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Leftoid US group blog Firedoglake hires a press secretary:
I’m excited to announce that Siun is going to join the FDL team as our new Press Secretary. Many will know her as a valued member of the FDL community and also for her work handling press for Yearly Kos. She’s also a good friend and I’m really looking forward to having her on board, so please put your hands together and welcome her in the comments.
It’s kind of difficult to type a welcoming note when your hands are together. Perhaps Secretary Siun—who appears to be wearing a prison uniform—could alert her masters to this.
(Via Daniel Glover and Instapundit, who seem unimpressed by Firedoglake’s innovative hire. The concept of staffed blogs is nothing new; Treacher has Puce, and I’ve still got Tran and Mbongo, I think, somewhere. And don’t forget Webdiary, with its society-altering team of transition managers, comments managers, official historians, archivists ...)
doglake say TRUETH Unite Sate as Fashust
Posted by Jim Treacher on 2006 09 03 at 12:25 PM • permalinkAnd don’t forget Webdiary, with its society-altering team of transition managers, comments managers, official historians, archivists ...
I think you forgot their bold-formatting use editors and italicists.
Posted by Major John on 2006 09 03 at 12:27 PM • permalinkI looked in vain for a first or a last name for the lady; does she go only by ``Siun’‘?
Posted by Sonetka's Mom on 2006 09 03 at 12:32 PM • permalinkPerhaps Secretary Siun—who appears to be wearing a prison uniform
Have y’all checked out the link and seen the photo? I’ll tell you what scares me. In a sympathetic piece, a publication is going to run the most flattering photograph it can take. Jowl-ey and sneering is the best they could get? Bearing this in mind, I’d hate to see a shot of Siun on an ordinary day - let alone the morning after a vat or two of organic, preservative-free, sulfur dioxide-reduced Chardonnay. Oh, brother.
Posted by James Waterton on 2006 09 03 at 01:48 PM • permalinkCrap. That was me. I even used the pushbutton formatting - must have inadvertently deleted a bracket somewhere there. Sorry, Andrea…*flinches*
Posted by James Waterton on 2006 09 03 at 01:51 PM • permalinkCrap. That was me. I even used the pushbutton formatting - must have inadvertently deleted a bracket somewhere there.
See there. If Secretary Siun were here instead of there, this wouldn’t have happened. Ok, maybe it would have. But at least she could address the mobs of reporters who are clamoring to get a statement from this blog on the spilt italics. I mean, you just have to have a Press Secretary.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 09 03 at 02:44 PM • permalinkI fixed the italics. Also your quote was on the same paragraph with the rest of your sentence, so it went to small font, so I fixed that too. This is a template glitch. To prevent this happening, put the quote on its own paragraph (hit the enter key twice after the end quote tag to make a paragraph break).
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 09 03 at 03:14 PM • permalinkFiredoglake? Firedoglake??
Never heard of them, or visited their site ... until now. Obviously not that cutting edge.
Now, real Candians visiting this site will probably already have avoided the “cutting-edge” leftoid Canadian site:
RABBLE.CAIt has all the usual suspects but may provide some amusement to those of Antipodean origin, unfamiliar with our own masterbatery left. (I was going to say “self-masterbatery left” but realized that it was redundant).
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 09 03 at 04:15 PM • permalinkI’ve seen that sullen, angry face a thousand times at marches for ‘peace and love’. Siun orter fit right in over there.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 09 03 at 05:25 PM • permalink...who seem unimpressed by Firedoglake’s innovative hire…
And what I’ve read of and at Jane Hamsher and her collective blog, there’s very little to be impressed by, period.
Hmmmmm…..it’s possible that Jane is an up-and-coming Margo. Time to start hoarding bolds and italics, people!!!
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 09 03 at 07:55 PM • permalinkPartly off-topic, but did we ever get any results from any of those “people’s inquiry” investigations at Webdiary - with their multi-person staffs?
Just one such inquiry required:
A judge or lawyer to head the thing up
Witness interviewers
Hotline staffers and lead follow-upers
Database compilers
More lawyers
Website builders, designers and maintainers
A management team (loved Tim’s reply, “Anybody got any experience herding cats?”)Apparently, they also needed some Dogalog translators, too.
Anyway, I guess that’s what happens when a blog gets ahead of itself. The disconnect from the real world, and lack of understanding of the practicalities of running a blog, in Margo’s case, was truly stunning. We’ll see where firedoglake goes.
... did we ever get any results from any of those “people’s inquiry” investigations at Webdiary - with their multi-person staffs?
I just choked on my Pepsi, thankyouverymuch. Oh yes, I do seem to recall that. Much concerted action was planned. I would imagine John Howard was more than a little concerned over it.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 09 03 at 09:32 PM • permalink#27. Hell, I’d look unhappy too if the only job I could get (with US unemployment at 4.7%!!) was flogging failed leftoid talking points to the press. For all their “living wage” rhetoric, these jokers don’t even pay Federal minimum wage.
Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2006 09 04 at 02:04 PM • permalink
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