I have decided to steer clear of the two main blogsites, The Standard and Kiwiblog, for a couple of days.
The level of debate on both sites over the last day or so has reached an all time low. Yesterday David Farrar launched a quite vicious and mostly* unwarranted attack on "Eddie", the anonymous blogger on The Standard whose post on Murray McCully embarrassed the Foreign Minister. Farrar was wrong to claim Eddie's story was a beat-up, because the media thought it was newsworthy, and McCully himself is now desperately trying to get rid of the shares he got caught with.
Then Lynn on The Standard launched a full scale assault on Farrar, calling him an idiot and a hypocrite.
The comments sections of each blog post are truly awful.
This is childish name-calling at its worst, and will no doubt reinforce the negative view each tribe has of the other.
People, can't we all just get along?
* The use of the "corruption" tag on Eddie's article was unwarranted and inappropriate.
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