Hari’s “Scoops”
The sun isn’t going down on the Johann Hari scandal. The careless whisper that he was tidying up what the subjects of his “interviews” were saying, doesn’t cover all of his artistic prose. What about when the interviewee isn’t a writer, yet still gets a spruce up? How are we meant to find a little faith then?
Anna Raccoon and The Debrief have been pondering Hari’s “exclusive” interview with George Michael in the Indy back in 2005. The same interview exclusively appeared on Hari’s personal site the same day. Amazingly Hari seems to have blagged another interview with the troubled singer in 2009, this time for the Huffington Post. Except it’s not a new “exclusive” interview, it’s the same one – he simply changed the ages in the piece to reflect the time passed. A simple google from the HuffPo team would have proved that. Oh and of course there were bits of the original stolen from elsewhere. Wham!
Elsewhere around the web Archbishop Cranmer has his take, the Staggers’ notes Hari’s great affection for the Daily Mail. The HuffPo covers the scandal of the Indy journalist (Hari) who is a terrible fraud, neglecting to mention that Hari has written (or rather cut and pasted) for them, for years. Fancy that…
UPDATE: Guido understands that this week’s edition of Private Eye is going to be Hari-tastic.
OMG, the gift that keeps giving.
Should he not do the noble thing a reaign?
“And resign”
Sorry.
Hari Kiri?
as Michael settled into the chair he whinced…piles ?… I enquired… no thinking of prison
Boys sought in Yemurai Kanyangarara murder in Welling
The Met said “three frightened teenage boys”, aged about 15, were on the run or hiding in the Greater London area.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-14016539
Bowden, the arsewipe that keeps wiping
cunt
Will the job be advertised in The Guardian or The Telegraph?
Mary Drivel is the front runner.
Labourlist, Left Foot foward?
Billy, you make my winkie go hard.
Wanted – Fat Shirt-lifter who can plagarise en mass…
So what?
I don’t see the issue.
Why let the facts get in the way of a good story? It’s called progressive liberalism…
Hari, Hari, Hari, Oi, Oi, Oi
good to see Jeremy Duns getting stuck into Hari, he was always an argumentative bastard at school and i can’t imagine he is going to let go until Hari is finished!
Jeremy who?
Jeremy Dunce.
There was an old fellow called Duns
Who swore he’d eat ninety-nine buns.
At the seventy-first
He unhappily burst
And the rest were consumed by his sons.
And still the liberal left establishment protect this fraudster.
I suppose BBC Pravda will be beating down the door to sign him up when he gets sacked from journalism?
I am sure there is a future in fiction for this lying thief & cheat.
They are all fraudsters, living off other people’s efforts.
Of course, the BBC are somewhat selective.
http://biased-bbc.blogspot.com/2011/07/bbc-ignore-cruel-and-crass-tweets-from.html
I hope the Independent stands by him and he keeps his job. Retaining Hari gives all right-thinking people a stick with which to beat that pompous, hypocritical little rag.*
Furthermore, Hari’s articles will be scrutinised like never before and he will be subjected to a never-ending stream of mockery at the barest whiff of inaccuracy or non-attribution.
Of course, I am not in slightest bit malicious.
* Simon Carr being an honourable exception.
looking forward to Private Eye … they’ve been onto him for a while though
Syd James et al in remake of ‘ Carry on Hari ‘ coming to a news-stand near you
I heard that it was a rerecording of Hari Krishna.
Brilliantly he also repeats the mistake that it’s ‘Club Tropica’. It’s Tropicana darling. Attention to detail is required – or was no one reading this rubbish?
Why is this a story you Pikey fuck?
The little chap is a darling of the left, of course he tells lies, and fabricates his stories.
Remember its the bigger picture his readership of public sector paper shufflers, and yoghurt knitters is supposed to pick up on, and Mr Hari merely cuts n pastes his ‘interviews’ to that end.
Mind you, the Huffington Post makes the Indie seem a great newspaper. Wankers like Hari will cut ‘n paste for anything.
You are not a BBC cu’nt ,you right wing, dirty foreign imposter
BBC cun’ts are all on the darling Hari’s side, and despise the hatred of the right wing mob causing trouble for him.
