A facebook group has been launched to stop Rod Liddle from becoming Editor of the Independent newspaper. Liddle is renowned for a series of offensive outbursts.
A facebook group has been launched with the aim of stopping Rod Liddle from becoming Editor of the Independent newspaper. The former Today programme editor is renowned for his offensives outbursts.
The Guardian reported on Friday that Rod Liddle was being lined up to edit the newspaper. Alex Higgins, who blogs at Bring on the Revolution, acted quickly to set up a facebook group detailing Rod Liddle’s views and warning “If Rod Liddle becomes editor of The Independent, I will not buy it again.”
Higgins writes:
“Rod Liddle would be a disappointing choice for the ‘Daily Telegraph’ or the ‘Daily Mail’. For the ‘Independent’, it represents a direct affront to the readership.
“Many ‘Independent’ readers were already disappointed by the direction the paper had taken under Roger Alton, and we absolutely should not accept the appointment of Rod Liddle.”
He goes on to detail many of Liddle’s positions including:
– decrying “Muslim Savages“
– mocking the black British community for merely producing “rap music” and “goat curry“
– denying the evidence for Anthropogenic Global Warming theory
– a series of sexist articles and views including “So – Harriet Harman, then. Would you? I mean after a few beers obviously, not while you were sober.”
UPDATE 18.04
The facebook group has now attracted well over 1,000 people in under 24 hours.
48 Responses to “Stop Rod Liddle”
Anon E Mouse
David and Shamik – As usual make your personal insults but NEVER answer the points made here.
Why not answer Johns point on execution – such as homosexuals being stoned to death for the sexual orientation they were born with?
Somehow you two seem unable to condemn that kind of behaviour and just make weak comments about free speech.
And Shamik after some of the remarks I read recently on your personal blog it’s small wonder people wish to remain anonymous in their responses to you.
With the views you both hold neither of you two are supporters of the same Labour Party I am.
Come back Deggsy – all is forgiven….
Polaris
Dave, Shamik and Will – how exactly does “Fighting against Media Manipulation” correlate to a campaign to pick the editor of a national newspaper to suit the desire for one loosely allied group of facebook users trying to block an appointment of an editor with whom they have some real/imagined ideological difference?
It’s not a left vs right spat, it’s a simple freedom of expression issue, surely.
And I am not a “right wing” anything, or “left wing” for that matter, just a simple, reasonably well educated anarchist…
Polaris
It’s a simple choice of supporting and independent press, or not.
I would not feel comfortable campaigning against a left wing or right wing editor being appointed to any independent publication – who do you think you are?
So a left leaning editor, only, will be acceptable to you, such outrageous dogma! Intolerant zealots, to a man…
Old Holborn
Has Kerry McCarthy joined your facebook group Will?
It would be a shame if she didn’t, seeing as how she is the MP for Britain’s most multicultural Road, full of Hip Hop, Rap, goat curry, Qat and Somali Mosques.
“The road in Bristol’s Easton district has suffered 915 crimes in seven months – that’s SIX for every metre it stretches.”
Never twitters that, does she?
http://www.people.co.uk/news/news/tm_objectid=16254597&method=full&siteid=93463-name_page.html
Paul
I’ve no problem with a Facebook group, but I’d much rather see the NUJ backing it’s members at the Indie in telling the new owner where he can stick Liddle.