Iditiorial Sadism
Meet Max. He's 19, and he lives on top of a hill in north London. He's writing a play.
Today Max is shitting his skinny jeans, because he's off to do India on his own. He's keeping a blog about it, sorta following in his Dad's footsteps.
And for some reason, the commissioning editors of The Guardian have decided to coat his teenage ass in marzipan, and serve it on a plate to an army of furious CIF commenters.
[Via DJCJD]
UPDATE: Max's might be the greatest CIF thread since Mike Read announced that he wouldn't be standing for Mayor of London.
UPDATE: This just in from the Guardian travel editor.
13 Comments:
am not entirely convinced it's not a spoof.
It's certainly possible. But it's not a particularly noteworthy article until you get to the comments...
Hmm. Max Gogarty is definitely the name of the Grauniad travel editor's son, and definitely wrote for Skins. So unless his dad is mercilessly ripping the piss (which I kind of hope is the case), then the piece is real.
What a cunt.
Some little fucking arsehole who's never done a day's work in his life is off to piss away daddy's money on 'finding himself' with drugs and inevitably a bunch of toff cunts from Surrey that he'll meet on the way.
Get him down the fucking pits. Let's see him at the coal face doing some proper graft.
And he writes for skins. Get him up against the wall (after he's done a few shifts down the pits).
Toff nepotism, it's a cancer.
eltel99uk
Comment No. 941478
February 14 15:02
Email response from Private Eye: "And it would make a great story if Paul Gogarty worked for the Guardian. But, er, he doesn't."
I still think Max's little blog was picked up because of who he is rather than what he can write.
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editor's response
I still think he should be sent down the pits.
Fucking arts student. Get a proper job.
I'd be totally up for reading a blog about drug and sex debauchery in Thailand (even if it was by a North London teenage toff), as long as it was properly depraved ladyboy action, written by someone talented, amusing, and self-aware. The real problem is that Max just didn't seem to be that person.
That's not especially his fault, but it does mean that the commissioning editor showed shockingly bad judgement.
So if anyone deserves to be sent down the coalmines, I'd nominate Andy Pietrasik. And Max can be left to enjoy his all-expenses paid holiday in peace, without inflicting his blog on the rest of us.
Poor bastard. I thank God there were no blogs or internet when I was his age.
Someone in the comments asked why no one ever goes to Belarus to find themselves. You might want to look into that, if you get time.
Harry - I think the answer may be that there are only 10 million people in Belarus. So, statistically speaking, people looking for themselves have a far better chance of success somewhere like India.
I'd have to disagree, Larry. If you're looking to find yourself, surely it's best to look where there's fewer people. That way there's less chance of a case of mistaken identity?
i don't know why all the comments seem to be closed. the guardian have got a surefire winner. how many other threads are getting that many hits - what's it doing to their web advertising.
pure genius - and they said it was a collection of typographically challenged ex-socialists!
wnated to post and say finney whatever should have a blog and a free holiday. side-splitting!
also very amusing response from editor:
"One thing that came out of yesterday's posts was that you want to hear a lot more from real people rather than journalists, so I'm going to be putting up a lot more readers' recommendations and writing."
hmmmm call me a sad old pedant, but i think the thing that came out of yesterday's posts was how much everyone hates the idea and the writing but i clearly can't read as well as this bloke - i can barely spell his surname. if people wnat to hear from real people they should be getting paid for doing your job for you...
and the people saying 'i bet you bitter sods have never seen a council estate'. i lived on one for 20 years and i'm not aware it makes a blind bit of difference to my attitude to this - i'm pissing myself laughing at the whole thing; as indeed i would have done if part of this apparent north london bourgeois coterie.
and it was quite a nice estate thank you.
ps i think i've found you larry - you're on some blog about teabgas so you can stop looking and get on with something sensible. is there a prize for this?
a free travel blog?
a snake?
Thanks for posting the CiF thread, I'd been looking for that and thought The Guardian might have taken it down because Max cried so much.
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