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NTSCMP update

From the moribund and moronic NTSCMP forum, we hear from someone who believes what they read on IceRed:

Steve  posted 2/29/04 6:13 AM    
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On one of the forum some one boasts of drugging and raping women. Would that not require the ICERED site to inform the police and supply an ISP?

Supply an ISP? What does that mean? Oh, IP address…

IceRed was the forum where NTSCMP’s “founding editor” tried to promote his blog and made a total fool of himself. Mysteriously, all the links from NTSCMP disappeared very quickly. IceRed is probably even sadder than NTSCMP, with about as much credibility.

Meanwhile, the wannabe bloggers from NTSCMP are now offering to host blogs for 3 months:

SERIOUS OFFER. LIKE TO HAVE YOUR OWN INDEPENDENT BLOG HOSTED ON NTSCMP? WE WILL POST, MAINTAIN, ILLUSTRATE AND LAY IT OUT FOR YOU FREE FOR THREE MONTHS. REALLY. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS SEND THE COPY. WE WILL DO THE REST

I cannot begin to imagine why anyone would want to have their blog hosted by a website that thinks that all blogs are boring, still less to have it laid out by people who are obviously colour-blind. Very puzzling. Really.

The latest hilarious photo joke is based on the highly original idea that Henry Tang resembles a horse. Biting satire, eh?

Incidentally, you’ve got to love a site that is “dedicated to press freedom” but which prints a disclaimer and copyright notice like this:

DISCLAIMER: Dedicated to press freedom and free expression. Right of reply and correction guaranteed. Published in the public interest in New York, NY, USA. Dr George Adams, the founding editor, is not to be identified as author, editor, publisher or distributor of all or part of this publication. He is not the owner or controller or editor of the web site. © 1995-2004 NTSCMP.

I’d be fascinated to know who is the owner/controller/editor of this site if it isn’t George Adams, and why, if someone else is in charge, George felt the need to warn his dozens of readers when he went off on holiday to Switzerland.

It’s a blog, George. Just admit it and you’ll feel much better.

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4 responses to “NTSCMP update”

  1. BWG avatar
    BWG

    George is too busy trying to persuade people that blogs are boring instead of making his own blog interesting. One of the major rules of salesmanship is not to knock the competition—you only make them look stronger. But he doesn’t get this.
    And yes, George has a history of quickly hiding any criticisms of him and his site, especially when he has been shown up or proven dead wrong about his accusations. He loves to dish it out but is incredibly thin-skinned when it boomerangs and blows up in his face.
    His favourite strategy is to attack bloggers (and my site in particular), in the hopes of gaining free publicity. He did the same thing with Fenby of the SCMP, who should have just kept ignoring him. If you ignore him for too long, he’ll start sending e-mail, trying to bait you into a response. George seems to believe that repeating the same thing over and over again will eventually convince people it’s true: the Josef Goebbels approach. He was even called out for this behaviour during the RTHK interview with Vines and Vittachi.

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  2. Chris avatar
    Chris

    Absolutely right about Jonathan Fenby – he should have ignored NTSCMP rather than giving him the oxygen of publicity.
    Obviously he attacks the sites with the most traffic in the hope that they will respond and give him more publicity. The stupid thing is that if he didn’t antagonize bloggers he would probably get more publicity! I guess he’s not bright enough to realize that! Or perhaps he just has to direct his anger somewhere, and we are the most convenient target.

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  3. BWG avatar
    BWG

    If that’s the case one must wonder why he’s so angry.
    Maybe bitter would be a better word. Either way, you’re right. He would be far better off if he learned how to make friends.
    I’d suggest rememdial time in a kindergarten, but he’d probably just make the little tykes cry.

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  4. Simon World avatar
    Simon World

    Blogwatch

    Welcome to the one and only edition of Blogwatch at this site. Today we look at a Hong Kong blog by George Adams called NOT The South China Morning Post which bills itself as the online satirical blog newspaper for Hong Kong committed to press freedom….

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