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Re: Seminar Report: political blogging at the Houses of Parliament

Adam Tinworth — Wed, 16 Jul 2003 03:24:13 -0000

How odd. The guys from semizdata were there and spoke quite a bit in the Q&A session at the end.

Re: Why hunting?

Adam Tinworth — Wed, 16 Jul 2003 03:32:32 -0000

I'm profoundly glad to hear it.

However, I'm pretty sure that the terribly low profile of that news versus the extremely high profile of the fox hunting debate tells us that there's more than concerns about animal cruelty at play here.

Re: Seminar Report: political blogging at the Houses of Parliament

Adam Tinworth — Wed, 16 Jul 2003 03:33:09 -0000

Ah-ha. It is there - link posted in a new entry.

Re: Property, profits and my job

Adam Tinworth — Wed, 16 Jul 2003 07:17:13 -0000

I'll see what I can root out once I've got these peasky page proofs back to the subs desk.

Re: Other Seminar Reports

Adam Tinworth — Mon, 21 Jul 2003 09:32:43 -0000

Ah. Yes. Good point.

There's no subs to blame for making the error, either. Blast.

Who says that journalists get over-reliant on their sub-editors? :-)

Re: Is the cult of the individual eating society alive?

Adam Tinworth — Mon, 18 Aug 2003 07:06:51 -0000

Well, yes. You're just repeating my point. :-)

Re: Is the cult of the individual eating society alive?

Adam Tinworth — Wed, 20 Aug 2003 12:37:28 -0000

I do find that slightly bizarre, as I didn't at any point talk about what society wants or needs. I did give a definition of society - a structure designed to allow people to enjoy their freedom, while respecting the rights of others - but I didn't talk about it as if it was something that had its own needs.

Do you think that the word "society" is more loaded for you than for me?

Re: Credit where credit's due

Adam Tinworth — Thu, 28 Aug 2003 05:47:58 -0000

I think expecting journalists to know "netiquette" is a little optimitic, as it is for most net users these days. It's just another one of those conventions that has been drowned in the flood of mass adoption.

That said, it did make me think about my own attitude to sources. It's all too easy to treat them with too much contempt, simply because we get bombarded with material from PRs and thus tend to think of our role as one of picking and choosing the best. Also, many journalists tend to give more weight to things they're discovered for themselves, rather than things that are given to them - but that's fodder for another post.

Re: BBC archive to be online?

Adam Tinworth — Thu, 28 Aug 2003 09:44:20 -0000

Yes, I've been mulling over that article since I read it this morning. I think the most interesting comment is buried towards the end of the piece. I'll post about it shortly.

Re: Taking Notes

Adam Tinworth — Sat, 13 Sep 2003 05:26:18 -0000

You're quite right. After I wrote that piece, some months ago now, it was revealed that Gilligan was actually using a Psion.

Re: Quiet during the storm

Adam Tinworth — Mon, 22 Sep 2003 07:01:52 -0000

The distribution is predominantly UK and Europe, but if you drop me an e-mail with your address, I'll make sure you get a copy when it publishes.

Re: Sheffield Photos

Adam Tinworth — Thu, 25 Sep 2003 10:15:51 -0000

Now, that's an interesting thought...

Re: Handbags at Dawn cancelled

Adam Tinworth — Wed, 01 Oct 2003 11:40:07 -0000

Now, my Tiscali-using French friend, you are aware that I am, in fact, British, aren't you? No?

Oh, dear. You clearly haven't learnt "piglish" very well.

Re: Is every journalist a frustrated novelist?

Adam Tinworth — Fri, 03 Oct 2003 10:59:51 -0000

Fair enough - it still gave me the chance to scribble about something that had been bubbling away at the back of my brain.

Thanks! :-)

Re: Sacked war reporter found dead

Adam Tinworth — Fri, 10 Oct 2003 07:19:55 -0000

Well, I'm obviously a little biased, being a journalist myself...

Martin Bell wrote an interesting piece in The Independent, though, highlighting the particular pressures on TV news reporters in the UK these days:

http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=450714

Re: White Wolf vrs Sony: the Underworld conflict

Adam Tinworth — Thu, 16 Oct 2003 08:28:20 -0000

These sort of cases happen all the time. WW are small enough fry that I doubt any newspaper will find it significant. If WW win, well then the papers might be interested.

Re: Sign of fallenness

Adam Tinworth — Thu, 30 Oct 2003 20:17:25 -0000

It's an interesting thought. Many churches here in the UK seems more concerned with the upkeep of their historic buildings that the day to day business of being a Christian. Sometimes that legacy of our past, of the vast numbers of Christians giving money to build the church in an architectural sense have created a burden for this generation. We desperatly try to maintain what our ancestors gave us, a struggle which can divert us from more neccessary pursuits.

Re: Reviews, Opinions & Screeching Howler Monkeys

Adam Tinworth — Sun, 02 Nov 2003 18:33:23 -0000

""It's can't be wrong."

Let's all Mock Adam, children."

Uh...that was intentional. Parody of typical online froth.

Re: Reviews, Opinions & Screeching Howler Monkeys

Adam Tinworth — Mon, 03 Nov 2003 04:08:05 -0000

Hurts in what way?

Re: The popular vote? Support Tony Martin

Adam Tinworth — Sat, 03 Jan 2004 16:19:32 -0000

I disagree. You're falling into the same fallacy most people do: that this is all about the right to kill people who enter your house with criminal intent. It's not. It's about the right to defend you and yours without having to hold back for fear of being dragged through the courts if you seriously hurt the intruder.

However, I agree that better policing would go some way towards alleviating the issue. In the Martin case, his house was broken into repeatedly and the police seemed powerless to stop it, eventually driving him to the lengths he went to.

Re: Bah and, indeed, Humbug

Adam Tinworth — Sat, 03 Jan 2004 16:22:03 -0000

Oh, it's not a defence for him, if he is guilty. It's just a justification for putting him into a secure psychiatric unit rather than a standard prison. Oh, and a plea for us to examine our own role in his fall.

Re: Missed Call of Cthulhu

Adam Tinworth — Sun, 11 Jan 2004 10:34:26 -0000

Y'know, despite the fact that I've been writing RPGs for half a decade, I've never actually played D&D. Shocking, huh?

Re: It didn't take long

Adam Tinworth — Sat, 17 Jan 2004 09:26:33 -0000

I don't think anyone would seriously disagree with you. On the other hand, the way the legislation is being treated at the moment, the police are more likely to arrest a householder who attacked an intruder than the intruder himself and the householder - the crime victim - spends longer in prison than the crime perpetrator. That is ludicrous.

Using disproportionate force is wrong, yes. But when the measure of that is "could he have been stopped with less force" and not "was the householder just doing what was appropriate at the time?", then the balance of protection has fallen too far towards the criminal instead of the victim.

Re: Climbing The Tower

Adam Tinworth — Fri, 23 Jan 2004 11:23:58 -0000

I hope he means ?500 per square metre rather than per square foot. The record London commercial rent is between ?70 and ?80 per sq ft. His figure would require a huge leap in an off-pitch location.

Re: Hutton Speaks...

Adam Tinworth — Wed, 28 Jan 2004 09:47:53 -0000

He's had the nickname "Teflon" for quite a while now, and it becaomes increasingly apparent why.