Guardian: sneaky bastards. posted by Richard Seymour

So, The Guardian thinks it can slip one past me just because I don't buy their shitty Saturday edition with all its additional supplements and plastic cover? No chance: I have a dense network of informants who forward information to me all day, every day. When Private Eye did my story on Scotland on Sunday's fake G8 story, I was told. When they credited China's story about IEM trying to cover up its involvement in the Katrina disaster, guess who was the first to know. And, why, just this morning, I was told that The Guardian had excerpted my article on l'affair Chomsky on page 36 of their paper edition (the wanky 'Saturday Web Page' bit), but it's not online - hence, no link. Bastards. And it's 'lenin' with a small 'l', numpties.

More importantly, however, Mark at Interbreeding will need to be told that his post on the matter was excerpted twice - he doesn't read The Guardian because of something to do with it being written and read by bourgeois liberal scum. Hey, I'm just reporting what he said. And the Italian film maker who writes for The Cat's Dream, Gabriele Zamparini, get's a look-in as well, as does the odious Mr Kampf. Some other witch who appears to be related to Norman Johnson also gets a plug, but I'm not linking her.

Of course, The Guardian will doubtless consider the minor excerpting of some critical blogging commentary an example and demonstration of its commitment to self-scrutiny and 'balance' or whatever the fuck the bromide is these days. What's worth noting is that they have not acknowledged that the interview specifically smeared Chomsky by attributing to him views that he did not hold: Smearing Chomsky; Diana Johnstone's letter to The Guardian. That is to say, none of their excerpts included the words "Emma Brockes fabricated Noam Chomsky's position on Srebrenica" appear.

I suppose I'm partly to blame, for not having put those words in my blog - but if I had, would they have excerpted such a phrase? Obviously, as they specifically pressured Chomsky not to include a reference to Brockes' fabrications in his letter, I assume not.

So, super-stardom be damned. Next time The Guardian wants a sample from me, they can have a soupcon of my copious vomit.