{"id":2069,"date":"2009-02-26T17:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T17:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2009\/02\/hoisted-on-their-own-petard\/"},"modified":"2009-02-26T17:02:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T17:02:00","slug":"hoisted-on-their-own-petard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2009\/02\/hoisted-on-their-own-petard.html","title":{"rendered":"Hoisted on Their Own Petard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

The title is a great Anglicism meaning they were blasted by their own firework, or \u2018it all backfired\u2019.<\/p>\n

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For readers who have missed this fascinating soap opera, The Tablet <\/span>is a left wing English \u2018Catholic\u2019 weekly that\u2019s been around a long time and thinks it is an important voice of English Catholicism. Last week one of their writers called Elena Curti wrote a petty little piece needlessly attacking traditionalist priest and popular blogger, Fr. Finigan.<\/div>\n
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The piece was savaged by blogger Damian Thompson<\/a> and then Fr. Z picked up the story. Fr.Z pointed out that The Tablet <\/span>has a circulation of 22,000. (I know from seven years of visiting Catholic Churches across England that a huge number of these remain unsold at the back of the church each week) Anyway, Fr.Z pointed out that he has 25,000 hits to his blog daily!<\/span><\/div>\n
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Fr.Finigan posted a line by line reply to the article and then was slapped down by The Tablet\u2019s<\/span>\u00a0feminist editor and her lawyers for infringement of copyright. So he re-published a \u2018legal\u2019 version of his reply here.<\/a><\/div>\n
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Fr Finigan now posts these statistics<\/a>\u00a0to show that his own blog (thanks to the publicity) has had 25,000 hits this week. In the meantime a collection is being taken for Fr.Finigan to buy new traddy vestments (Curti criticized him for spending parish money on vestments) I reckon the Tabletistas are kicking themselves. All Elena Curti has done is raised Fr. Finigan\u2019s popularity, made him a minor media martyr and made even more people annoyed and fed up with The Tablet<\/span>.<\/div>\n
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When are the old fashioned print media people going to realize that a revolution is going on and that nobody of the younger generation reads their weary old newsprint?<\/div>\n
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I predict that The Tablet\u2019s <\/span>days are numbered, and unless they go over to an online edition which is free (as Crisis magazine has done) they\u2019ll soon go under\u2013and not a day too soon in my opinion, because along with their demise will also be the death of one more branch of the liberal media\u2019s stranglehold on the modern propaganda machine.<\/div>\n
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Long live blogging!<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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