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Interesting. Person or persons unknown attempted to draw our attention to the fact that Wales Online has the Christopher Glamorgan sacking story first by posting a comment across almost 20 blogs last week.
This is the Comment:
Did you know Christopher Glamorganshire? What’s the gossip?
with this original article on Wales Online linked on some occasions:
These are 16 or so the blogs where I have seen a comment. Does anyone have the ip address?
“Link” indicates where there was a link to the Wales Online article posted.
- Welsh Blog Index July 10th 13:00 (link)
- Miss Wagstaff Presents July 10 14:34
- Gog in the Bay July 10th 4:17pm
- Guido Fawkes July 10th 8:45pm
- Dizzy Thinks July 10th 20.46
- Welsh Lobbyist July 10th 8:56pm
- Cynical Dragon July 10th 20.59. (broken link) [Update 2]
- Mr Eugenides July 10th 9:12pm (link)
- Spectator Fraser Nelson Article July 10th 9:38pm
- Grendel Grendel July 10th 21:48 (link)
- Iain Dale’s Diary July 10th 9.53pm
- The Thunderdragon July 10th 9.56pm
- Sadie’s Tavern July 10th 21:58 (broken link) [Update 2]
- Paul Flynn MP July 10th 10:04pm
There were also these two where they don’t publish the Timestamp.
- David Jones MP Clwyd West July 10th (link)
- Norfolk Blogger July 10th
- David Cornock July 10th (no link)
I’d guess there may be some more where it didn’t get through.
Neither Orodvicius nor me had this comment on our articles.
Hmmm. More on this later.
[Update 1: 13/7 19:45. Change title to be more representative.]
[Update 2: 14/7 11:30. Two more added - Cynical Dragon and Sadie's Tavern.]
[tags]christopher glamorgan, link spam, wales online[/tags]
Categories: All WW, Internet / Technical, Media, Political Blogging, Wales
neither on mine. Obviously a first-year journo. bit obvious trawling.
The most likely motive I can see is that someone wanted to make sure that the Western Mail (i.e., walesonline.co.uk) got credited with the story.
The selection of blogs is interesting - why The Thunderdragon and Mars Hill, great blogs - but neither really does “Wales” nor is hugely prominent.
A bit more digging before I comment further.
It does seem a bit odd that the poster didn’t leave his comment on any blogs that carried the story with links to the article!
Could the poster be Chris or a friend of his who just wanted to make sure that the story had maximum publicity, rather than a journalist trying to hype up the story?
Alwyn ap Huws last blog post..Lembit loses in love again
I had someone post that at my place. Saw it all over the place as well.
If this is what walesonline thinks ‘citizen journalism’ then they’re doomed.
Davids last blog post..Lembo back on the prowl
Alwyn>
It does seem a bit odd that the poster didn’t leave his comment on any blogs that carried the story with links to the article!
I haven’t actually checked that all the way through yet.
Will update when I have .
Cynical Dragon>I had someone post that at my place. Saw it all over the place as well.
You too? That’s another two this morning that I missed. Ditto Sadie.
I had it aswell. Back in the day I remember that Christopher Glamorgan himself used to troll the blogs leaving the same comments over and over. Just a thought
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>Back in the day I remember that Christopher Glamorgan himself used to troll the blogs leaving the same comments over and over.
That’s quite possible of course, but two things make me put a question mark on the possibility which should be noted for fairness:
1 - Several of the comments are on pieces reporting the story themselves - which tends to point towards an attempt to claim the source not simply push the story.
2 - Several of the comments include broken links (I’ll make a point of going through this evening and noting which ones they are). I’d expect a blogger to be more efficient.
Of course, either it could be a competent conspirator trying to make it look like an inefficient conspiracy, but that way lies a reinforcing spiral of speculation which will end up with someone vanishing up their own bottom - so I’ll leave it that line alone.
I’m really just noting what has happened, making the point to whom it may concern that it is actually far better to do it openly on the blogs (”Oi. Thay’s my scoop”), or privately by email so we can all say “x has asked me to cover this story”.