Highbrow Guardianistas do like themselves a "lively" tone, now and then Archived Message
Posted by margo on June 27, 2019, 12:29 pm, in reply to "Guardian's Michael White reply to Medialens, J Cook's response"
So former political and associate editor of The Guardian Michael White supports the blanking out of UN Special Rapportuer Nils Melzer's piece. According to White, Prof Nils Melzer is a very clever law expert (and Swiss to boot) so it's not acceptable that he writes an article in accessible lay terms, explaining the case simply and clearly, without legal jargon. White feels Guardian's discerning readers would not find it acceptable that Melzer crunches lengthy legal arguments to give busy readers easily-accessible text and metaphors that render the case more understandable, like: Previous Message Melzer: "the only arguable hacking-charge against [Assange] relates to his alleged unsuccessful attempt to help breaking a password which, had it been successful, might have helped his source to cover her tracks. In short: a rather isolated, speculative, and inconsequential chain of events;... a bit like trying to prosecute a driver who unsuccessfully attempted to exceed the speed-limit, but failed because their car was too weak".
Presumably, because he's a Swiss lawyer, Melzer was supposed to write a more high falutin' article for the discerning Guardian reader, who doesn't want to be fobbed off with "Daily Mail" type effervescence. Yet Michael White's presumably been accepting of other "lively" and "DM"-style writing that's been published at The Guardian. He was a senior member of The Guardian when an editorial meeting thought it a jolly jape to send one of their clever journos over to the Ecuador Embassy bearing a wicker hamper packed with clean socks and deodorant... the kind of "lively" stuff the DM and The Sun's less highbrow readers enjoy. Guardian's Suzanne Moore recently won a prize for her "lively" piece, perhaps more suited to the DM, according to White's standards:
Previous Message Lively prose from Guardian's Suzanne Moore : "O frabjous day! We are all bored out of our minds with Brexit when a demented looking gnome is pulled out of the Ecuadorian embassy by the secret police of the deep state. Or ‘the met’ as normal people call them." "I bet Assange is stuffing himself full of flattened guinea pigs. He really is the most massive turd."
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Message Thread:
- Article written by Nils Melzer that the world's major newspapers don't want you to read - margo June 26, 2019, 11:12 pm
- Re: Article written by Nils Melzer that the world's major newspapers don't want you to read - dovetailjoint June 27, 2019, 6:40 am
- Guardian's Michael White reply to Medialens, J Cook's response - margo June 27, 2019, 10:42 am
- Highbrow Guardianistas do like themselves a "lively" tone, now and then - margo June 27, 2019, 12:29 pm
- Re: Article written by Nils Melzer that the world's major newspapers don't want you to read - AlanG June 27, 2019, 11:12 am
- More from "Michael White" on the UN's "foolish" "experts" - margo June 27, 2019, 2:26 pm
- The dangerous arrogance of White smearing UN rapporteur's comment as hyperbolic - margo June 27, 2019, 2:57 pm
- Meanwhile, Kristinn Hrafnsson has recently visited Assange in prison and finds him wearing earplugs - margo June 27, 2019, 3:30 pm
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