Of course, the journalists should be kicking themselves that they got finessed out of the better story - Blears used her clout to get a civil servant fired for an emailed comment to her website.
On 6 Jul , at 23:52:05, paul perrin wrote: > I think a similarly high profile 'right to reply' would be in order. > > 99.99% of the people reading the 'right to reply' will not have seen > the original story, and 99.99% of people who saw the original story > will not see the right to reply... > > So don't directly mention the original story in the 'right to reply' > - just say how wonderful 'mysociety' is, and mention in passing that > it is financed by public contributions (of time and money) and is > jealously independant so would not disclose any data unless obliged > by law etc... > > A google on "You are a disgrace (including all the other honourable > members)" (having uniquely weird grammar) shows mail, telegraph and > guardian from MSM. > > Paul /)/+) > > ps. looking further I have just seen the guaridan story is about the > mysociety denial! pump that publicity!! > > > 2009/7/6 Tom Steinberg <[email protected]> > I will ask all the journalists who published the story without > checking (and perhaps the bloggers too) if they'd like to donate, as > part of asking for corrections! > > Tom > > > > 2009/7/6 Alexander Harrowell <[email protected]>: > > On Monday 06 July 2009 15:40:03 Matthew Somerville wrote: > > > >> > I would guess that - if the story is not actually invented out > of whole > > > >> > cloth, which has to be a live consideration - they picked up a > > > >> > confirmation e-mail coming *in*. > > > >> > > > >> Hmm, I guess there are chinks in my armour even when I try to be > totally > > > >> clear. You can't comment on TheyWorkForYou without registering, so > > > >> comments are either visible or reactively hidden if they're drawn > to our > > > >> attention. No comment equal to, or like in any way I tried, the one > > > >> quoted by the Telegraph exists in the site's database in any form > that I > > > >> can find. Just to be clear :) > > > >> > > > > I'm not arguing that the comment exists, just that a click-here-to- > confirm > > message might have been detected by inbound e-mail monitoring. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list [email protected] > > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list [email protected] > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list [email protected] > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public -- /* Stefan Magdalinski +447769 666528 (phone) smagdali (IM/twitter/flickr/dopplr/skype/etc) */ _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
