Twitter Media Bitch Fight: Swaine Owns Haynes
We are being spoiled for media ding dongs so far this year. You have to wonder whether Guardian website guy Jonathan Haynes still thinks that pointing out of a typo on the Telegraph was so funny. The replies from Telegraph Washington correspondent Jon Swaine have been sent into Guido half a dozen times:
@JonathanHaynes A very regrettable error. But at least you managed to scrape a few lunchtime RTs out of it, eh? What a hero.—
Jon Swaine (@jonswaine) January 14, 2013
@JonathanHaynes ..they are also frustrated when critics like you, having never broken a story in your life, abandon all esprit de corps..—
Jon Swaine (@jonswaine) January 14, 2013
@JonathanHaynes ..and assign laziness or even malevolence to the work they do for stupidly long hours/not great pay. Please consider this.—
Jon Swaine (@jonswaine) January 14, 2013
Wince…
As they might say in the graun, ironci
My first thought, but you beat me to it, with an extra twist.
+1
That all said, looking at the actual tweet that ‘kicked it all off’ it does read to me like a simple advice of error and pretty neutral.
I shall now retire to a bunker, just in case.
It needs to be a peed bukner
As long as they spelled it right, when it was “Pay to the order of…”, I didn’t give a shit if people called me “Schwartz”; it was always going to happen, right?
Who gives a shit?
You think this is a ding-dong? Have you seen what is happening to Julie Burchill?
… intimates’ affectionate name for the regretted Swarz was : Atticus … for schoolboy reasons .
“@JonathanHaynes: @jonswaine don’t you think the increasingly casual attitude to accuracy taken by some parts of the media is real problem?”.
Didn’t he mean “is a real problem”?