Holy smoke! The curse of Forest strikes again
Thursday, June 19, 2014 at 9:22 I don't like to see anyone lose their job.
I'm finding it hard though to shed too many tears for journalist Damian Thompson who left the Daily Telegraph yesterday.
A few months ago the paper's (former) blog editor was involved in a heated exchange of tweets with Chris Snowdon.
It began with Thompson expressing support for a post summarised by the headline:
Taxing sugar probably will work, and it's not an attack on our 'freedom'.
When Snowdon took issue with this he was taunted by Thompson who dismissed his argument by tweeting:
You sound like those Forest people.
Back came Snowdon:
Those Forest people have long warned that there was a slippery slope leading to exactly this kind of nonsense. They were mocked.
To which Thompson replied:
Countless people now living would be dead from smoking if Forest had had its way.
How crass and sanctimonious is that?
Now he's left, his departure marked by this tweet:
Announcement: I've left the Telegraph in an entirely amicable parting of the ways. That's all for now, but watch this space, dudes :)
Dudes? The man is 52.
PS. To read the full Thompson-Snowdon exchange on Twitter click here.
Reader Comments (2)
Good riddance. Smokerphobics, xenophobics, Islamophobics and homophobics should not be working in main stream media where they can infect others with their own vile prejudices.
Maybe the Telegraph will now employ someone who recognises that there are 2 sides to every story and propaganda is not fact.
Funny, isn’t it, how all these people who claim to have left places “amicably” have always done so remarkably suddenly and, seemingly, with no plans in place for their next job (or else why the “that’s all for now?”). Couldn’t possibly be trying to mask a “jump before I was pushed” scenario, could we? No, surely not?