You haters make me want to shit
You know Jasmin it’s uncanny…fior it was on my recommendation that Martin Lufor Kings removed the line ‘yo jaters makes me want to sheet’ from his ‘I have a dream speech’
We met in Memphis and he was captivated by me, wanted to quote me in speeches an stuff, it was magical
for once a good article in the Indy by Mary Ann Seigheil. we all had a drink..
Thanks for not posting a link
One swallow doesn’t make a drink
I’d been nervous but as soon as I entered the room, Santa Claus put me at ease. He welcomed me with a friendly smile and offered me a hot chocolate. “Take a seat. Make yourself at home.” But this was no ordinary home. This was a beautiful, magical grotto filled with wonders. And I was the only writer in the world who’d been invited to visit.
santa’s eyes twinkled as he started to remove his suit…elegantly clad in csahmere underwear he stood in front of the fire and oblitereated the warm ember’s glow…now if you bend over we can discuss your continued study of clairvoyance …touch your toes he said gently and as I glanced behind me and saw what he was holding I could not resist exclaiming…’you’re going to f’cuk me aren’t you ?’.. you’re learning he jingled…ho-ho-ho. Nobody likes a smartarse but perhaps its better than a sore arse.
Oh darling a triumph of journalism
These actual journalists baying for your blood are just so right wing it makes me want to shit
as jasmin parted her legs the grass started to waft gently in the not insubstantial breeze she had created… ‘now thats a wonderful void you have down there almost as vacous as the space between my literary ears’ …. before I could say alikazam she was all over me like a rash. As she lifted her lips to mine I strained to break wind but failed miserably as she pushed my testicles one by one very firmily up my bottom..I really must remember to keep my mouth shut next time.
Oooooooh Ro-land!
Did Johann Hari play Roland Brown in Grange Hill
roland was better looking; johan played the floating Harkonan fat man from ‘Dune’ if I recall….
So we should go out and buy Private Eye for the first time in years? Will it finally be worth the money?
If you’d bought P.Eye 8 years ago, you’d have known all about Hari’s unfamiliarity with the truth.
I doubt it, it got left behind years ago when that little twerp Hislop took over.
It’s still worth reading.
In Sainsbury’s. How radical is that?
Hislop is such a sour twat rarely read it now..was very good in it’s day
Only if you don’t have to pay for it…
Yeah, but what they going do? Sack the guy?
During our interview I found Johan to be a taker rather than a giver during the
“greek lessons” he sought from me
How Tuscany?
Twitter-twatter of the first order.
That should of course read, ” Johann Hari, one of the best plagiarists”
‘Murdoch / Mail press’
The old harridan is beyond parody, clearly someone who makes shit up during ‘interviews’ is a victim of a Murdoch / Mail hate campaign and not a lying plagiarist at all, in her twisted mind.
I would like to be kind to the old fraud and say it might be an age related disorder, but in reality she has always been an illogical moron, a holier than thou hypocrite and an incredibly bad writer to boot.
Could Polly please enlighten current students as to how to gain entry to Oxford University with only one A’level?
I’m sure they would find her experience and advice most enlightening.
Various combinations of nepotism,cronyism privilledge and the hereditary principle come to mind.
that or the old trout could suck the chrome off a tow bar…. brain bleach please doctor
The strokes are wring at a tomb when negligées are still underwear. The gooniment has acted in a brickless and evocative minnow, but it is time for both snides to set aside the carbolic and get a round in at the negotiating thimble and strip this from hip-hopping again.
The truckers are wiring at a loom when nephews are still underwater. The regiment has acted in a airless and evasive manor, but it is thyme for both slides to set aside the garlic and get a round the negative cable and strap this from hippening again.
The right are strong even when they are provocatively wearing foundation and that necklace, it’s time for both thighs to get astride and pet the erotic navel.
Leave me alone you bitches
Disgraceful.
Johann Hari the Robert Maxwell of Journalism.
Someone please lend him a boat and a bottle of whisky.
thought it was a gun and whisky?
or in your case ..bum and whisky
The Easter Bunny was reticent at first but I succeeded in gaining his trust. He opened up about his life and how he spends the other 11 months of the year.
Interviewing Elvis I remarked on his unusual shoes.
“They’re Blue Suede” he grunted in his Tennessee drawl.
“Well, they’re really nice. You should write a song about them.”
