Deborah Orr: the poor are stupid

[treelover]

Aye, some very 'intelligent' people amongst the gang culture, gangsters, etc...

 

[Fruitloop]

Anyways, if economic status and intelligence are really linked, why are academics generally badly paid and 'business leaders' not that bright?

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

Everything Deborah Orr writes should just be titled "*facepalm*". She is the Independent's Facepalm Correspondent. Even more so than Johann Hari.

I used to find Johann Hari objectionable. But then he spoke out at an awards ceremony:

Becoming a journalist is nearly impossible "if you don't have rich parents", according to Orwell Prize winner Johann Hari.

The 29-year-old Independent columnist, whose first media job on the New Statesman in 2001 earned him £9,000 a year, spoke out as he received the Orwell Prize for political writing last night.

Johann Hari: says there is a 'layer of exclusion' for young journalists "Basically, if you don't have rich parents, it is increasingly impossible to become a journalist in Britain – and that is really bad, not just for social justice but for the newspapers themselves," Hari told the audience at the Orwell Prize as he accepted the £3,000 award.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/apr/25/pressandpublishing1

He now has my grudging respect. Kudos to him.

 

[treelover]

Actually Hari is one of the few who have spoken out forcefully against the Gov't and the Tories welfare reforms, i think he has a deep commitment to genuine social justice, not the neo-liberal co-opted kind.

 

[butchersapron]

He's still a shit journo, even if this is true (which i doubt)

 

[Idris2002]

It's like that Dr. Johnson line about a dog standing on its hind legs. The surprising thing is that it happens at all.

As for the OP, having taught the idiot children of the Irish, Russian and British oligarchies I can confirm that our rulers are not in fact over-endowed with the grey matter.

 

[JHE]

As for the OP, having taught the idiot children of the Irish, Russian and British oligarchies I can confirm that our rulers are not in fact over-endowed with the grey matter.

It's interesting that you take such a strongly hereditarian view of intellect, judging the rulers by their sprogs.

In any case, I suspect that what's really got your goat is not the sprogs' idiocy, but their laziness and lack of commitment to the wonderful courses you impart.

 

[Idris2002]

It's interesting that you take such a strongly hereditarian view of intellect, judging the rulers by their sprogs.

In any case, I suspect that what's really got your goat is not the sprogs' idiocy, but their laziness and lack of commitment to the wonderful courses you impart.

When I enter the classroom and bend over, I expect my students to bask in the radiant glow of genius that shines from my fundament.

 

[isitme]

Newspapers seem to just employ trolls nowadays, I bet she got loads of clicks on the independent website with that piece so it was deemed a success. The Guardian is the best example, they don't really seem to have anything to say anymore so they just get 'pop' journalists to keep their circulation up

Interestingly enough I bought a copy of The Times the other day and it had some excellent analysis of some issues, and then they just stuck a load of shit that you would expect from The Times in the middle, I imagine on the assumption that you would read that far so we could stick these rubbish journalists in the middle.....

errr, anyway, the poor are stupid, i agree, so are the rich, the super rich are super stupid, but they don't care cos they are all on drugs, all of them. people are fucking stupid

 

[butchersapron]

People like Orr are just the equivalant of the old paid-witnesses. That they're told to say this sort of stuff does represent something though. 'The good old days' are coming back, their approach is threatening a nasty storm. People gettting jittery.

 

[isitme]

that they're told to say this sort of stuff does represent something though.

I agree that it represents something, but it doesn't represent anything new. The cracks are papered over every 10 years or so, then they reappear, I wold say we are living in a house with damp rather than living in a crumbling old castle (to stretch an analogy )