Posts Tagged Telegraph Online
Quote of the Day
Posted by Grand Méchant Loup in News on August 25, 2011
I’ll probably get around to posting another update when I have the time, but I thought I’d leave you with what I thought was an excellent summary of the Libyan imbroglio – a comment left on an article in the Telegraph Online. Early in the morning, Hospitaller wrote:
It makes me laugh to see the number of so called educated, intelligent people who think that every time there is a revolution in cess pool of a country with a failed economy, no legal system and no tradition of law and parliamentary democracy, that there is clutch of new George Washingtons just waiting to emerge from obscurity and lead them to the promised land. Yeah, sure, right after you win the lottery, buy a champion football team and have a super model fall in love with you.
I couldn’t have said it better myself. With that level of self-belief, I would have snared Claudia Schiffer by now and whisked her off in my Mercedes SLR Stirling Moss.
Work experience journalism
Posted by Grand Méchant Loup in News on July 21, 2010
Much has been said about the journalistic profession, and how the quality of both writing and research has plummeted ever since online media started to outflank the printed press. While more scurrilous types could always be found in the murky offices of the red tops, much of what you found in the so-called quality press was for the most part well written and – perhaps more crucially – competently researched. Read the rest of this entry »