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Sunday, February 17th, 2008
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11:27p - People being mean on the internets shocker.
Our sorry tale of internet meanies starts on the Guardian's CiF section, where 19-year-old Max Grogarty writes the first in a planned series of blogs about his fondness for skinny jeans and gap year travel plans. It's, um, not very good, and CiF readers waste no time telling him so.
In fact, CiF readers feel the article is so bad, they suspect he could only have got published if he was related to someone at the Guardian. And waddya know! Turns out that Max is the son of Paul Gogarty, who writes travel articles for the Guardian. A lot of people call nepotism. In fact, they're so outraged that Paul Grogarty's name makes it into the Wikipedia entry on nepotism.
Is it all down to Daddy that Max got his big break? Fortunately, Max's dad steps in to share his thoughts:
( Cut for oppreshun )
ETA Courtesy of ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif) apoplexia The Guardian takes their tale of Cyber-bullying woe to BBC Breakfast
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