The replies to this journalist about the Presidents Club story are very satisfying
You will probably have seen by now the story of the Presidents Club, the men-only charity fund raising dinner where waitresses were allegedly groped while very rich guests bid on lots such as plastic surgery for their wives.
The Financial Times story prompted widespread outrage and the club will now shut, with many of the charities returning hundreds of thousands of pounds that it raised.
Except one journalist, Sunday Times columnist Camilla Long, said it was a non-story that wouldn’t change anything.
Why did the FT even do that Presidents Club story? Tons of resources thrown at bears-shit-in-woods clickbait that I can read every other month in Marie Claire
— Camilla Long (@camillalong) January 24, 2018
The replies were one of the most entertaining things about the story.
1.
The outrage/comment that has appeared as a result is your answer, surely?
— Gareth Williams (@trifleking) January 24, 2018
2.
I think it’s mostly a few journos. No one else will give a shit – especially not FT readers
— Camilla Long (@camillalong) January 24, 2018
3.
It’s the FT’s most-read piece of the last 24 hours so clearly plenty give a shit.
— Fiona Sturges (@FionaSturges) January 24, 2018
4.
Clickbait
— Camilla Long (@camillalong) January 24, 2018
5.
Love the way you have your cake and eat it, Camilla. “No one cares”, you say…yet clearly thousands care enough to read it. “Pah, clickbait”, you reply. So people clearly do care. That. Is. Why. They. Click. To. Read. It.
— Ben Littlewood (@littlewoodben) January 24, 2018
6.
You’re Hopkinsing well today.
— Quint (@Indy_Quint) January 24, 2018
7.
It’s titillating clickbait. The end
— Camilla Long (@camillalong) January 24, 2018
8.
Because when the establishment newspaper takes this kind of misogynist bullshit seriously, it’s a clear message across all levels of society. As I’m sure you know.
— Flic Everett (@fliceverett) January 24, 2018
9.
That kind of event goes ahead every night of the year
— Camilla Long (@camillalong) January 24, 2018
10.
No it doesnt. Why r siding with predators
— Nimrod Kamer 🍠 (@nnimrodd) January 24, 2018
11.
There’s nothing about this story that will change anything
— Camilla Long (@camillalong) January 24, 2018
12.
Genuine question, Camilla: why would you even want to be a journalist if you thought that reporting horrific things won’t change anything and that such journalism shouldn’t be published?
— Chas Newkey-Burden (@allthatchas) January 24, 2018
13.
I literally read this story every month. The President’s Club itself has been written about before. Not a story
— Camilla Long (@camillalong) January 24, 2018
Well yes they did write about it before, but they reported it like this.
