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Submit Response is a weblog by Jack Mottram, a journalist who lives in Glasgow, Scotland. There are 1303 posts in the archives. You can subscribe to a feed. This post was made on May 2, 2004 and belongs in the news category. The previous post was RingRingFindMyBloodyPhone, and the next post is Mail Thinks I’m 1337.

I Wish I Could Post This

I really wish I could post about the gossip doing the rounds at the moment con­cern­ing the rea­sons for the recent uncer­tainty sur­round­ing the future career of a cer­tain public figure in the UK.

But I - like all the news jour­nal­ists sit­ting on the story - just can’t due to the cer­tainty of legal action. In fact, I sus­pect even this blind item might be sail­ing a little close to the wind. Oh well, I’m sure one of the less rep­utable jour­nals in a coun­try with less strin­gent pri­vacy laws will pick up on it soon enough.

I bet that’s the most annoy­ing weblog post you’ll read all day.

Posted at 8pm on 02/05/04 by Jack Mottram to the news category.
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  1. DOOOOHHH shakes fist

    Posted by brat at 9pm on 02.05.04

  2. thing is, I know what you’re talk­ing about, and for some reason I’ve known about it for about three weeks (that’s right isn’t it?) and I can’t remem­ber how i came to hear about it, cos it wasn’t you that told me, or any of my other hack friends. I think it was some­one at my work.
    how queer.

    frus­trates la brat a little bit more

    Posted by Donna at 2pm on 03.05.04

  3. oh, and jack, yr rss feed for com­ments isn’t working.

    Posted by Donna at 2pm on 03.05.04

  4. Opps, you’re right. Will fix it, er, at some point.

    Posted by Jack at 3pm on 03.05.04

  5. Oh balls, looks like the new com­ment­ing fea­tures have broken it. Con­sider it dead until the final ver­sion of MT 3 comes out and I rejig the site accord­ingly. Sorry!

    (Update - seems I have to approve com­ments before they show up in the feed, so it’s now fixed)

    Posted by Jack at 3pm on 03.05.04

  6. google groups is a useful resource

    Posted by thornist at 11pm on 03.05.04

  7. You’re right, that post is infu­ri­at­ing ! :) Could you at least give us a cryp­tic clue?

    Posted by Matt at 9am on 04.05.04

  8. Er, I can’t think of a clue cryp­tic enough that will be of any use… I’m quite sur­prised it hasn’t sur­faced yet - the whole thing hap­pened weeks ago, and more and more people keep telling me about it, so it’s obvi­ously almost beyond being an open secret, as I’m not exactly in the inner circle of polit­i­cal journalists!

    Posted by Jack at 9am on 04.05.04

  9. C’mon - surely my post is enough of a start­ing point. I hardly want to post a direct link here and get Jack into trou­ble. Just think of who’s being dis­cussed, the fact that it’s gossip, and con­struct a search.

    I didn’t know when I read the post, and it took me just a few min­utes of con­tem­pla­tion to remem­ber that usenet is a sewer where every­thing gets discussed.

    Posted by thornist at 7pm on 04.05.04

  10. I can’t believe the clearly untrue and unsub­stan­ti­ated nature of the rumours on this other website.

    http://​www.​barfi​cul​ture.​com/​c​o​m​m​u​n​i​t​y​/​m​a​i​n​/​t​o​p​i​c​.​p​h​p​/​40584/

    Posted by idalina at 1pm on 05.05.04

  11. idalina you wicked little troll!!

    (oh and thanks for fixing the com­ments Möt)

    Posted by Donna at 6pm on 05.05.04

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