Hari Potter
Some silliness for a Sunday Evening. Young Wizards Hari Potter and Johann Hari look surprisingly similar.
Johann Hari has remarked about interviewees thinking he looks young, (assuming they said it):
He speaks in a very slow, strangulated gargle. “He-ll-o,” he says. “You look — ” gasp, long inhalation of breath — “about nine years old.” I smile. He doesn’t. He is 69, but looks at once much older and much younger. His face is round and entirely unlined, making him appear to be a gigantic, gnarled baby.
As someone a little older than Johann Hari, I think he’ll eventually treat it as an advantage.
More Hari tomorrow, maybe.
In the meantime, try comparing him to David Cameron when public speaking. Spooky.
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July 17, 2011 at 19:25 -
I am afraid someone’s going to have to explain this whole Hari thing to me.
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July 17, 2011 at 20:26 -
A lefty journalist who, allegedly, faked interviews by combining quotes from ones that were carried out years previously. But that’s not important right now, seen on another blog, and the best belly laugh of the day-
“The timing of the Brooks arrest, like Nuns doing squat thrusts in a cucumber field, this looks very suspicious.”
(spoiled only by the capital N but I don’t like editing someone else’s work – unlike (allegedly) Johann Hari).
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July 17, 2011 at 20:35 -
@Gildas
Briefly
Best summary probably here:
http://splinteredsunrise.wordpress.com/2011/06/28/porcus-ex-grege-diaboli/Supporting info:
http://jeremyduns.blogspot.com/
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/guy-walters (latest 4 posts)and
http://jackofkent.blogspot.com/2011/07/who-is-david-rose.html
Plenty elsewhere if you look.
The issues are:
a – taking quotes from other sources and pretending that they were to him. In one case 40+ passages in one article. No attribution.
b – changing the meaning of some of those quotes, and eg conflating different quotes into something which fits into a Hari interview.
c – manufacturing the context of those quotes.
d – some hundreds of edits on Wiki over years which seem to be congruent with a Hari sock puppet, typically denigrating/smearing journalists who have had spats with H.
e – Republishing old articles as “exclusives” elsewhere up to years later.And whether H is going to be held to account or not.
I have a couple of other issues, the main one is that H simply manufactures stuff for his opinion pieces.
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July 17, 2011 at 21:10 -
So basically a no mark? I am sorry to be judgmental but from my brief researches sounds like a fantasist no mark. Okay
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July 17, 2011 at 21:11 -
“Young Wizards Hari Potter and Johann Hari look surprisingly similar.”
Not as much as Alan Rusbridger! (h/t Daily Mash)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jul/19/alan-rusbridger-mediaguardian-100-2010
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July 17, 2011 at 23:29 -
Well that’s a blow for the statist left – you’d think they’d know when hanging on to their heroes does them no good?
On a serious note, is this an example of what happens when someone gets too much too soon and doesn’t need to spend years honing their craft? Straight out of Cambridge and into a national newspaper, where this sort of thing is easier to spot and does more damage…
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