Sharpe's Opinion
Tuesday, 13th Oct, 2009
Blog Reactions to the Carter-Ruck Gagging Order
I have genuinely never seen such a massive and fast reaction to a news story from the blogosphere before. Don’t take my word for it though, have a look for yourself.1
Blog posts in that list include: Guido Fawkes, Mr Eugenides, Devils Kitchen, Harry’s Place, Chicken Yoghurt, Daniel1979, Dizzy Thinks, Raedwald, Stephen’s Linlithgow Journal, Liberal Democrat Voice, Liberal England, The Lone Voice, Alex Massie (notable since this was the first ‘mainstream media’ coverage of this story), Next Left, Peter Black AM, Iain Dale, Subrosa, Ministry of Truth, Me, Tory Politico and Old Holborn.
Richard Wilson has the honour of being first on the case, though. He’d spotted the story and identified the question half an hour before anyone else.
Pretty impressive, this. As JuliaM just commented, it’s the full-on Streisand Effect.
UPDATE: And now, according to the Twitterati, Carter-Ruck have given in and are no longer gagging the Guardian. I call that a victory, don’t you?
- The screenshot is from Fever, which lists stories that lots of people are linking to, and pushes the most-linked stories to the top of the list. The temperature scores are sort of analogous to human bpody temperatures, and I’ve never seen one go about 46°C before… [↩]
Comments
Heh. I’m proud of the fact that I have never once edited anything on Wikipedia and I never intend to.
But somebody definitely should 
I haven’t either… will get Mat to do it when he gets out of the bath if nobody else does it first.
It was a very swift response. I logged off at about 10.15pm last night and went to bed, and by the time I got to work and was logged in at 7.15am it was all pretty much wrapped up.
“Richard Wilson has the honour of being first on the case, though. He’d spotted the story and identified the question half an hour before anyone else.”
Do you fancy telling Wikipedia that, because they are giving the credit to Guido.
Jennie
October 13, 2009 at 1:49 pm