Vera told me that her dog, Rover, had a bad cold, and that he was unable to control his sniffing. This had irked the neighbours so much that Miss Lynn told me she was sure that ‘There’ll be blue words over the wild sniffs of Rover.’
and hence the Heartbreak Hotels Group for angina patient carers and midgets.
Guido, You forgot to re-tweet the link.
O/T
Here’s some diversity and tolerance in action.
A christian tries preaching at an Arab festival in America
(from Bias BBC)
Hari’s Soliloquy: Act 5 Scene 5.
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
A creep in this petty place
So like ‘The Day Today’.
To spin to the last syllable of recorded air-time,
And all yesterday’s news, only gave political fools
A pause for breath.
Out, out, truth vandal!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor Hack
That cuts and pastes his hour upon the page
And then is heard no more.
It is a tale, told by a half-wit,
full of soundbites and perjury,
Justifying nothing.
{This has been used before. For Derek Draper. And it even won a prize…but , as its Hari..I thought he can hardly complain about reusing old material, can he?}
I pity da fool
Johann remembers you.
He did an interview about how you were sent to a military prison for a crime you didn’t commit.
I hadn’t read the original (!!) stuff from 2003 in private eye.
http://student.cs.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/articles/article0003736.html
Hari scoops to conquer.
In his next job he will be advising Deadward Miliband on media strategies.
“Why do they hate me?” asked Gordon. For once I was speechless. This was Gordon at his most honest, his most vulnerable. And at that moment, I felt a surge of fury at the way he’d been treated by the public, his political opponents and the press. This was a man deeply misunderstood, a man mercilessly ridiculed by those who are his intellectual inferiors.
I hesitated before replying “Many great people don’t have their greatness recognised until long after they’ve left the world stage”. Gordon nodded and said in a gentle whisper “You’re right. Do you think that’s what will happen to my reputation?” I was surprised he had to ask this. “Of course. Your name will be celebrated. You’ve earned it.” He nodded again. Here was a man who knew his value and knew that history would judge him fairer than his impertinet contemporaries.
“Thank you” said Gordon. But it’s us who should thank him for his service to the country and the world. “No,” I said, “Thank YOU, sir.” And he gave me that warm, winning smile which his wife had mentioned. What a statesman. What a hero.
You will be known as poo scoops Hari
Don’t mention Sue’s decision to sell all that bullion.
here is a man at peace with himself and his record….before leaving as he showed me his comic collection I noticed that he was evacuating his bowel on the cat….oh don’t worry its only sarah’s pussy..she loves it…he quipped as I ran for the gate.
Johann – the interview’s dragging on – please wake me up before you go-go.
Johann has been reassured by fellow left wing journalists that he will not be abandoned.
“Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry, never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you.”
Jackie Astley.
http://www.johannhari.com/2009/05/03/my-favourite-quotes
“Fuck em if they can’t take a joke” – Bette Midler
Send your favourite quotes to johann@johannhari.com and if I’m gripped by a rare burst of efficiency I’ll post them here…
A case of the sinners judging the sinner. With the exception of a handful of journalists, journalists write rubbish.
For all the rubbish journalists out there, people in glass houses….
according to the Guardian Hari has an exclusive interview with “missing teenager Milly Dowler”
He will be arriving on horseback, courtesy of Shergar.
Is it true that JH has had sex with a neo-nazi and, separately, with a pious member of the East London Mos-que?
Ed Balls and George Galloway? I heard that too.
Supposedly he poked a young Islamic Extremist from Anjem Choudrays mosque’s poo in after getting him high on weed and later a Redneck Neo Nazi In America after a Far Right Rally in a hotel room after a marathon vodka session .
Until you actually look a picture of the fat ugly fucker and realise he probably fantasised and dreamt it all up.
I never understood whether Hari is an ugly fat lesbian trying to look like an ugly man, or an ugly man trying to look like an ugly fat lesbian. In both cases, he/she/it is too ugly for the “neonazi” claim to be credible.
Now if it had been Helena Kagan, the matter would have been different…
Mundabor
I haven’t ran a diff over the two stories, but at a glance they appear the same. The only dissembling may be in the word ‘exclusive’; typographic proximity to the words ‘Johann Hari’ does not imply he was responsible for that. It is common practice for freelancers to recycle their prose: publications purchase these on a one-off basis known as First Serial Rights, Second Serial Rights, etc. It is of course open to editors to purchase all of these rights as a bundle, so that the publication rather than the writer gets the recurring revenue. If indeed the Indy contracted that with Hair, then the HufPo piece is him getting one over on the Indy, which would put the ball in the Indy’s court, but only he and the Indy would know for sure.
