Tim.Posted by Daniel San on 2006 08 10 at 01:46 AM • permalink#56 One thing is certain, he’ll have no need of a speechwriter.
I wonder if a party-hack/propagandist-cum-standover man is needed?
Australian Conservative Party…currently available (and has a nice ring to it).
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 08 10 at 02:15 AM • permalink#61 I always had a soft spot for the party party party.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 08 10 at 02:29 AM • permalinkGood luck, Tim, and keep up the good work.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 08 10 at 07:36 AM • permalink#59: Hell yes!. Tim should go into politics . . .
And Paco Productions is here to pave the way for Tim Blair’s success! Now, the way I see the first political ad, Tim is sitting on the couch in his living room, and me and Wronright and MentalFloss - heck, the whole gang! - come by and peek through the window . . .
There were some reasons for Tim’s departure pondered in this article in the Australian:
Runner-up runsAnother reason may be that the news search for “Tim Blair” that found this article turned up a grand total of 5 references, putting this Tim Blair on equal footing with the professional goat judge of the same name.
Tim:
Lane keeps his job and you leave yours—AMAZING!
Please, when you get your next regular gig, give us at least some hints on why you are leaving the Bulletin. For now, saying something bad about your employer on leaving is the worst thing to do if you are hunting for another.
But eventually, clue us in.
I think they should split Media Watch in two and give you half. Then people could see how it should and could be done.
Jim Lindgren
Posted by James Lindgren on 2006 08 10 at 01:52 PM • permalinkI don’t know whether Tim needs it, maybe he’ll donate it to “the cause”, but I’ve done the PayPal thing—may I recommend the loyal readers and commenters who have gained so much and been so entertained and informed by this site do the same?
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 08 10 at 05:50 PM • permalinkAnother reason may be that the news search for “Tim Blair” that found this article turned up a grand total of 5 references, putting this Tim Blair on equal footing with the professional goat judge of the same name.
What’s a “news search”, Tanky? A search for people in the news? Cuz Tim is, y’know, a journalist. They tend to report it, not make it. But hey, it apparently tickled your goolies, so enjoy.
44 1.618
The hell with the BeardedBollah, he will soon be ashes.
But the rest of your post (I don’t know about others) but it has me feeling, tremendously better.
That, is the reason I placed your name in the first position, for guest blogging.
Anyone have a cigarette and I don’t even smoke….well not that way…lol.
thanks el cid :)
For our friends in America..
The Star Spangled Banner
Oh, say can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines on the stream:
‘Tis the star-spangled banner! O long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wiped out their foul footstep’s pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the war’s desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust.”
And the star-spangled banner forever shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!Singing in key here….
By the way, I’ve quit at the Bulletin. I’ll finish up there in five weeks or so
Omigod, the Zionists have silenced you! They’re both evil AND bad shots! “Look, he mentioned Flavius Antonius on his blog! We must silence him, too!”
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 08 10 at 09:30 PM • permalinkthat shoulda aughta read come on, not come one.
sheesh. If I could do that grammar thing, I’d probably have better luck proof reading.
Kids, if you are reading this, pay attention in grammar class. Yes it’s boring as all heck but dang, you’re gonna sound like a moron later on if you dont learn it up now. Just try to make sense out of my postings if you need proof.
Australians all let us rejoice,
For we are young and free;
We’ve golden soil and wealth for toil;
Our home is girt by sea;
Our land abounds in nature’s gifts
Of beauty rich and rare;
In history’s page, let every stage
Advance Australia Fair.
In joyful strains then let us sing,
Advance Australia Fair.
Beneath our radiant Southern Cross
We’ll toil with hearts and hands;
To make this Commonwealth of ours
Renowned of all the lands;
For those who’ve come across the seas
We’ve boundless plains to share;
With courage let us all combine
To Advance Australia Fair.
In joyful strains then let us sing,
Advance Australia Fair.What’s a “news search”, Tanky? A search for people in the news? Cuz Tim is, y’know, a journalist. They tend to report it, not make it. Posted by Dave S. on 2006 08 10 at 08:46 PM • permalink
Actually Dave the search finds both the names of reporters and their subjects in the exact same way. So with the tendencies of journalists included, notably their byline, you get the same result.
The point I was making, which you apparently missed, was that perhaps Tim has decided he would like to share the same tendencies as other journalists do. Like reporting and getting articles published.
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All the best, Tim. The Bully will be worse off without you.