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Guardian Seethes, Whines
2005-07-23
Short version: Guardian lets Muslim trainee write an editorial on the July 7 London bombings. Blogger discovers trainee is member of radical Islamist organization. The Independent picks up the story. Trainee eventually fired. Guardian publishes strange sour grapes editorial:
Rightwing bloggers from the US, where the Guardian has a large online following, were behind the targeting last week of a trainee Guardian journalist who wrote a comment piece which they did not care for about the London bombings. The story is a demonstration of the way the 'blogosphere' can be used to mount obsessively personalised attacks at high speed.

Scott Burgess, a blogger from New Orleans who recently moved to London, spends his time indoors posting repeated attacks on the Guardian...He pitched into Mr [Dilpazier] Aslam, who as it happened, beat him to the traineeship on the Guardian.
There's much, much more, far more petulant than that. Burgess applied to the Guardian traineeship as a joke, figuring [correctly] that his political views were unlikely to get him a slot. I'll send you to Biased BBC, which has a link-filled round-up of the matter. Who's got the sour grapes graphic?
Posted by:Angie Schultz

#3  For which paper does Robert Fisk write again? ;-) Of course they are sensitive about bloggers fact checking their stories!
Posted by: trailing wife   2005-07-23 19:38  

#2  spends his time indoors posting

LOL! Fleet St never changes, I like that, at least there's some honesty.
Posted by: Shipman   2005-07-23 15:52  

#1  sour grapes make lousy whine.
Posted by: Captain America   2005-07-23 15:22  

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