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- The mainstream media wouldn’t publish this story on the Guido Fawkes scandal, so we are - Sinister Burt June 22, 2019, 8:46 pm
- That's from The Canary btw (nm) - Sinister Burt June 22, 2019, 8:48 pm
Posted by Sinister Burt
on June 22, 2019, 8:46 pm
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Interesting story which some unnammed newspaper tried to edit before publishing, but the author refused and gave it to the canary (the reason for the edits is the interesting bit). On the doxing of one of the questioners in that 'Our Next PM' program. I didn't know about the original context of the offending tweet, though i'd heard the tweet quoted multiple times in the media (the one about giving nationalism a bad name), obviously being used to add to the general labour=racist trope - put in context it's so obviously sarcasm ripping on candace owens' idiotic statements on hitler - journalists must have to put a real effort in to miss context like that. Here's the context of the offending tweet given by the culprit: https://twitter.com/Aman_Sez/status/1141363004770062336 https://www.thecanary.co/opinion/2019/06/21/the-mainstream-media-wouldnt-publish-this-story-on-the-guido-fawkes-scandal-so-we-are/ Excerpts: "This story below is authored by Ally Fogg. It discusses the serious implications of the Guido Fawkes blog doxxing and denouncing an audience member on the BBC’s Our Next Prime Minister debate. It was originally published at Medium under the headline ‘The Aman Thakar scandal is the nadir of a digging & doxxing culture’. We are republishing here with the author’s permission, for reasons the author lays out in his own words below." ... [Comment from the author:] " "I don’t do much blogging/ hot-take-peddling these days, but it was something I felt strongly about & happily agreed. I submitted a piece. Shortly after, I was emailed back with a heavily edited version & asked for my consent to the edits. I had to say no, for one reason alone. "The edit had removed all criticisms of the mainstream media and professional journalists, who were, in my opinion, by far the biggest culprits in the story. We had some to & fro in search of a compromise but eventually had to agree to differ. "So, to cut to the chase, the article that didn’t appear is here, for you to peruse at your leisure. "The section that we disagreed about was primarily this. I offered to moderate the intemperate wording, but the issue was not the strength of the criticism, but any criticism at all." ... [context of the tweet:] "Within hours, the Guido Fawkes blog identified him as legal assistant Aman Thakar, a Labour Party activist who briefly worked at party HQ during 2018. They apparently trawled through his catalogue of social media posts and uncovered this Tweet: “Hitler’s abuse of the term nationalism is, to me a nationalist, the most harmful part of his legacy.” These words, turning a blind eye to the Holocaust and other crimes of the Nazi regime, were shocking enough that Thakar was immediately suspended from work. By the next morning, he was splashed across the front page of the Daily Mail, identified by name on BBC News, and featured prominently in pretty much every other national newspaper. Just another social media millennial, hoist on the petard of his own bigoted opinions? Well, no. Thakar is no anti-semite or Holocaust revisionist. As any journalist with a trace of professional diligence could have uncovered in seconds, the Tweet was a reply within a conversation about the alt-right student activist Candace Owens. Aman Thakar was parodying her remarks to highlight their toxic stupidity. Thakar, who never denied or hid his political allegiances or misrepresented himself to the BBC or anyone else, has now had his life and career ripped apart, been smeared as a Nazi-apologist and been dragged across the national press only for having the temerity to pose a question to candidates for prime minister. The episode would shame the team at Guido, had they any shame to spare, but it absolutely disgraces the numerous ‘respectable’ political journalists who repeated the calumny without performing the most cursory factual checks, either by sharing and retweeting or worse, turning this scurrilous smear into mainstream reporting under their own bylines. ..." |
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