Jan Moir
Everyone else is talking about it, so what the hell....
I couldn't believe what I was reading when I was read what Jan Moir wrote about Stephen Gately's death. I read it relatively early in the morning, as the power of Twitter was already warming up and news of the 'opinion piece' was spreading. Back then the title was still "Why there is nothing 'natural' about Stephen Gately's death", before they changed it to the (not much better) "A strange, lonely and troubling death..."
Of course, in true Twitter style, I commented on it, read a few @ replies and then returned to work.
Other the absolute rubbish that she wrote - which has already been ripped apart ad naseum by people with a much better way of words than me so I won't dissect it here - I couldn't believe her 'apology'. She attempted to claim that her comments had been misinterpreted and that she was the victim of some sort of orchestrated internet campaign.
Well, wake up Jan, because social media doesn't work like that.
You can't publish an article in the morning and then get literally millions of people to denounce it on mass in a 'planned' way.
Take a good look in the mirror and wonder just why people ripped you to shreds. It's because you took joy in dancing on someone's grave before his family and friends had the chance to bury him, and because your 'opinion piece' was full of stereotypes and bullshit that was obviously aimed to appeal to your narrow-minded readership. I would be quite content if no paper would publish you again, but I'm sure deep down you're loving the attention.
Anyway, that's enough of that. This has to be one of the most funny comebacks to this whole saga, and I'm sure you'll agree it was much better than my blog effort: http://notsowunderbar.blogspot.com/2009/10/why-there-is-nothing-natural-about-jan.html
I couldn't believe what I was reading when I was read what Jan Moir wrote about Stephen Gately's death. I read it relatively early in the morning, as the power of Twitter was already warming up and news of the 'opinion piece' was spreading. Back then the title was still "Why there is nothing 'natural' about Stephen Gately's death", before they changed it to the (not much better) "A strange, lonely and troubling death..."
Of course, in true Twitter style, I commented on it, read a few @ replies and then returned to work.
Other the absolute rubbish that she wrote - which has already been ripped apart ad naseum by people with a much better way of words than me so I won't dissect it here - I couldn't believe her 'apology'. She attempted to claim that her comments had been misinterpreted and that she was the victim of some sort of orchestrated internet campaign.
Well, wake up Jan, because social media doesn't work like that.
You can't publish an article in the morning and then get literally millions of people to denounce it on mass in a 'planned' way.
Take a good look in the mirror and wonder just why people ripped you to shreds. It's because you took joy in dancing on someone's grave before his family and friends had the chance to bury him, and because your 'opinion piece' was full of stereotypes and bullshit that was obviously aimed to appeal to your narrow-minded readership. I would be quite content if no paper would publish you again, but I'm sure deep down you're loving the attention.
Anyway, that's enough of that. This has to be one of the most funny comebacks to this whole saga, and I'm sure you'll agree it was much better than my blog effort: http://notsowunderbar.blogspot.com/2009/10/why-there-is-nothing-natural-about-jan.html