Graham Linehan – When Blogging Works
Graham Linehan (Image from 4talentmagazine.com)
I don’t know a lot about the man apart from he wrote and continues to write funny TV shows, and he runs a pretty popular blog called Why, That’s Delightful. Recently he posted a piece about an unforgiveably misguided piece in the Scottish Sunday Express that had to do with teenage survivors of the Dunblane massacre. The thrust of the piece was basically that these survivors were shaming the people who died in the massacre by going out and leading normal lives, including doing such shameful things as going out and having fun and posting about it on Facebook.
Graham was rightly outraged and wrote this blog post. It has since attracted a lot of press and online attention, leading to nearly 10,000 signatures on a petition expressing “deep offense at the article”. The Press Complaints Commision has also announced that it is investigating the Dunblane article, and now apparently the Scottish Sunday Express are due to publish an apology (later today).
Celebs often get an unfair kicking for trying to use their fame and contacts to do some good, so in this case I thought it was worth giving a shout out to one who made a stand and (so it seems) made a difference.