The perpetually thirsty Paul Staines and his obedient rabble
at the Guido Fawkes blog often claim to have “sources” for their dubiously crafted output. Staines himself once
pretended to be joking after he let slip that multiple sources might mean
asking one source more than once. But, sadly, all too often the Fawkes blog
just goes ahead with no sources at all.
Behold the usual level of accuracy
So yesterday afternoon came a post
claiming the demise of Political Scrapbook.
That would show Laurence Durnan and his fellow rotten lefties! This post was
based on there not having been any new material on Scrapbook for all of a week, well, OK, a week and a couple of days.
Of course, the Fawkes rabble could have checked first, but what the heck, there’s
that legendary nimbleness to consider, eh?
And so it came to pass that The Great Guido posted the
supposed end of Scrapbook at 1638
hours yesterday (note that the amateurish sticking of the Scrapbook logo onto a headstone has not even been modified to
provide perspective), and this came as news to everyone else, especially Durnan
and his pals. The Fawkes balloon remained airborne for precisely two hours and
one minute.
“Rumours
of our demise are greatly exaggerated” commented Scrapbook at 1839
hours, managing a more sensible placement of their logo as well. Sometimes one
cannot spend every waking hour posting, and especially when involved in the
press regulation debate, which the Fawkes folks ought to know because they
claim to also have been thus involved.
And in any case, The Great Guido has no room to call anyone
out for missing a day or two: most weekends, the only content on the Fawkes
blog is “Saturday Seven Up” and a
Sunday plug for their Sun column. The
Fawkes blog is almost exclusively a weekday only affair as regards new content.
And at least Scrapbook is not in hock
to the editors and proprietors of the Fourth Estate.
Still, it passes the time while waiting for the next command
from their new bosses. Another fine mess,
once again.
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