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Wild speculation at Crikey.
That’d be like buying a ticket for the Titanic 2 hours after it had left Southampton. Enjoy the trip.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 11 15 at 03:01 AM • permalinkWell? ::taps foot:: Do you loyal readers get a heads up?
You can use the cone of silence, the coughing code or the RWDB patented Parabolic Audio Code Organiser to let us know ;-)
In all seriousness, congratulations… I think.
—Nora
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2006 11 15 at 03:04 AM • permalinkIt could be a literal “welcome to the dark side”. The Fairfax building in Sydney is located right in the shadow of the proposed sunlight eating monster. In any case, if it’s good news for you, congrats.
Posted by ErnestBludger on 2006 11 15 at 03:15 AM • permalink#7 I’ll sign up for wild speculation rbresca.
I believe Tim is the long-hidden rightful heir to the News Limited empire and is just about to be presented with the opportunity to own outright a controlling interest in the SMH and The Age.
Uncle Rupert has recommended that Tim turn both these titles into his own playgrounds for the VRWC.
—Nora
Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2006 11 15 at 03:22 AM • permalinkMiranda Devine (not Divide) will finally have someone to eat lunch with.
The unemployment rate is just above 4% and still people take jobs with Fairfax. Strange world.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 11 15 at 03:24 AM • permalinkTim’s getting back with Imre on Radio National, five nights a week at 11pm.
Proposed show title - AHH SHADDUP, PHATSO.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 11 15 at 03:25 AM • permalinkI hoped they warmed up the wild speculum over at Crikey before they started probing.
You deserve everything you get, Tim, and I mean that sincerely…nyuk, nyuk.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 11 15 at 03:33 AM • permalinkQuite possibly, a move to Fairfax would piss everyone off - the inveterate RWDBs, the lefties (who would see it as a further contamination of the MSM by ‘extremists’), and ESPECIALLY Andrew Jaspan, ‘The Oompah Loompah in the editor’s chair’ at The Age.
On these grounds, I wholeheartedly support your move to Fairfax, Tim!
“I’m Tim Blair, welcome to Media Watch.”
“..and that sound you have just heard is that of dozens…hundreds ...thousands?.. of ABC luvvies throwing themselves off roofs. Tough shit. Lets look at this most recent column of Phat Admams…”
But Fairfax? Tim Blair - the inheritor of Web Diary’s heritage?
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 11 15 at 04:01 AM • permalinkWell it’s snowing in November.
Blair’s joining Fairfax.
I’ll bet when I get home the cat is giving the dog a fair dinkum rogering.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 11 15 at 04:05 AM • permalinkThe bloghead heading for woollier, more feral sheep/goats in bizarro branch msm-land?
Mate! I know things are a bit upside-downy in the world at present, but this would indicate that Fairfax recognise they are preaching to the largely unwashed and daggy fleeces, and want to add value by a wool sort, wash, comb and top operation.
Danger, Tim Blair, Danger! Before you know it you’ll be wrapped up tighter than Frodo Baggins in She-Lob’s Lair, in the warp and weft of the loony left.Last time Miranda and I corresponded she reckoned that “The SMH is a nest of vipers”. Still, if the dough’s alright and you can work from home without actually having to eyeball fucking Ramsay, Horin and Carlton, well, just be careful what a stint at Fairfax might look like on your resume.
Obviously this is all just mischievious fun and speculation. Really you’re off to front Media Watch…
PW - you say that like it’s a bad thing.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 11 15 at 04:32 AM • permalinkMark Steyn wrote once that if you mix a quart of dog turd with a quart of ice cream, it tastes more like the former than the latter (I’ll take his word on that one).
Tim - if you are off to UNfairFax, I hope you are the dog turd in their ice cream.
Posted by manbag's bagman on 2006 11 15 at 04:39 AM • permalinkStrewth, if Tim goes to Fairfax, the Friday afternoon sundowners would be a thing of beauty. RWDB vs ancient lefty gang, all in a grog soaked haze.
You could sell tickets, more fun than the Coliseum in Nero’s day!
Timmy, ensure that expensive wine is in the contarct that you haven’t signed.
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2006 11 15 at 05:12 AM • permalinkAhem, that would be contract, but that’s why my nick is “the Ignorant”. Perview is my fiend.
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2006 11 15 at 05:15 AM • permalinkI just heard from an ultra-reliable source (Terry Lane) that Tim has taken Margo K as a lover for life in a bizzare bondage ritual and she has dragged (or drugged) him over to the dark side.
So you know its true!
Posted by curious george on 2006 11 15 at 06:37 AM • permalinkWild speculation?
“Tim Blair, do you take Margo Kingston, to be your lawfully wedded….”
“Wake up, Wake up! It was a just a dream.”
