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Bloggers pro-Obama and anti-Greenwald - A Distraction on Issue | 90 comments (87 topical, 3 editorial, 0 hidden)
Re: Bizarre extra (4.00 / 3)
"No, he shouldn't have demanded a court order first, the point was to avoid the involvement of legal action as far as possible"

But I think he should have demeaned a court order should have indeed pursued legal action. And that is not a "nasty little put down" but a quite fundamental question.

by IM on Fri Aug 23rd, 2013 at 04:07:54 AM EST
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Bizarre autocorrect (none / 1)
should have demeaned a court order

Blogging from your phone, eh?

Finance is the brain [tumour] of the economy

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Aug 23rd, 2013 at 04:17:02 AM EST
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Re: Bizarre autocorrect (4.00 / 8)
Demanded first, demeaned later.

"Blogging from your phone, eh?"

I don't belong to the spoiled youth of today who needs mechanical help to mess up.

by IM on Fri Aug 23rd, 2013 at 04:40:22 AM EST
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Re: Bizarre autocorrect (none / 0)
LOL

Finance is the brain [tumour] of the economy
by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Aug 23rd, 2013 at 05:22:47 AM EST
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Re: Bizarre extra (none / 0)

The nasty little put-down was the use of "bragging".

He shouldn't have demanded a court order for the reason I gave - which you just ignore - mere assertion is not very convincing.  

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.

by Ted Welch (tedwelch-at-mac-dot-com) on Fri Aug 23rd, 2013 at 06:37:59 PM EST
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Re: Bizarre extra (none / 0)
This
it felt like a peculiarly pointless piece of symbolism that understood nothing about the digital age
deserved the putdown, in my opinion. Can we agree to disagree?

Finance is the brain [tumour] of the economy
by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Aug 23rd, 2013 at 06:43:46 PM EST
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Re: Bizarre extra (none / 0)

Clearly we disagree, but that's because you're wrong :-) - as I've already pointed out, he's quite right about the pointlessness - in the digital age - of THAT particular act of destruction.

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.
by Ted Welch (tedwelch-at-mac-dot-com) on Fri Aug 23rd, 2013 at 08:29:24 PM EST
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Re: Bizarre extra (none / 1)
He should have demanded a court order so that he doesn't create a precedent. That is important and I am not sure that your worries about potential problems with publication during the trial are well founded.
by IM on Sat Aug 24th, 2013 at 03:21:42 AM EST
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Re: Bizarre extra (none / 0)

They are not MY "worries"they are the views of a very experienced British editor - who knows rather more about the press and British law than you.

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.

by Ted Welch (tedwelch-at-mac-dot-com) on Sat Aug 24th, 2013 at 07:32:18 AM EST
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appeal to authority?

First term mistake.

by IM on Sat Aug 24th, 2013 at 07:35:08 AM EST
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Misunderstanding when appeal to authority is a fallacy and when it's not ?

This fallacy is committed when the person in question is not a legitimate authority on the subject. More formally, if person A is not qualified to make reliable claims in subject S, then the argument will be fallacious.

As I said, they are the views of a very experienced British editor, who constantly has to deal with issues of the relations of the press and the British legal system - and hence is a "legitimate authority" on the subject.

IM must try harder in the second term to avoid obvious blunders :-)

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.

by Ted Welch (tedwelch-at-mac-dot-com) on Sat Aug 24th, 2013 at 08:49:37 AM EST
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