I spy with my little eye…
What’s this in today’s Australian?
In these times of blatant ABC bias and anti-Americanism, at least those decent young chaps at Triple J radio are doing the “right” thing to explain our Government’s attitude to Uncle Sam.
Just yesterday Carmen Spade was heard to say: “Coming up next, some Machine Gun Fellatio.” Our foreign policy in a nutshell, I’d say.
Adam Spencer
Newtown, NSW
Could that be the same Adam Spencer who hosts the Breakfast Show? Oh well, nothing like a bit of free publicity…
Alan managed to get another of his letters printed, too. Don’t you have a life?
One could argue that writing letters to the editor is just a better-published version of ‘blogging, albeit on the newspaper’s time instead of your own.
Of course, one would then have to deal with the fact that (IIRC) newspapers tend to print the most sensational letters, usually the ones written by those they’d consider “cranks”. As such, is it really any sort of compliment to be printed?
I heard Adam on the radio saying he, Wil Anderson and those hopeless afternoon announcers are having a competition to see how many letters they can get published. I didn’t think they’d be using their own names though…
I’ve had letters to the editor published before. It’s not that much of a distinction when you see some of the other letters that get printed.
Adam also uses the name he called himself today - Carmen Spade, and anagram - for other letters to ed. Between him and Will I think they had 4 published today, including on in the Age and 2 in the Daily Telegraph, niether of which I could find.
I remember this incident; as the commenters above noted, it was during Adam and Will’s letter-to-the-editor competition with Mel and Charlie.
What Adam actually *wrote* was:
“In these times of blatant ABC bias and anti-Americanism, at least those decent young chaps at Triple J radio are doing the “right” thing to explain our Government’s attitude to Uncle Sam.
Just yesterday Adam Spencer was heard to say: “Coming up next, some Machine Gun Fellatio.” Our foreign policy in a nutshell, I’d say.
Carmen Spade
Newtown, NSW”
The newspaper, having been informed of the competition by some errant Triple J listener, switched the names.
Aren’t people entitled to their own opinions, after all, it’s still a free country…
Sure, Alison, I don’t have a problem with him writing the letter (I write letters all the time). I’m just surprised that the newspaper didn’t mention his relationship with JJJ, that’s all.
The News Limited letters page editors NEVER call to verify the authorship of a letter, although I heard one of them claim RN’s Media Report that that they do.
This contrasts with the SMH at least who won’t print your letter unless they see your name, address and phone no. in the WP and actually speak to you on the phone. Tuff titties for those who have unlisted nos. I suppose.