‘Pressure Piles on Hari’ seems less about his serial dissembling, and more about his haemorrhoids. And as for pumping iron with ad piles – ouch, I’d guess. Isn’t it past time for the little shit to go?
Not always so.
Paid for pieces are the property of the purchaser.
They are not allowed to be used again.
Many publications won’t touch anything that has previously been used. Even if it was free, like on a blog post or comment.
I watched him sleep in the morning stllness, his nostrils still a little white from the night before. I dared a secret kiss on his exposed derriere, the sheet conspiring to cover his ample cock. Had I really got to know the real George Michael that night I wondered, or was it just a dream from which I was about to waken? A tentative answer came from a dull ache in my bumhole, as I gingerly stepped into the crisp morning air.
Give over Billy.
You really don’t like this guy do you Guido ?
What is there to like Mr Hadcock?
That’s a Double d if you don’t mind.
will size 40DDs do ?
Meanwhile in other media news, the Sunday Murdoch hacked Milly Dowler’s voicemail.
Now back to our main story….
Meanwhile in other media news, the Sunday Murdoch hacked Milly Dowler’s voicemail.
Now back to our main story….
You’re right Jimmy.
Unfortunately that piece of lowlife hacking will give the left wing media another let off.
Allow them back onto the moral high ground where they feel so comfortable.
Screws’ actions are completely indefensible.
Hari’s actions are completely indefensible
For the screws actions there really are no words
Err, Jimmy, the biggest hackers were the Mirror Group, something that none on the left wish to talk about. Must be the hypocrisy gene kicking in.
Might have known there’d be some mouthbreathers on here defending it.
Whilst looking up what plagiarism actually means, and giving up because the precise definition of the word is pointless- its not as if “plagiarism” carries a specific sentence in the court of public opinion after all – I found out this:
There is such a thing as “self plagiarism”. In scientific journals, if you publish the same thing twice, its that. Almost like handing in the same essay twice on different occaisions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism#The_concept_of_self-plagiarism
Call me Dave “I told the military not to bother flying me around concentrate on finding this young man ” What the fuck are you doing there you tit you were only there last week piss of back to London and stop trying to get your fucking stupid mug on the telly
these people have enough to do without having to babysit some Toff TiT
It’s a photo-op to bolster his failing popularity.
Someone should ask him for the names of all who have fallen during his premiership, you know the ones who he says he will never forget during PMQ’s every week.
I bet he couldn’t name one.
What sort of a fucking name is Johann Hari anyway?
Hmmm …. “Fuck me, Johann! Give me your meat, Johann!”
No, you’re right. It doesn’t work. Can we call him “Corporal Studcock” for this scene?
And ….. action.
Britain’s foremost intellectual leaned forward, clasping his hands together. ‘When interviewing a writer for a 6000-word profile, accurately quoting their writing is not “plagiarism” or “cut & paste journalism”‘. He sat back with a wry smile. ‘Has John F Kennedy complained? Has Dr Martin Luther King complained? What about Winston Churchill? John Lennon?”‘He grinned impishly. “So the twitterati can all just fuck off!’
Oh Mr Hari, has your naughtiness no limits? Do us all a favour, will you?
An update to the HuffPo now states “Hari, who has frequently blogged for The Huffington Post in the past, won the prize in 2008.” Good to see they they fessed up to him writing for them. Perhaps an amendment to your article is necessary to show they atleast have some credibility left.
Also, can’t wait for Private eye now.
I can see a new verb coming: to hari = to copy and paste.
“Wait, I’ll hari it for you”.
“Can you hari it and send it per email?”
Mundabor
Guido you made much use of the term ‘Jonah’ to describe Mr Brown when Labour were in power. You did not invent this epitaph and neither did you credit it at the time or subsequently. The student who did use it has asked you on several occasions to fess up or even buy him a few beers – neither of which you have done. How does that make you different to Hari? Doesn’t it just suggest a certain hypocrisy on your part?
Arianna Huffington likes to employ people with whom she has something in common. I’m just sayin’…