Journalists Suck
Posted at 08:17:00
on Fri, August 11th 2006 by graham
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I dislike journalists on principle. I'm sure that a lot of them are nice people with, heaven forfend, morals, but nevertheless when someone tells me that they're a journalist I tend to back away a couple of steps, look them up and down and, I'm sorry to say, stop trusting them more or less at all.
Which is why I wasn't terribly surprised when a Sunday newspaper doorstepped and 'outed' Abby Lee, known to the blogosphere as the Girl With a One-track Mind, one of the most honest, intelligent and funny bloggers whose writings I've ever had the privilege of reading. Abby did nothing more outrageous than be comfortable with herself and her sexuality and honest about it to boot. Of course, said paper made it sound as though she was somehow abnormal, a freak of nature to be a woman and, gasp, a sexual entity in her own right.
I shall not belabour my point here by saying anything other than this is fucking bullshit.
Abby has subsequently given an interview to the Guardian, in which I'm pleased to say that she comes off incredibly well and the journalists (in the general sense; the interviewer seems to be on her side, I'm pleased to say) come off looking like the kind of schoolyard tattletales and bullies who can't find any way to make themselves popular other than by drawing attention to - and making pointed comments about - the proclivities of others. God forbid that people should have different attitudes or, worse, be enlightened in this day and age.
Anyway, I'm just writing this post to say that as far as I'm concerned at least, Abby won. The journalists can crawl back under their stone and carry on doing whatever it is they do, but I'd rather know one Girl than I would a thousand of those little parasites.
My copy of Girl With a One-track Mind, published by Ebury Press, will be arriving dans le matin. I'm sure it'll be every bit as good as the blog, and I'd like to take the opportunity to thank Abby for being such a wonderful writer.
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