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Moonhead -> RE: A day in the life ......... (6/3/2011 5:24:46 AM)
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ORIGINAL: WantsOfTheFlesh
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ORIGINAL: Moonhead
Burchill has spent most of her career as a columnist lying through her teeth and altering facts in hindsight to make herself look better. The column I've linked to is an obvious case of this, particularly as her complaints about liberal jewbashing appears to be more an excuse to have a go at Richard Ingrams than anything else.
Columnists http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columnist are also journalists. So you think it is an excuse to bash Ingrams? She has written bout this topic on a few occasions. You misled with a quote from her article to make her look anti-Semitic. You dislike her a lot which means you read anything she did negatively so your views may be taken with a pinch o' salt.
Fine. If my opinion of Burchill's insincerity isn't adequete for you, perhaps you'll take wiki's word for it.
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ORIGINAL: How la Burch left the Gaurdian over a pay squabble, joined the Times, was fired by the Times, and then rejoined the repulsively antisemtic Guardian...
For five years until 2003 Burchill wrote a weekly column in The Guardian. Appointed in 1998 by Orr, while editor of the Guardian Weekend supplement, Burchill's career was in trouble; she had been sacked by the revived Punch magazine. Burchill frequently thanks Orr for rescuing her. One of the pieces she wrote for The Guardian was in reaction to the murder of BBC TV presenter Jill Dando in 1999. She compared the shock of Dando's murder to finding a "tarantula in a punnet full of strawberries". In 2002 she narrowly escaped prosecution for incitement to racial hatred, "following a Guardian column where she described Ireland as being synonymous with child molestation, Nazi-sympathising, and the oppression of women."
Burchill left The Guardian acrimoniously, saying in an interview that they had offered her a sofa in lieu of a pay rise. She claims to have left the newspaper in protest at what she saw as its "vile anti-Semitism".
She moved to The Times, who were more willing to meet her demands, doubling her previous salary at the Guardian. Shortly after starting her weekly column, she referred to George Galloway, but appeared to confuse him with former MP Ron Brown, reporting the misdeeds of Brown as those of Galloway, "he incited Arabs to fight British troops in Iraq". Galloway threatened legal action which was averted when she apologised and The Times paid damages.
In 2006 The Times dropped her Saturday column, and arranged a more flexible arrangement with Burchill writing for the daily paper. Later it emerged during a Guardian interview, published on 4 August 2008, that eventually she "was given the jolly old heave ho" by The Times, and paid off for the last year of her three year contract, still receiving the £300,000 she would have earned if she had been obliged to provide copy. She later described her columns for her abbreviated Times contract, which ended abruptly in 2007, thus: "I was totally taking the piss. I didn't spend much time on them and they were such arrant crap."
In February 2006, she announced plans for a year's sabbatical from journalism, planning, among other things, to study theology. She had previously, in 1999, 'found God', and become a Lutheran. In June 2007, she announced that she would not be returning to journalism, but instead concentrate on writing books and TV scripts and finally undertake a theology degree, but she returned to writing for The Guardian newspaper.
(In the light of the Lutheran conversion, and the antisemitism thing, is it worth pointing out that she's been blathering about converting to Judaism for the last couple of years?)
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