{"id":327,"date":"2006-07-05T15:15:05","date_gmt":"2006-07-05T15:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=327"},"modified":"2006-07-05T15:15:57","modified_gmt":"2006-07-05T15:15:57","slug":"comment-is-pointless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=327","title":{"rendered":"Comment is pointless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/commentisfree.guardian.co.uk\/haifa_zangana\/2006\/07\/the_personality_disorder_of_th.html\">This<\/a> [<strong>Guardian: Comment Is Free<\/strong>] site is like the temple of a new religion where followers shriek and howl themselves into a maniacal trance. The Guardian is now more a mad cult than a newspaper.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The Grauniad is being <em>treated<\/em> like a mad cult by it&#8217;s posters who imagine that they are &#8216;contributing&#8217;, and not really being duped into believing that their opinion counts.<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian itself is simply thrashing about trying to convince itself that it retains it&#8217;s importance, generating statistics of user interaction rates and the like to argue it&#8217;s case. Unfortunately for the Guardian, these users are naught but middle-brow sheep deluding themselves that they are more important than readers of the Sun. But the Guardian knows this.<\/p>\n<p>And so do you. You&#8217;ve been told before.<\/p>\n<p>But I can&#8217;t point you to where&#8230; &#8216;cos I don&#8217;t know how to use the internet!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This [Guardian: Comment Is Free] site is like the temple of a new religion where followers shriek and howl themselves into a maniacal trance. The Guardian is now more a mad cult than a newspaper. [&#8230;] The Grauniad is being treated like a mad cult by it&#8217;s posters who imagine that they are &#8216;contributing&#8217;, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}