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March 2, 2006I want a meeting with Ian Hislop
Private Eye bit into the fruit too early and have been shy of Teh Interwebs ever since. But stuff like this needs to be online:
The Eye could benefit greatly from a strategic release of their material online... as I've been saying to them privately - and publicly - for years now.
There's also a lot that I've been holding in reserve.
Lunch. Hislop.
Who will help me to bake this bread?
(Incidentally, the cartoon this snippet refers to can be seen here.)
PS - While I'm asking; I would also like a windmill, please.
UPDATE - BlairWatch picks up on the Guardian picking up on yet more ammo from Private Eye
Posted by Manic on March 2, 2006 8:37 PM in the category Teh Interwebs
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It's always about the windmill with you isn't it.
Windmills wont make you happy Tim. Look at Windy Miller, he's a manic depressive.
Posted by: bigdaddymerk at March 3, 2006 3:04 AM
Tim, as an eye subscriber, I have asked Ian to have lunch with you.
And what's up with the windmills?
Posted by: scotch at March 3, 2006 11:04 AM
P.S You can get a ham sandwich for a quid in the Coach and Horses.
Posted by: scotch at March 3, 2006 11:07 AM
Go on Tim; grind the bastard down! (That was a reference to milling, not to Ian Hislop, BTW.)
Posted by: Backword Dave at March 3, 2006 3:02 PM
Agree, but they would need to be very careful about how they did it. Some bits of Private Eye - eg Street of Shame, HP Sauce - would work very well as blogs but could quickly destroy the in-print product if they took off. On the other hand, Slop needs to recognise that if he doesn't do it, others will (in fact, already have) and the in-print version will become obselete anyway.
This dilemma is not unique to Private Eye - it is one faced by the entire newspaper industry.
Posted by: Paul Linford at March 3, 2006 5:31 PM
Did I say the word 'blog'? Did I?
:o)
Oh... wait... I did. Just then. But a blog is not what I have in mind for Private Eye. At least, not at the core of Teh Plan.
Teh Plan keeps a blog in reserve and *only* for use on time-sensitive articles (that would be old news by the time the next issue comes out).
Just think about how much this would f**k up those clever clogs that delay releases and rulings until PE has gone to print.
:o)
Posted by: Manic at March 3, 2006 5:48 PM
I'd still buy the print version even if the entire content went online immediately they got the story, it'd still be a good archive.
Besides, there are bits that simply wouldn't work online that ought to. We know that at least some Eye staffers read blogs regularly.
Posted by: MatGB at March 3, 2006 10:46 PM
"Private Eye bit into the fruit too early"
Tim, could you explain this further for the uninitiated?
Posted by: Robert at March 3, 2006 11:37 PM
They relied on a top-heavy Flash site long before it became fashionable to go out of business doing so.
Posted by: Manic at March 4, 2006 10:12 AM
The Jowell/Mackie/Rusbridger/Mills relationship was mentioned in the print media a few years ago but it doesn't do any harm to have it flagged up every once in a while.
A good few years ago the Republicans in the US developed a strategy of identifying the most senior people in thier party closest to the main news media sources and cultivating this to the party's advantage. I always wondered if NuLabour were using Jowell for similar purposes.
Posted by: irritant at July 3, 2008 6:49 PM
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