This is really quite weird, so I thought I’d share it.
Some time back, I took issue with a hack called Duncan Castles. Duncan was so put out that he spent the following day or two posting the most tedious stream of URLS to what he clearly felt was “The Very Best Of Dunc” in order to somehow make himself look less awful. The public meltdown died off, as I say, after a day or two.
Or so we all thought!
Habib, a regular contributor to both the blog and yes, that’s right laydees …the podcast, has just discovered that Castles wasn’t happy with the debate just being confined to the blog.
So he went to the extraordinary lengths of tracking Habib down at his online place of work! Castles then submitted this, a cut and paste of Habib’s comment from the 9th of December – via the contact form!
Er… he did this on the the 17th of January.
Habib’s quote in orange, Duncan’s deathly question in bold black.
Habib
December 9, 2013 at 6:32 pmI can’t believe people are defending character assassination as “duty to report”. For that you need proof not a “friend” who told you.
Journalists are tight and masters of misdirection. Castles was asked to go a favour by the lobby keeping the heat on AVB and he duly obliged. Them he threw in a few smokescreen Facebook twitter comments and says “don’t shoot the manager”.
The piece he published had as much journalistic integrity as Susan Boyle has wit. It had zero logical framework. It was slander weaved together under the barest pretence.”
Just wondering if you’d like to reconsider this?
Best, Duncan Castles
I’m not looking to reopen a dialogue with Duncan, rather to merely warn readers that should they choose to interact with him online, he could well hunt you down.
He could hunt you down, and privately ask for you to reconsider anything that you said publicly, that he disagreed with.
He could wait over a month before coming to find you. But find you he will.
It isn’t over until Duncan Castles says it is.
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