Rod Liddle To Edit A Free Indepedent Newspaper, If Facebook Allows It
WILL Rod Liddle edit the Independent newspaper? Will the Indy be a free paper? Will anyone read it? Are 3,000 Facebook members gunning for Liddle more than the Indy can dream of getting to support one of its campaigns? Madame Arcarti wonders:
THE Facebook campaign against Rod Liddle’s rumoured appointment-to-be as the next editor of the Independent amuses me. Over 3000 people have signed up to the protest so far – amazing really, considering Liddle’s rumoured champion, Alexander Lebedev (the Russian oligarch presently burying alive the London Evening Standard), has yet to buy the paper.
It amuses me for many reasons. For instance, I don’t recall a Facebook campaign against the Indy’s present editor Roger Alton at the time of his appointment – he’d war-mongered for Blair on the liberal/leftist Observer during the Iraq invasion just because the government paid court to him and one of his ignorant sidekicks.
“Make a stand here for standards in the British press,” say the Facebook petitioners. Yet Liddle has made his plastic name writing silly posturing things in The Sunday Times, the Spectator and elsewhere. What standards in the British press? – MA
Posted: 13th, January 2010 | In: Reviews Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
