tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881762807913180318.post1023732272415283609..comments2024-01-23T16:53:02.428+00:00Comments on Mark Thompson: Derek Draper is damaging the blogosphereMark Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00744387583593537268noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881762807913180318.post-52849103740475178132009-04-01T12:47:00.000+01:002009-04-01T12:47:00.000+01:00Labour's credibility will drop further if they pic...Labour's credibility will drop further if they pick him, (or it looks like thay have picked him as the face of New Labour) <BR/><BR/>From people I have spoken to outside of the blogosphere and journalistic and political clique, they say Draper is rude, arrogant and quite simply a buffoon. And they support a wide range of Parties. So DD should either hand it over to someone else - or clean up his act.Plentyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06205851616053056137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881762807913180318.post-4597769627835612992009-03-31T23:06:00.000+01:002009-03-31T23:06:00.000+01:00Clive - I take your first point. Perhaps I should ...Clive - I take your first point. Perhaps I should have been more specific. I meant the UK political blogosphere which is the subset on the Venn diagram he is trying to be a part of.<BR/><BR/>I never said that Draper started the race to the bottom but he is a clear example of a political party trying and failing to "get" blogging. Staines has his own style which I personally do not follow but at least he is honest and consistent about what he is and does. As for Dorries, I don't read her blog regularly but I know what she is like. She is not however, as far as I know spun by central office which is my point about Labourlist.Mark Thompsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00744387583593537268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881762807913180318.post-68107375884873907162009-03-31T21:47:00.000+01:002009-03-31T21:47:00.000+01:00I agree with most of what you say. However, the th...I agree with most of what you say. However, the think tank Centre for Social Justice claims to be independent, yet Jonathan Aitken had to be approved by the Tory Party to chair the working group on penal reform.jailhouselawyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03795278184797990706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881762807913180318.post-15302565256968165162009-03-31T20:44:00.000+01:002009-03-31T20:44:00.000+01:00Your claim that Draper is damaging the blogosphere...Your claim that Draper is damaging the blogosphere fails on two counts. Firstly the "blogosphere" is more than just a collection of UK political blogs. Too many UK political bloggers seem to forget that their community is just a small part of a huge, pan-global sprawl of good, bad and indifferent outpourings on a broad spectrum of topics.<BR/><BR/>And secondly, your claim gives Draper far too much credit. In terms of quality of debate there seems to have been a popularist race for the bottom which Draper has joined, but did not start.<BR/><BR/>Sure, LabourList is at its best a dire effort, but try the comment threads on Paul Staine's blog. How about trying to get your head round some of Nadine Dorries blog entries? No one part of the political spectrum has any monopoly on bad blogging.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05248641830080088359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881762807913180318.post-31759831603179550612009-03-31T20:43:00.000+01:002009-03-31T20:43:00.000+01:00Shame on you. Labourlist is the very model of impa...Shame on you. Labourlist is the very model of impartial debate.<BR/><BR/>It is of the people, by the people, for the people.<BR/><BR/>Just like Pravda was.Bill Quango MPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14861116614665461655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881762807913180318.post-57247806170626889732009-03-31T15:16:00.000+01:002009-03-31T15:16:00.000+01:00Labour's perversity is pitiful.Labour claims to ha...Labour's perversity is pitiful.<BR/><BR/>Labour claims to have editorial discretion, but feels it necessary to actively refute the need for accountability when the terms of that discretion are placed under a microscope!<BR/><BR/>That's worse than censorship - that's ignoring reality!Oranjepanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08150901449640162740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881762807913180318.post-63646704835676124372009-03-31T13:43:00.000+01:002009-03-31T13:43:00.000+01:00Hello "labour", or should I say Derek?Of course yo...Hello "labour", or should I say Derek?<BR/><BR/>Of course you have the right to publish what you want, when you want. In the same way as myself and other's have the right to interpret what you do and don't publish as being consistent with being a Labour Party puppet site that tries to squash dissent and appears to delete comments that do not feed into your "narrative".<BR/><BR/>Unfortunately that is not what the blogosphere is about.<BR/><BR/>Would you care to defend your behaviour on the media in the last few days after you pledged to try harder? I have never seen Andrew Neil tell someone to "shut up" before.Mark Thompsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00744387583593537268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881762807913180318.post-79360486454387133842009-03-31T13:35:00.000+01:002009-03-31T13:35:00.000+01:00Or, perhaps, we choose to publish things when we t...Or, perhaps, we choose to publish things when we think they would feed well into our narrative or the news agenda?<BR/><BR/>It's simple editorial discretion. Iain Dale simply does not have a right to tell LL when to publish posts...Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00749050794056089314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881762807913180318.post-82009272339456337212009-03-31T12:20:00.000+01:002009-03-31T12:20:00.000+01:00When I load this page I get:A username and passwor...When I load this page I get:<BR/><BR/>A username and password are being requested by http://broganblog.dailymail.co.uk. The site says: "Protected"LibCynchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13025602133865137272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3881762807913180318.post-48023692385794518552009-03-31T10:39:00.000+01:002009-03-31T10:39:00.000+01:00I get the sense that Draper's idea of 'non-mainstr...I get the sense that Draper's idea of 'non-mainstream' is John Prescott - after all he's no longer a cabinet minister.<BR/><BR/>Ken Livingstone is and always will be a dangerous radical, obviously!Oranjepanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08150901449640162740noreply@blogger.com