Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

I agree drugs are for idiots and also about j-dogg; perhaps a... poll is in order?

who do we have

kwame
eshun
greer
morley
john harris
the tory guy
myerson

??

j-myer is one of the worst newsnight review people of all time. in a hotly contested field of shite

Amen to that. She's a contmeptible airhead. Don't agree about drugs being for idiots.

I read a newspaper article about all this and I can say flat-out that her decision to write about what she did is truly, truly repulsive. Typical sheltered North London entitlement-seeker?

the tory guy

michael gove. yeah, maybe he is worse.

(xp) There's hundreds of the buggers

Tom Paulin occasionally? Slowly turning into a giant CREASE?
Asian guy with big hair.
Michael Gove *vomit*
Jolly Northern poet bloke.
Horsey looking American blonde.
Small Asian woman with short hair who I saw in Archway a few weeks back.
That Lionel woman, novelist who wears gloves indoors.

etc etc

Does Paulin do Newsnight Review anymore? Haven't watched it for yeeeears.

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i will never, ever understand people who air their dirty laundry in public, or even just opening up their private lives to the world at all

I'm glad someone mentioned this because I wanted to scream and throw things at the television. She railed that none of her critics had read the book; Paxman said he had. She knows damn well that most reviewers will have had it for a month or so so frankly, does not wash. Contemptible woman.

My family have given me permission to write about every single last bit of weird shit that has ever happened to us but if any of them objected at draft stage I'd have to reconsider my structure.

Well, there are levels. Writing a book explicitly describing your own son as a drug-addict psychopath and then courting all the publicity you can about it seems like quite a dicey way to go about winning friends/influencing people. xp

Good way to sell books though

and more to the point, um, he isnt?

"Harry Potter and the fucking enormous bong I found in his bedroom"

Maybe she's setting him up in life by giving him the opportunity to write a bestselling rejoinder

I wonder what Max Gogarty thinks of it all

no i was talking more generally...this is particularly distasteful but i just don't understand that urge to let everyone know about your business. i'd be mortified at the idea of parading even the best stuff in my private life in the national newspapers. i'm not objecting, i read that shit as much as anyone, but i just could never do it. this probably makes me a victorian or something and means i'll never be a celebrity.

xps

My current stance is that if there's a story worth telling, that doesn't misrepresent, distort or compromise anyone, then it should be told, but stories worth telling are rarely of the sort where someone spills their subjective personal shit to a journalist for cash. These normally turn out to be the kind of uninteresting, harmful stories whose only use is to demonstrate the power and maleovolence of mass media and all who sail in/whore themselves to her. Just blog it ffs.

Jeez, that J Myerson article is some mealy-mouthed weepy-eyed bs, as well as being way tl;dr. In the same way that he sez his son is basically a FUCKING GENIUS he has to have TERRIBLE TERRIBLE problems that are hardly out of the ordinary.

Newsnight Review is a pretty astonishing programme. Why would I want those most of those peoples opinions on anything? They aren't even funny.

Also, fuck pussys who can't take their weed.

(Yes, I would like to work for mass media, but you know what I mean.) ;-)

I'm glad Suzy saw it too. JM seemed so pointless; just go away, woman! be quiet!

dire how she kept saying HE'S MY BOY
awful !!!

he's probably a tosser too, the Boy

the Max Gogarty line above is so funny !!

the really odd thing about the Review people is how many of them I have met.

Morley
Harris
Myerson
Churchwell

oh, OK, that's only 4. it feels like more.

I'm glad Suzy saw it too. JM seemed so pointless; just go away, woman! be quiet!

dire how she kept saying HE'S MY BOY
awful !!!

he's probably a tosser too, the Boy

the Max Gogarty line above is so funny !!

the really odd thing about the Review people is how many of them I have met.

Morley
Harris
Myerson
Churchwell

oh, OK, that's only 4. it feels like more.

I'm glad Suzy saw it too. JM seemed so pointless; just go away, woman! be quiet!

dire how she kept saying HE'S MY BOY
awful !!!

he's probably a tosser too, the Boy

the Max Gogarty line above is so funny !!

the really odd thing about the Review people is how many of them I have met.

Morley
Harris
Myerson
Churchwell

oh, OK, that's only 4. it feels like more.

wow I didn't know it was possible, now, to post that many times

maybe Kermode could be worst of all tho?

There's something really horrible about having this breezy, artful magazine style of writing applied to the writer's own anguish.

I have deliberately tried to strike my son, to punch him until he hurts. Who have I become? What happens to make anyone do that? And yet, later that day, we find him sitting in the park outside, strumming a guitar with his sister.

I apologise (as though I could ever say enough). He smiles and says it is OK (and that's why I love him).

Wait, you love him because he allows you not to feel like an asshole on the same day you hit him?

Sitting in the park with his guitar - is there no end to his depravity?

You saw what happened to Doherty.

He mistreated a cat too.

Skim read the article; sounds like the whole family are bunch of narcissistic cunts, up to and including the cat.

He mistreated a cat too.

Next stop, Ian Brady

I just mentioned this to my own mother and she's pretty LOL WTF about the whole thing too, says that on Newsnight JM kept on absolving herself by claiming to have never once mentioned him by name. And now she's handed me yesterday's Times where Libby Purves has proffered a hearty response.

I love how this kid's increasing rebelliousness and perversity is entirely blamed on weed.

No, she told us, the cannabis isn't a symptom, it's the cause. That's when we put it together.

"That's when we finally had something outside ourselves to blame all this poor communication on."

"The problem, I suspect, was that Julie Myerson is a compulsive writer and that once lovely phrases begin forming in her head her self-control evaporates. Perhaps it is her equivalent of a really good spliff."

To be fair I do know of people for whom skunk has caused enormous problems. I also know people who smoke it pretty much every day and lead perfectly normal lives.

"The problem, I suspect, was that Julie Myerson is a compulsive writer"

Can we do something to help her to overcome this embarassing compulsion?

buy enough of her books that she never needs to write again

I also know people who smoke it pretty much every day and lead perfectly normal lives.

If frightening hapless codgers and mugging 10 year olds for their mobiles phones is normal, yes

I thought it was 10 year olds who mugged people

but I agree with you, I hate muggers.

I don't like Julie M either and it sounds like her narcissism and carelessness have finally landed her like a beached shark.

"i actually know someone who likes the smell of skunk."
http://marykcarman.blogspot.com/2008/04/hop-on-mexican-train.html

can someone else post nice pictures of skunks? Pictures don't always work for me.

I don't like Julie M either and it sounds like her narcissism and carelessness have finally landed her like a beached shark.

A bleached shark, judging by her hair colour in that old photo

the generalising abt drugs on this thread - abt their effects, the stupidity or o/wise of ppl who take them, their availability in se london etc - seems as bad as a bad guardian writer (eg toynbee)

http://www.heroicfineart.com/catalog/images/ClassicPepe%5B1%5D

from her introduction to the book, explaining to her son why she wrote it: "Don't worry, it's not so much about you - or at least it is - but it's more about me really." lol self-awareness.

More interesting if it had been about the cat

... or is that the sequel?

The cat gets a paint stripe down back. Pepe le Pew falls in love w/it.

Myerson family's ongoing struggle with skunk etc

as a side point.. is kicking your druggy kid onto the street to fend for himself really supposed to be the thing to do and the way to stop him falling into further drugs/crimes/south londonness??