Comments on: See if you can spot where the logic goes wrong http://wongablog.co.uk/2009/11/21/see-if-you-can-spot-where-the-logic-goes-wrong/ like balloons, but with dancing Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:22:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Andrew http://wongablog.co.uk/2009/11/21/see-if-you-can-spot-where-the-logic-goes-wrong/comment-page-1/#comment-58334 Andrew Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:25:36 +0000 http://wongablog.co.uk/?p=4598#comment-58334 I feel sort of sorry for the newspapers when something like this happens. It looks almost exactly like a hypocrite being caught in a hilarious gaffe. That angle doesn't exist, obviously, but it'd be a great story if it did, so they end up milking the superficial appearance of a scandal for all it's worth while carefully avoiding saying anything that might encourage further analysis. Then people like Gerald Coates give content-free soundbites to hook their interests into the whole thing. The problem is that I can't for a second imagine a situation where a newspaper calls someone for a response quote and, having received it, say 'oh, you're right, this is a stupid story. I shall write about something else.' I feel sort of sorry for the newspapers when something like this happens. It looks almost exactly like a hypocrite being caught in a hilarious gaffe. That angle doesn’t exist, obviously, but it’d be a great story if it did, so they end up milking the superficial appearance of a scandal for all it’s worth while carefully avoiding saying anything that might encourage further analysis. Then people like Gerald Coates give content-free soundbites to hook their interests into the whole thing.

The problem is that I can’t for a second imagine a situation where a newspaper calls someone for a response quote and, having received it, say ‘oh, you’re right, this is a stupid story. I shall write about something else.’

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