Rather amusing post over at Unity's blog all about my post from yesterday. To save you the time reading through I shall paraphrase here for you. Basically, Unity has decided that (a) I should not have used the word "leaked" in the question in my title. And (b) because some other blogger posted somehwere explaining that the Labour Party didn't need permission to film where they did I was not allowed to ask the question, "did they get permission from the Serjeant at Arms?" (which was in brackets suggesting I considered it throwaway anyway).
The thing is, there is a wider question here for me about, funnily enough, questions. This is not the first time in the past few days that someone has asked a speculative question and found themselves shouted at by commenters or other bloggers on the basis that "if you have no evidence you can't ask the question". Or alternatively (and what they're really saying), "your question is really a hidden accusation because I have decided it, therefore I will treat it as such rather than as it is".
The problem I have with this rather circular thinking by, sadly in most examples, left wingers, is, if I may put it in a question. How do you - as a blogger who has a comment feature for readers to reply through - find out evidence? Is it by osmosis or by.....errr...... asking questions?
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Are the left-wing bloggerati paranoid about damaging things being revealed by right-wing bloggers?
Do lefties really believe in democracy or do they just like to keep its facade up so as to give the appearance of choice?
I;m not sure Ed. I think the more anally retentive of them think that we should follow some sort of journalistic type code.
I think basically they are so unsure of themselves and the politics they dabble in, that they are paranoid if anyone questions even the validity of their beliefs.
But it is very Orwellian & Catch-22ism.
I think some of them would be happier living under the regime in North Korea. Now that their great leader has gone to tread the boards in the Middle East.
"...because some other blogger posted somehwere explaining that the Labour Party didn't need permission to film where they did I was not allowed to ask the question, "did they get permission from the Serjeant at Arms?""
No, you are allowed to ask the question....
....so long as you've read the entire Internet first! Better get clicking!
Alternatively, you could just ignore them.
Prescriptive blogging prohibitionists, you just wanna hang and play twister with them don't you?
Dizzy I just think that this is a good example of the clunking fist syndrome amongst the Labour party.
The Internet or blogsphere is fast becoming an extremely powerful medium in the political debate, and more importantly it is completely out of the control of Labour or any other party.
Political parties have to get on board and ride the wave, use it as a positive platform to get your message across. Heavy negative attacks don't seem to work as effectively here as in the US, maybe I will be proved wrong.
In the past year I have tended to find that when Labour bloggers work in some sort of organised cabal to undermine a particular off message or right wing blog, it backfires spectacularly making them look nasty or bullying?
Is that noise I can here from dizzy the sound of a nerve being touched? Only a question, you understand.
Nerve? No. It's the sound of me thinking out loud about the absurdity of the argument that is often put forward which is circular.
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