“....or WAS IT!”(insert overly-dramatic scary music)
Posted by Quentin George on 2006 11 15 at 06:47 AM • permalinkA counterpoint to Tim Lambert on news.com.au, I could believe.
Isn’t it Tim Dunlop at news.com.au. Tim Lambert exists in his own little world.
Posted by Quentin George on 2006 11 15 at 06:48 AM • permalink#16 Infidel Tiger
I’ll bet when I get home the cat is giving the dog a fair dinkum rogering.
Did you leave your dog uncovered?
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2006 11 15 at 07:12 AM • permalinkMan, I need to move to Australia. All we have for laughs is Katie Couric.
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2006 11 15 at 07:50 AM • permalinkTim, if you’re going to write a column for Fairfax, I can tell you now that I will be strong and will not buy their paper just so I can read you - there’s absolutely no way I want to boost their circulation. I have principles you know.
However, I have no problems stealing a copy from some hippy.
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2006 11 15 at 08:28 AM • permalinkan aussie version of “top gear” might be the go.
I also reckon a Bolt and Blair weekly newsround up on say a Friday night would be humourous and controversial enough to cut it on commercial telly. Sure would wind up the lefties like I don’t know what. Probably pull a pretty lucrative demographic too. Something for Eddie Maguire to think about.
Posted by the nailgun on 2006 11 15 at 09:16 AM • permalink#46 the nailgun. Why Eddie Maguire? Surely the ABC would snap it up.
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2006 11 15 at 09:23 AM • permalinkWild speculation? Alright, it involes ABC but it’s not Media Watch. I have it on good authority that the Glass House hasn’t been cancelled. The producers have decided that the hosts were crap and is getting Tim as the new host, to be joined by the zanier of his blog commentators each week (by zanier that means you all get a turn!
Well, I hate to rain on your parade, but I wouldn’t be supportive of you moving your blog to Fairfax. I would, however, be glad to see you write a column while keeping your current blog separate and independent. This thing is a piece of art. You’ll never be able to replicate it.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 11 15 at 09:39 AM • permalinkWhat? Tim Blair blogging for Fairfax?!? Wouldn’t that mean Detective Paco would have to become an investigator for the Environmental Protection Agency? Or for some superannuated congressional committee kept alive only by pork barrel politics, like, say, the House Subcommittee on U-Boat Activity in Chesapeake Bay? Time to hang up the fedora and the stainless steel Ruger Police Service-Six, see Sheila off to her mother’s at the railway station, and potter around the yard tending to the geraniums, I suppose.
“I’m Tim Blair, welcome to Media Watch.”
< Cries tears of Joy… >
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 11 15 at 12:01 PM • permalinkAn aussie version of “top gear” might be the go.
Yeah. SHIT YEAH!
#51, Tim, hold out for $20m a year - you’re worth at least twice as much as Sol Trujillo and contribute 100 times more than he to the well-being of the nation. - Ubique
Tim, If your worth less than the Mexican, may God help us all. (I own Telstra shares…)
This thing is a piece of art. You’ll never be able to replicate it. - The Dark Lord Karl’s Primary Minion
Seconded.
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 11 15 at 12:13 PM • permalinkNice try, Tim, but do you expect us to believe that Bob Ellis will authorise your employment at Fairfax?
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 11 15 at 05:05 PM • permalink#44 ArtV is right Tim.
I will quite happily watch you on TV, even the (shudder) ABC. I subscribed to Bulletin because you were there, but don’t ask me spend another cent on a Fairfax product.
Hmmmm….devious plans hatching.
More haircuts so I can catch up on the newspapers at the barber’s? No — not enough hair left for that.
Got it! Rather than stealing off hippies, I’ll get my neighbour to put his newspapers in my recycle bin. That will make room in his bin for all the other crap he buys.Fairfax homes are fantastic (new south head road, Bellevue Hill I went for a sticky beak at one yesterday.(nat trust).
If you are to blogg at fairfun the newspaper ship, tell Georgia Lewis smh with radar, to stop drinking in Saudia Arabia and come back to cocktail hour here in Oz.
Corr tim, set your own media empire up, become an eric beecher.
Does this mean you will be cutting and running from the blogmire to cut and paste at Margo’s old workstation?
Say it isn’t so, my Islamodunce. You can’t abandon your post just when the Iraqi people are crying out for your leadership. The IDF needs you most to stay the course. Who will protect us from Reuters now?
But, seriously. Jesus H. Christ, Blogfuhrer—why would you blog, of all things, at Fairfucks? Aren’t the “think tanks” funnelling enough cash thru to you? Aren’t the craven blogsheep keeping the wolves from the door?
Have you joined the MEAA yet, oh great and revered Pharoah of Irony?
Posted by Miranda Divide on 2006 11 16 at 07:39 PM • permalink
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You wouldn’t be treating the folks at Crikey and the Age like mushrooms would you Tim?