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Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Is the email working at the Indy? The phones definitely seem to be playing up, last time Guido called to talk to Andy Grice the line went dead. So just in case Guido's email to him on Monday went astray, here it is for him to read here:
From Guy Fawkes
To a.grice@independent.co.uk
Date Oct 22, 2007 12:52 PM
Subject Hi ya

Andy,

Obviously this issue about the recycled FCO briefing is of great interest. I have two quick questions.

Could you give me an on the record quote as to how you independently verified the truth of the FCO briefing?

Can you confirm that you have never recycled for publication a press briefing verbatim in the past?

--
Guido Fawkes Esq.
Of course if another example of Grice recycling press briefings and passing it off as journalism were to be found, it would be a bit of a personal disaster for his reputation and credibility. He wouldn't have done that, would he?

Incidentally, in the U.S. the National Review has picked up on Indy-gate. Well, you know how stuffy Americans can be about journalistic integrity.

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

perhaps he has better things to do than reply to someone as unimportant as you?

vervet said...

They definitely could have phone problems .... cut-off due to unpaid bills perhaps.

Cover price raised 65p > 70p > 80p within a few months - that's up 23%.

The water is spinning and the plughole looms ?

Ego-stroking sock puppet. said...

But strangely The Indy seems to think Guido is important.

#36 in The Top 50 Newsmakers

Anonymous said...

lol SURELY you wouldn't have something else up your sleeve here Guido?

He'd have to come clean pretty quick if you did, if he wanted his job!

Anonymous said...

YES ! Cameron gets a good free kick with the topic of School Surpluses !!!

Anonymous said...

Don't be silly Guido. How often do journalists bother to verify the truth of press briefings. If it suits them they will always accept the statements at face value.

Anonymous said...

Brown is totally rattled !!!

john@scribblesheet said...

Haven't journalists been rehashing press releases for years? Nothing new, but we best call them out on it. Better yet, how about some fisking!

bing crosby's stunt double said...

Who wrote up their 100 Reasons to Love the EU front page for them?

simon said...

Who really gives a fu*k what The Independent says about anything. It went down the toilet round about 1999! It has been total shite ever since!

Brownbadger said...

guido,

He can't answer until the FCO tell him what to say!

While I'm on, I know this bores you, but it looks as if Brown's red lines are being breached already.

There is an EU proposal for a Blue card giving anybody European citizenship if they can show they have worked for 5 years.

Nulab say unlikely to be ratified by UK as immigration is one of Brown's Red lines. But if after 5 years they are given citizenship, they can come in anyway as EU citizens.

First of the thin red lines breached??

How many to go??

Freddy said...

Guido, there is a lot more fun to be had with dead-tree press mindlessly recycling press releases , if you feel so inclined.
The overwhelming example would be anything to do with the global warming scam, particularly, of course, the Independent.
If anyone knows how to get their hands on the press releases that get sent out by Friends of the Earth or Greenpeace, I'd bet that the Independent is largely copy-typing them.

Thomas Gordon said...

freddy

"I'd bet that the Independent is largely copy-typing them."

You bet-And the health fascist shit can only come from the Minister of Death-A Johnston esq.

bollock watch said...

Iain Murray sounds like an interesting chap. BTW it was a blog on the National Review where Murray's article was posted.


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