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Going to This Important Website will Help the Australian People rescue Democracy. On that note:
“I’m in that space again where I’m bogged down processing lots of comments and can’t get time to write,” complains Margo Kingston. How must her bosses feel? They’re paying Margo $4000 per month to jerk around with e-mail. (If it keeps her from writing, that might be money well spent.) So far this month Margo has slapped 22 posts on the Webdiary site, all of them by unpaid contributors, and all of them useless; each one has earned Margo $105, based on her monthly salary.
This leaves Margo free to thrash about in her own comments threads like a flail tank. They’re a proud bunch at Webdiary; here’s Margonaut Tony Phillips:
Murdoch has long eyed the Net with suspicion ... However perhaps he’s now realising that [Murdoch] can be served better by more internet presence. He (more likely the minions reporting to him) may even have spotted Webdiary and noted its potential. Perhaps Tim Blair is about to offered a lucrative contract, or perhaps Imre. After all Murdoch fulfills his mission statement primarily via the reinforcement of prejudice and ignorance ...
Imagine a Murdoch minion pointing out Webdiary’s potential to the News Corp chairman. Imagine that person 30 seconds afterwards, clearing his desk.
UPDATE. Margo would never be jailed in Zimbabwe:
“You are in here for committing journalism,” he said.
UPDATE II. The Sydney Morning Herald promotes Margo on its front page:
Margo Kingston: Bali busts - our road to a new form of fascism
But Margo didn’t write a word of that piece, which was e-mailed to Margo by unpaid Webdiary contributor Michael de Angelos.
I won’t be signing the important website…
“The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can’t get and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods.”[H. L. Mencken]
Can I have a contract to be a right wing gaming journo Mr Murdoch?
Posted by Aging Gamer on 2005 04 19 at 08:29 AM • permalinkThey’re paying Margo $4000 per month to jerk around with e-mail.
Dang. I’m obviously not charging enough…
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2005 04 19 at 09:25 AM • permalinkPixy misa — Trust me, scallions taste better…
Andrea — You’re not a crusading lefty, you’re not entitled . It’s hard to crusade against oppressive capitalism working a regular job…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 04 19 at 10:31 AM • permalinkImagine a Murdoch minion pointing out Webdiary’s potential to the News Corp chairman. Imagine that person 30 seconds afterwards, clearing his desk.
Wasn’t Bill Gates the same with the internet in the first few years, not fully understanding it, but genenrally hostile? Murdoch will one day realise its potential, then drop his hostility.
That’s it. That’s our tim. Nice, short, to the point comment. Funny. With an obligatory reference to something stupid Margo did. (Gosh, what would happen to this blog if Margo gave it up, because she was soooooooo tired).
That’s how you do a blog Tim D. Are you taking notes?
Posted by wronwright on 2005 04 19 at 11:11 AM • permalink‘webdairy’ - where all the contributing writers are milked. MOOOO!!
Posted by Lucky Nutsacks on 2005 04 20 at 01:24 AM • permalink
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