However, there were concerns expressed that Nightjack did openly discuss cases that had yet to comne to trial, potentially causing conflicts in the process. I know of other cops and magistrates who have blogs who are very keen to insist that their blogging is based on a generalised reality rather than any specific case to avoid this very accusation.. keep to the Fen Causeway
But I thought it was interesting the innuendo in the Times about sex cases involving children, and Blacker is just lovely.
I'm happy to not have to worry about this stuff, since I use my real name (and everyone I know already knows I say offensive and outrageous stuff), but I also have to laugh at journalists trying to establish their dominance with these silly outings. They are, much more so than (say) the autoworkers or whatever other group you can think of, a bunch of lazy, low-value workers in a dying industry. Journalism, even at "respectable" papers like the Indie, has descended into the Village Elders -- or, in the case of the British press, the Villagers' useful idiots -- listening to each other make Very Serious points.
And it's becoming sad. Their knee-jerk reaction is to out and attempt to discredit. We never have gotten beyond that Clinton-Gingrich Era psychosis. Not that they can't still inflict a lot of damage, but the amount is decreasing daily. They've lost touch with reality.
The reality is that time is not on their side, and every day just a few more people realize that they're a bunch of criminals -- or, at best, apologists for the fascist turn English-speaking societies have taken in recent decades.
And if "bullying" means these clowns never commit another Iraq, or that Iranians (whatever their opinions may be) get to try to make their votes count, or that sick people get health care, or whatever -- then bring on the "bullying," and let them write their pissy little columns. Fuck these assholes. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
