tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6153845628469776909.post2051959905533423876..comments2024-03-24T09:13:28.758+00:00Comments on The Plashing Vole: Keyboard warrior offers truceThe Plashing Volehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13021407602157515927noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6153845628469776909.post-33324462567157847992013-10-30T15:10:56.025+00:002013-10-30T15:10:56.025+00:00I find you engaging, fascinating, educational but ...I find you engaging, fascinating, educational but most of all human. I read your blog from afar and often use extracts of it to show my GCSE students. This post included! It opens up a lovely debate about freedom of speech and the differences between a a blog post and a newspaper article (this just happens to be a gcse coursework task this year where students choose to write an article or a blog). Your blog has reached people in many ways Vole and I for one would miss it if you stopped being so honest and human. You have taught me so much in past lectures but I would argue more through your thought provoking posts which offer me a viewpoint to agree with, disagree with or to do further resesrch. Many thanks to you and keep up the good work. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18410808539998696342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6153845628469776909.post-79652682651091747632013-10-30T10:08:25.033+00:002013-10-30T10:08:25.033+00:00Thanks all. I'm just perplexed by the hypocris...Thanks all. I'm just perplexed by the hypocrisy of the tabloids at the moment: calling for maximum freedom of speech for them, while working hard to end it for the rest of us. The Plashing Volehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13021407602157515927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6153845628469776909.post-4929477061345494362013-10-29T20:36:02.597+00:002013-10-29T20:36:02.597+00:00About the Sun On Sunday, don' let the bastards...About the Sun On Sunday, don' let the bastards grind you down. They're just trying to divert attention from the fact that the paper's just the New Of the screws renamed.<br /><br />Also if they didn't know that British academia was packed to rafters with socialist, lefties and reds of all shades, they're thicker than most of us believed Murdoch's tabloid journalists were already.<br /><br />On giving your opinion, forget the critics. As long as you define it as your personal opinion, the university can't blame you and, since you're a socialist, you take attacks from the Murdoch press as meaning you've done something right.<br />Arthur Adamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04262761136822253916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6153845628469776909.post-3661967037806028002013-10-29T20:29:07.036+00:002013-10-29T20:29:07.036+00:00This comment has been removed by the author.Arthur Adamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04262761136822253916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6153845628469776909.post-15775184022514806392013-10-29T16:57:04.955+00:002013-10-29T16:57:04.955+00:00I think, for students anyway, it provides a pretty...I think, for students anyway, it provides a pretty useful insight into "how the other half lives" - for want of a better phrase - and detracts from the fear factor by making you seem a bit more human (whether that's a good or a bad thing is up to you!). The point of any blog is air your thoughts freely (and encourage healthy debate, I suppose) and if the Sun on Sunday want to sack off academics or bloggers who disagree with their opinions then they may as well perform a ring around at rival newspaper outlets that are at the opposite end of the political scale to try and get their journalists sacked too. Either everyone has an opinion, whether it's in a newspaper or a blog, or no one does...Wolvensamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11688114224759996740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6153845628469776909.post-13433324948372720702013-10-29T16:38:01.117+00:002013-10-29T16:38:01.117+00:00I'd have thought your students woudl rather kn...I'd have thought your students woudl rather know you tried hard at your job, and felt bad when it didn't go well, and were elated when it did. The alternative is to be taught by an unfeeling machine who has unbending rules and no lightness of touch. That won't develop nuanced critics of the media/cultural world, will it?Ghislaine Dellnoreply@blogger.com