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A Sydney Morning Herald staffer called the other day, annoyed that I’d described Antony Loewenstein as an ex-SMH employee. “He was only a cadet at f2, the online network,” the whistleblower said. “I think he wrote a few book reviews for us, but he was never on staff at the SMH. Even f2 eventually had to let him go.”

Apologies to the SMH for getting this wrong (I should have paid more attention to Margo, who correctly described Loewenstein as “Webdiary’s very own F2 trainee”). Seems Antony may have over-sold things a little by claiming he wrote “a weekly column for the SMH on media and current affairs issues”, when his column apparently didn’t run in the print edition ...

UPDATE. Reader debo notices this in Antony’s bio:


He reckons it’s not always easy being an Australian trapped in a universalist’s body, especially when you’ve got a penchant for dissent.

And Evil Pundit replies:


I think the dope actually meant to say he was “a universalist trapped in an Australian’s body”, but got it the wrong way around.

Looks that way, doesn’t it?

UPDATE II. Zoe Brain in comments:

Careful of the “X trapped in a Y body” jokes, please.

Or I’ll bat my eyelids and burst into tears.

Posted by Tim B. on 09/07/2005 at 01:52 AM
  1. "I should have paid more attention to Margo"

    Wash ya mouth out with soap!

    Posted by ekb87 on 2005 09 07 at 03:11 AM • permalink

  2. Confusing a print publication with one of its websites! That should put you in illustrious company on Media Watch.

    Posted by slatts on 2005 09 07 at 03:25 AM • permalink

  3. His bio adds:

    He reckons it’s not always easy being an Australian trapped in a universalist’s body, especially when you’ve got a penchant for dissent.

    What the heck is a “universalist”? And just how does one dissent anything?

    Posted by debo.v2 on 2005 09 07 at 04:20 AM • permalink

  4. Well obviously he’s gone a few steps beyond globalist. He is at one with all those Andromeda galaxy inhabitants and even further afield.

    And now I think of it its about time we lowered import barriers to other planets, star systems and galaxies.

    Posted by Francis H on 2005 09 07 at 04:53 AM • permalink

  5. I think the dope actually meant to say he was “a universalist trapped in an Australian’s body”, but got it the wrong way around.

    What a dope.

    Posted by Evil Pundit on 2005 09 07 at 04:55 AM • permalink

  6. Evil:

    Unless, of course, he is from outer space.

    It’s too soon to rule anything out…

    Posted by david on 2005 09 07 at 04:56 AM • permalink

  7. Antony Lowontotempolestein.

    Posted by blogstrop on 2005 09 07 at 06:51 AM • permalink

  8. ..Australian trapped in a universalist’s body

    He’s an hermaphrodite?

    Posted by walterplinge on 2005 09 07 at 07:09 AM • permalink

  9. Mr Universe?

    Posted by crash on 2005 09 07 at 09:28 AM • permalink

  10. debo — A universalist wants to surrender to Kodos and Kang if they ever land here…

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 09 07 at 10:12 AM • permalink

  11. Careful of the “X trapped in a Y body” jokes, please.

    Or I’ll bat my eyelids and burst into tears.

    Hey! I can do that now! Hot Dog!.... Nah. Still a Geek. A Geek Girl now, but a Geek. And still a RWDB.

    But seriously folks..... a lot of people in that position end up killing themselves, estimates run as high as 50%.

    Not our Anthony L. though. And even I wouldn’t wish that on him, pleasant though the thought might be to contemplate.

    Posted by Zoe Brain on 2005 09 07 at 10:41 AM • permalink

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