Rod Liddle And Suzanne Moore Row Over Independent Editor’s Job On Facebook
ROD Liddle or Suzanne Moore to edit the Independent? Hey, it’s big news in some media circles (like Moore and Liddle’s houses, respectively. And at Anorak).
Madame Arcati looks at at a media row on Facebook:
SORRY to go on about the Independent but… well, this is too delicious. I have just come across a Facebook row today between Rod Liddle (rumoured to be the next Indy editor) and Suzanne Moore, the Mail on Sunday columnist and my preferred candidate for the Indy job.
The exchange takes place in a thread started by someone called Claire Khaw who appears to defend Liddle against the racism charge in today’s Mail on Sunday. Suzanne mocks her (and others’) hopes that by supporting Liddle they will land jobs under his editorship. She also appears annoyed that he’s called her middleclass …
Rod responds [unedited] to Suzanne:
“what your thrid division reporter wrote in the MoS today was a perfect example of fascism, a tirade of lies. He attempted to attribute racism to me by quoting a)things which I had not said at … See Moreall and b) quoting me using a direct quote in SUPPORT of a black footballer who had been allegedly subject to racist abuse. Your paper is morally and politically despicable, Suz, and better still – you know it. But what will you do about it? Just pocket the cheque, pocket the cheque.”
Suzanne: “Rod you can message me direct. I never go into the office. So I cant comment. Pocket the cheque for my column? Yes I will just as you pocket the cheque from Murdoch. If the MOS story is a tirade of lies i guess you can sue? As for Claire’s question i dunno I have never got a job by sleeping with anyone. Quite the reverse.”
Rod: “A journalist sue a journalist? You really have no morals, do you? And it’s pointless waving Murdoch at me – I didn’t put myself on a high horse . I didn’t say I wouldn’t work for you because you were a reactionary. I am well aware of who I work for and wouldn’t be hypocritical about it.”
Suzanne: “Yes please Rod do give me a lecture on morals. I am all ears.”
Rod: “You should be, Suzanne. I know principle and truthfulness when I see it. You don’t.”
Suzanne: “Rod you sound like Tony Blair or something! Obviously I disagree. I dont think you know much about me at all. I Am gonna make my amoral children some amoral dinner if thats OK….
Later Suzanne writes: “Meerkats are the liberal choice surely Rod? I promise if you promise to stop challenging us with your base racist and sexist assumptions which hardly make us see the world anew…. Rod Liddle CANNOT become editor of The Indy. No no no.”
Oh and it goes on and on. Doncha love the chattering classes? And Liddle has much to learn about seemly behaviour becoming a newspaper editor.
On a brighter note, both understand social media better than most.
Posted: 18th, January 2010 | In: Reviews Comment (1) | TrackBack | Permalink
