She is a word slut and a charlatan

Carol Sarler is in today's Times. She's blathering on about the compensation culture and other peoples emotional or spiritual dysfunction of which, she says, people mostly don’t give a toss. Attention paid by people to others that they have a shared experience with is, according to Sarler, nothing more than a love-fest for self-pitying pussies and she suggests that they bottle it all up.

I have two observations to make about Sarler. Firstly I find it astonishing that she is writing for The Times. She is one of the worst breeds of journalists who, contrary to her evangelical calls for the bottling up of emotion, is on the bleeding edge of using emotion to belittle and victimise members of a minority group that she happens not to like very much.

Secondly, she is singularly responsible for opening my eyes to the moral corruption and lust for emotional spin that is deep rooted in much of the mainstream media. A media that I did not pay any significant attention to until the day I chanced upon a wicked and self important hate fest that she had published in the Daily Express, a paper I have not read since.

It is her, and people like her, coupled with the relatively recent ability for the ordinary person to scale the walls of the MSM ivory towers using new technologies that has inspired and morally encouraged many ordinary people to start blogging.

I’ve not met her personally so this, to use her MO, means that I am qualified to call her a vexatious charlatan of the worst kind. A word slut who seems intent on perverting the English language into a twisted and darkened figure of abhorrence when, instead, it should be something in which we rejoice. It is her, and people like her, who are responsible for disfiguring the MSM into the Grendel like creature that it has become today.