Originally Posted by FODPlod
his most effective publicity managers are those, mainly of the light blue persuasion, who continue to draw attention to him purely to insult him. I think this is the fifth such thread on here.
People keep banging on this line but I would simply observe that, during Op ELLAMY, a particularly inaccurate set of costings and analysis from his blog was picked up by the press (directly from his blog, no-one had posted it here first; this was about the same time as the 'RAF in hotels in Italy' scoop) and led directly to a flurry of entirely nugatory HQ staff work being directed merely to rebut it to press and parliament alike - needless to say, no 'clarification' was ever published in the media. So I would say that the press were far more effective than anyone on PPrune on that occasion, and the reason why people keep anti-posting here is to demonstrate to any passing journos that there are other professional views besides Sharkey's, and that cut-and-pasting his material into the papers might not necessarily be a good idea.