Oh come on! Its true! Maybe I didn’t get the wording right, but you know exactly what I mean. The difference between the type of journalism that the person I was replying to was referring, i.e. political or social commentary and this kind of ‘journalism’. You comment on political issues but even on things like this! I didn’t mean to sound condescending, though I was a little annoyed by the article, cos its one thing to ‘out’ someone when they’re being hypocritical and you catch them in it, but its another to do it just well, for the hell of it.

[Daphne – I didn’t do it just for the hell of it, Matthew.]

So, in order to increase and maintain the (already large) number of followers of this blog, you point out politically irrelevant details such as hairstyle/sexuality. Following this (if you wish) you proceed to posting less superficial stories?

[Daphne – I post a mix of stories and information because, U Werner, variety is the spice of life. Like Coca-Cola, I am not giving you my recipe for success.]

Actually I was referring to Francalanza’s pseudo-journalism and not to this blog. That being said, I too cannot see how physical appearance or sexual orientation should be of enough importance to merit space on a blog which seems to always try to claim the moral high ground.

[Daphne – Moral high ground? No. I can’t be bothered with that. It’s so b-o-r-i-n-g for readers and comes across so badly. Think Jacques Rene Zammit. He hasn’t worked out yet that to get your point across you first have to make sure that people want to read you. Once thousands of them are reading you, then bingo! You’re sorted and can get all kinds of points across. If you want to, that is.]

To be fair this isn’t journalism, and its not pretending to be. Daphne knows her place, she comments on politics but a significant part of the blog is gossip. A blog that was devoted purely to journalism wouldn’t criticize others based on their physical appearance or spelling mistakes. So its her outlook, with well founded political opinions but also with idle gossip.

[Daphne – To be fair, nobody’s taught you anything about journalism and you never found out for yourself. Try working this out: all newspaper columnists are journalists but not all journalists are newspaper columnists. All gossip columnists are journalists but not all journalists are gossip columnists. To be fair, you were born in 1990 and haven’t yet worked out what a bad and stupid notion it is to condescend to somebody about the field in which they have worked as long as you have been alive.]

But some facts are irrelevant to policies/politics/etc and do not need highlighting – I agree the journalism deserves some severe criticism/shaking up to be anything near decent but still, what does him being gay have anything to do with it?

Incidentally – what is your email address please? I sent a mail but got no reply so I’m assuming that either you are very busy (quite possible with a flourishing blog like this) or I got the wrong address.

Thanks

I’m off to buy a five-gallon drum of Kjun mill-Isfar first thing tomorrow morning.

[Daphne – He should count himself bloody lucky that I stick to the facts and that I haven’t given the truffling little weasel a taste of his own medicine with a pack of vicious lies. Take my advice, and don’t even bother sticking up for scum like that. People of his relatively great age who have spent their whole lives ducking and diving and living a lie think that lies are normal.]

Italy is full of hairdressers who come from China and South America, so I don’t think that it’s difficult to start working in the EU even if you come from an outside country.