John Beyer playing with himself on Wikipedia
Eagle-eyed MWW contributor Andrew Nixon has noticed that John Beyer, director of Mediawatch-UK, has been tampering with his own entry on Wikipedia. Edits include: adding the word “great” to the name of Mary Whitehouse, removing the words “what it sees as” from “harmful and offensive material”, deleting the link to MWW at the end of the article, and replacing the note about his being a fan of the Black and White Minstrels with this paragraph:
Beyer is a fan of good television and he enjoys good drama, film, news and current affairs. Recent praiseworthy productions include ‘Around the World in 80 Treasures’, ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’, ‘Elizabeth I’, ‘Coast’, ‘Grand Designs’, ‘Gardener’s World’, ‘Tonight with Trevor McDonald’ and ‘Bleak House’.
His complete edits are viewable here.
He has also removed a lot of critical material from the Mediawatch-UK entry. (Thanks again, Andrew)
More digging reveals he’s also had a go at the mediawatch article! http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mediawatch-uk&action=history
Plenty of removal of criticism there!
Oh! The shame! Ha ha ha ha haaaa!
Didn’t something like that happen with the Opus Dei article?
Shit!!
I loved ‘Around the World in 80 Treasures’ and ‘Grand Designs’!!
Bastard!!
How dare he sully the name of Dan Cruickshank!!
>:(
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For some reason, I was worried he’d try and hop on the ‘Doctor Who’ bandwagon with his list of “praiseworthy productions” (tellingly worded, no?). Then I remembered he’d issued a fatwa on it for using the word “spoon”.
God – as a figure of speech – what a numpty!
This story ought to make it into those crappy ‘politics and letters’ gossip columns in the broadsheets, surely?
I’ve added a few words of my own. Don’t suppose they will last long!
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