Johann Hari

AOB · **Posted:** Sat Jun 11, 2011 8:10 am

This week you couldn't get away from Prince Phillip and hearing how "hard-working" he is. He gets chauffeur driven to visit all kinds of places and people. I call them days out. He was saying he won't miss trying to think of things to say to people he meets (now he's "winding down"). So that is basically what his "work" is. Please.

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The pickings then got even slimmer. Oborne claimed Philip should be lauded because he has "never once caused... embarrassment".

Did Oborne write that with a straight face?

Beneath The Underdog · **Posted:** Tue Jun 28, 2011 2:55 pm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/ju ... plagiarism

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Tue Jun 28, 2011 3:01 pm

The lad's been a bit of a tosser, hasn't he?

lord_kobel · **Posted:** Tue Jun 28, 2011 3:32 pm

So he's included quotes said by the interviewees at different times? Not really seeing how that's such a massive deal.

Beneath The Underdog · **Posted:** Tue Jun 28, 2011 3:37 pm

To be honest I thought journalists did this all the time

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...he said that he inserted quotes into interviews he had conducted that were taken from the subject's writings and not from the original interview itself.

to pad an article.

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So he's included quotes said by the interviewees at different times? Not really seeing how that's such a massive deal.

It does seem a mountain out of a molehill...

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Tue Jun 28, 2011 3:38 pm

It wasn't including quotes, that would be quite acceptable if they were attributed, it was adding 'colour' material to explicitly state that they were said as part of the interview when they weren't. At best that's dangerous (putting words into other people's mouths dishonestly) and at worst it's lying (if they didn't say anything like that during the interview).
As one commenter said, how would you trust the TV news if they suddenly included bits of old interviews and pretended they were from the one being currently conducted?

It was foolish and naive of him, in my opinion.

mojojojo · **Joined:** Fri Mar 19, 2010 1:33 pm **Posts:** 4264

Yeah, I like him a lot but why do that? Why not say they are quotes and where they came from?

dailyheil · **Joined:** Mon Dec 06, 2010 7:39 pm **Posts:** 1017

not saying this is true

http://islamversuseurope.blogspot.com/2 ... fting.html

but if it is then

Lord Reason · **Joined:** Wed Aug 10, 2011 3:48 pm **Posts:** 75

I wonder if this will mean his suspension will be increased after this damming revelation. He's been thoroughly discredited now.

Fflaps · **Posted:** Thu Sep 15, 2011 11:13 am

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/co ... 54679.html

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Thu Sep 15, 2011 11:16 am

Ironic, isn't it, that Littlejohn gets away with a far greater degree of 'inaccuracy' and is rewarded by his fellow journos with prizes. The PCC even says that no-one expects what he says to be true. Hari 'embellishes' his interviews (which actually happened, after all) and gets his throat torn out by the very same journos.

Did I say ironic? I meant sickeningly hypocritical.

bluebellnutter · **Posted:** Thu Sep 15, 2011 11:18 am

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/soci ... 109154307/

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Thu Sep 15, 2011 11:24 am

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Meanwhile Private Eye greeted Hari's apology by hopping up and down like a Footlights ponce and said Hari should retrain in exactly the same way as they didn't after being dangerously wrong about the MMR vaccine.

Editor Ian Hislop said Hari's lack of judgement was all too typical of the sort of young, untrained journalists who graduate from Oxbridge, have lunch with Peter Cook and then become editor of a magazine that is amusing to retired accountants and those who laugh loudly at Shakespeare 'comedies'.

Like a drain.

Lord Reason · **Joined:** Wed Aug 10, 2011 3:48 pm **Posts:** 75

Just in case anyone didn't post Toby Young's brilliant response to the little twat Dirty Hari's "apology":

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyy ... dependent/

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Thu Sep 15, 2011 1:51 pm

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