The most important point is that, while you could make a political criticism of Hari, and many people have done so, over the years, what’s done for him is professional criticism. Namely, not his opinions but his basic journalistic standards. In fact, more so as the criticism has centred on the technical journalistic side. Tim Worstall has been saying for ages that Hari’s economic writing was wrong not just ideologically but in terms of basic facts, but that was easily dismissed on the grounds that Tim is one of these mad free marketeers and he would say that, wouldn’t he?
If I can get it back to the top of my pile of things to do there might even be an e-book on this point.
Being wrong, partial and ill-informed hasn’t hurt your friend Mr Murphy. Sadly Hari has enough nodding dogs who’ll continue to defend and agree with him, but luckily he’ll never need to be taken seriously by anyone else.
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