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By: Honesty is the Best Policy (only when you’re doing it for free and your opinion’s worth shit anyway.) « The Abyss

Sat, 08 Aug 2009 16:49:07 +0000

[...] while I was on this straightened internet diet, I came across this post here by Eoin Butler which brings up a very, very good point. For those who can’t bare to navigate [...]

By: El Kid

El Kid — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:41:17 +0000

What I hate most about this blog Butler is the incessant racism and misogny. Cut it out, dude.

By: Eoin

Eoin — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:06:30 +0000

@ Fiona – That’s true of course, but neither of us has to contend with a cottage industry of commentators (who may or may not know what they’re talking about) publicly marking us out of five on everything we write.

I got a taste of what musicians have to contend with when Mongrel magazine, which I worked on, closed down. Jim did a blog post about it:

http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/ontherecord/2008/03/04/closing-the-book-on-mongrel-opening-the-chapter-on-state/

What amazed me were some of the comments from people who clearly had no idea, or only the vaguest idea, of what the magazine had been about, but who nonetheless felt qualified to pass judgement on it. One guy said he disliked the magazine because all it did was make fun of chavs and run photographs of Traveller weddings. We’d never once done anything of the sort.

How do you argue with that?

I wasn’t pissed off about it or anything – far from it – because the vast majority of the comments were positive (or were from people who genuinely didn’t care for the magazine.)

But it did give me pause for thought. It did make me question how many times I myself, either in public or even in print, had enunciated on a topic I actually didn’t know that much about. My suspicion is that we all do it far more often than we should.

By: Fiona

Fiona — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:49:14 +0000

Gah! The elephant in the room is out and rampaging round the blogosphere! Good points raised, though I would contend (naturally) with this bit: But as a journalist and blogger, I don’t have to worry about that. We consider it completely beyond the pale to submit our own peers to anything like the same level of scrutiny we hold musicians, let alone politicians.” I would say that as a journalist, you put stuff out there for criticism all the time. Once it’s in the public domain, it’s up for grabs, and I often get comments from non-journos telling me just what they think of what I’ve just written. Which I think is fair game. It’s what I do. Er, that is all.

By: Eoin

Eoin — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 07:50:21 +0000

Fair enough Chris, hysterical female fans may send their knickers to the Eoin Butler for Mayoman of the Year Steering Committee, P.O. Box 281, Dublin 7.

By: ChrisNoise

ChrisNoise — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:25:32 +0000

Maybe they don’t have your address? Maybe then you would be inundated with ladies undergarments.

By: Eoin

Eoin — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:23:17 +0000

Patsey,

I have superiors whose job it is to make sure that I do my job correctly. So does everyone currently in employment.

What I don’t have to worry about, however, is having my shortcomings publicly picked over by a critic who may or may not know what they’re talking about.

On the other hand, I don’t have women throwing their knickers at me while I’m tapping away at the laptop here, so its swings and roundabouts, I suppose.

By: Patsey from Ballyfermot

Patsey from Ballyfermot — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:50:04 +0000

“As a journalist, I know I’d get pretty crabby if someone took a pot shot at an article I’d spent an afternoon writing…..But as a journalist and blogger, I don’t have to worry about that”

Ah but yes, you do Eoin. If your pieces don’t get enough reaction from readers or from your editors, you won’t be commissioned again. And you can tell by your traffic stats and number of comments, how a blog post is going down.

That “On The Record” post got over 100 comments – your man is doing his job as always of stirring people up and getting a reaction. All journalists and bloggers would like to do likewise