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Twandbags #2: Monkey's occasional series on Twitter dust-ups returns, although with an example where only one side of the argument is taking place on Twitter. @GuidoFawkes, possibly emboldened his elevation from Daily Star Sunday columnist to the giddy heights of the Sun's Sunday edition, has moved on from trash-talking about the perceived shortcomings of rival political bloggers, turning his guns on @PrivateEyeNews instead. The opening salvo "Private Eye: News Two Weeks Past Its Sell-By-Date", highlighted what Guido claimed to be the Eye's "shameless pilfering of stories that had previously appeared on this blog" – including the fact that Trinity Mirror boss Simon Fox used to run HMV (a geniune scoop, that – the Pulitzer's in the post). The Eye responded in print by congratulating Paul Staines, aka Guido, on his Sun column – but wondered why, if he's got such a downer on the "dead tree press", he gave the story on the Damian McBride/Derek Draper emails to the Sunday Times and News of the World? Guido was straight back on the case with "Private Eye: Now Two Months Past Its Sell-By-Date". But hang on a mo – could the explanation be that rather than ripping stories off Guido, the Eye has its own independent sources? After all, when Times journalist @billykenber on Monday accused Guido of failing to credit him for a Eastleigh byelection story, he replied (after the usual warm Guido welcome for anyone contradicting him: "Who the fuck are you?"): "Well we got it from LibDem source." So there you have it.Twandbags #2: Monkey's occasional series on Twitter dust-ups returns, although with an example where only one side of the argument is taking place on Twitter. @GuidoFawkes, possibly emboldened his elevation from Daily Star Sunday columnist to the giddy heights of the Sun's Sunday edition, has moved on from trash-talking about the perceived shortcomings of rival political bloggers, turning his guns on @PrivateEyeNews instead. The opening salvo "Private Eye: News Two Weeks Past Its Sell-By-Date", highlighted what Guido claimed to be the Eye's "shameless pilfering of stories that had previously appeared on this blog" – including the fact that Trinity Mirror boss Simon Fox used to run HMV (a geniune scoop, that – the Pulitzer's in the post). The Eye responded in print by congratulating Paul Staines, aka Guido, on his Sun column – but wondered why, if he's got such a downer on the "dead tree press", he gave the story on the Damian McBride/Derek Draper emails to the Sunday Times and News of the World? Guido was straight back on the case with "Private Eye: Now Two Months Past Its Sell-By-Date". But hang on a mo – could the explanation be that rather than ripping stories off Guido, the Eye has its own independent sources? After all, when Times journalist @billykenber on Monday accused Guido of failing to credit him for a Eastleigh byelection story, he replied (after the usual warm Guido welcome for anyone contradicting him: "Who the fuck are you?"): "Well we got it from LibDem source." So there you have it.
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