The news over on WADDYA and The Untrusted is that Matt Seaton is sliding sideways or downwards or otherwise from his wobbly little pinnacle of editor - or something - over at CiF.
Hoo-fucking-ray!
It might even have tempted me to go back there under yet another cunning disguise, but he has so successfully ruined the place that I cannot actually imagine wanting to do so.
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ReplyDeleteAn opportunity has arisen amongst the world's foremost online loss-making media organisation. You will be a visioneer, an Oxbridge-educated cyclist who can deliver bottom-line value while plucking low-hanging fruit. Creative and dynamic, you like to encourage healthy debate that agrees with our editorial standpoint and helps informs those who are wrong exactly why they are wrong.
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Let's not cheer too loudly until we get the measure of the replacement. You'd think that no-one could be as short-fused,contemptuous of his customers, partisan,inconsistent and capricious, nor operate such double-standards as Mr Seaton, but the Guardian has surprised (and not in a good way) before...
ReplyDeleteDefinitely an interesting development....
ReplyDeleteHowever, this...... [*]
is the sound of me not holding my breath, although we can but hope.
Keep up the good work though!!
Alisdair and James
ReplyDeleteAgree completely, I'm afraid.
It's a bit like the promises and pretended intentions of the New Tories and LibDems to repeal or otherwise scrutinise and amend the New Labour legislation of public oppression and control.
Once they - assuming either or both win and topple New Labour, which the Ciderati promised - have been told what the filthy public could do if left to its own devices, they will not reduce the powers of the state, but simply add to them.
Whoever steps into Seaton's clumpy, clodhopping, bigfoot shoes, they will continue to stomp on the subversives to the shrieking applause of the luvvies and the grinning dribblers.
A bit like the teacher of a class of infants slapping gold stars onto a notice-board to keep the little creatures in line, CiF dangles the promise of a blue sticker and the chance to say: "Look at me, Mum, I'm on The Guardian!"
When I wrote to Seaton about being banned he replied about the decisions of the moderators:
ReplyDelete"we don't get involved in their day-to-day operational decisions."
Does anyone believe this and if not, what proof exists?
You say Atomboy -
"A bit like the teacher of a class of infants slapping gold stars onto a notice-board to keep the little creatures in line, CiF dangles the promise of a blue sticker and the chance to say: "Look at me, Mum, I'm on The Guardian!"
Given that anyone can write thousands of words on CiF as a poster, is this really such a prize?
I agree with those who are saying let,s 'hold
ReplyDeletefire' until we see who the replacement is.Don,t
want to go from the frying pan into the fire!
Wonder if Giyus would be interested?
Meant to add earlier about the likely candidates
ReplyDeleteto replace Seaton.Does anyone have any idea
who they are?And is the vacancy more likely
to be filled in-house?
He's off to edit Guardian USA. They deserve eachother.
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ReplyDeleteWhen the oleaginous Seaton was first unveiled as Georgina Henry's replacement, I thought (fatuous ass that I am) that he might be OK-ish. My only evidence for this was that he was a fellow-cyclist. But a foto of his bike (an over-weight clunker with mudguards FFS) should have tipped me off.
ReplyDeleteAs it turned out, Sat-on was a fucking disaster of middle-class complacency, a boot-licker and fawner to power and wholly contemptuous of CiF's readership.
His defining moment (for me) was the James Purnell thread. A blizzard of deletions ensued, with everyone rightly pointing out that Purnell was an odious scumbag. Sat-on kept appearing BLT to insist that we treat the loathsome Purnell more respectfully. Says it all, really. Good riddance...