Comments on: Nick Cohen’s half empty glass

By: Dave Cole

Dave Cole — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:16:46 +0000

I honestly don’t know, Dave, but I go back to the argument I made in my post – there’s no such thing as blogging. I don’t think blogging will develop in any one way. I’m increasingly of the opinion that blogging was done a disservice by its first ‘star’ being Paul Staines, leading to lots of people starting to blog on politics thinking that gossip, rumour and willy-waving were the way to do it. Hopefully, people will grow out of that a bit.

By: Dave Semple

Dave Semple — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:45:51 +0000

How do you think it will develop Dave? I mean the quantity of blogs and blog readers has been increasing, slowly, but it can’t go on indefinitely – and the internet is not universally available in any case.

By: Dave Cole

Dave Cole — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:29:02 +0000

Not much of a paraphrase, to be honest.

I think I agree with Cohen on newspapers, but he’s flat wrong on blogs; firstly, it’s a developing medium and secondly he just ignores inconvenient facts.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:16:05 +0000

Yeah but the growth of international socialism has its limits, Hadleigh. It can’t go to France. Be sensible.

By: Hadleigh Roberts

Hadleigh Roberts — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:34:14 +0000

Not only do I cover “outside of London” I do events “outside of Britain.”

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:20:52 +0000

Paul S

I think he’s agreeing with you that journos don’t go to select committees or take any notice of them any more.

By: Sunny H

Sunny H — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 03:51:27 +0000

You’re just looking for an argument aren’t you? Paul? eh? Bloody socialists – always looking for a fight…

By: Paul Sagar

Paul Sagar — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:40:03 +0000

fucking hell why can’t i spell “decent” properly this week. That’s about the 5th time.

By: Paul Sagar

Paul Sagar — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:39:34 +0000

Paul,

Another point to make: Nick Cohen is talking out of his arse if he thinks journalists still cover select committee debates.

Maybe in the 1970s. Not anymore.

Political correspondents in westminster are a dying breed. When I worked there it was a fricking joke. Christ, part of my job was to go on hansard, copy and paste the things my MP had said, and then email it to lazy journalists in a snazzed-up press release that they’d pay attention to.

Otherwise, nothing.

Now, I was conscientious and my MP a thoroughly descent bloke. But if we’d been, say, Tories, we could have told the press anything we bollocking well liked and they’d have swallowed it.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:57:33 +0000

Sunny

I’m sorry, I can’t agree with you there.