GPY&R staffer accuses journalist of defaming her over ‘porn posts’ story
One of the GPY&R staffers targeted in a story linking the agency to the Defence Force Skype sex scandal has accused the journalist who wrote the story of misinformation and dragging her reputation through “through a 1950s rectitude filter”.
In a blog posting published today, Tiphereth Gloria fired back at News Ltd’s defence writer Ian McPhedran who broke the original story.
In the story, McPhedran alleged that Gloria’s Tumblr blog “features images of women in compromising situations, pornographic photos and other material”
Gloria has today republished all of those postings, along with their context. She said that, as with much Tumblr content, she was reposting material first created elsewhere and that none of it was actually pornographic in nature anyway.
After the news story was posted a week ago it was also picked up by TV news.
Gloria said the press “intentionally omitted the images and commentary that accompanied the blog posts in question”.
She said: “In summary, my blog posts were taken out of context described inaccurately, with deliberate intent to mislead the public, defaming me in the process.”
At the time of posting McPhedran was not answering calls to his office line.
the truth at last. Ian was the one with something to hide:
the innocent pictures!
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LOVE that she referred to ‘a book sold pubicly on Amazon’ when explaining her sex toy post. Extra points for that one.
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Shit just got awesome.
Good on Tiphereth for defending herself.
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um. cos it WAS on Amazon? and Amazon IS public? she also expressed disdain in the book – a comment that was also left out of the article.
as with all Ian’s out-of-context accusations.
GO TIP!
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Strong response, Tip. Hold my hat off to you, and I am particularly fond of “1950s rectitude filter”… such an apt description 🙂
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So old geezer reporter trying to make his boring Defence journalism sensational! Nice one mate. Back to writing about battleships buddy….
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In the 1950s Ian McPhedran was going “through a 1850s rectitude filter”…
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“BEEP. Ian can’t take your calls right now, he’s busy fabricating a sex scandal about toy sailing boats at the main pond in Victoria Park, Adelaide. Leave your name and number, and he’ll mention you in his next slanderous article. BEEP.”
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It seems the original News Ltd story has been taken down from all their sites when I just looked for it? If so, well done Tip!
Still, if News Ltd actually believed in their own stories and Ian McPhedran’s research and reporting (which is questionable anyway in this case), then they would keep them up there in the face of controversy? Hmmmm…….
Media watch anybody?…lol
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well done Tip, for showing the idiocy of what passes for journalism in this country.
non-story by a non-journo not spending more than a few moments to discover if there is any story at all.
There’s better reporting on Australian topics in offshore channels, like the guardian and bbc. why are we so lame at reporting our own news to our own people?
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@ Anonymous30 May 111:53 pm ; please note the spelling of public vs pubic.
Thanks
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Madison: ahhh! sorry – v funny pickup!
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Media Watch has been tipped off if you’ll pardon the pun.
Let’s see if they take it up.
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@Andy
..more like HACKwatch…
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Citizen K @ 3.31pm.
Why would you say ‘well done Tip’
What has she done well?
Over the past week, Australia has lost another soldier, hero, in Afghanistan and here you are praising the idiotic behaviour of advertising muppets tasked with doing a serious review into a serious issue within the Defence Force.
Their behaviour whether online of offline is immature and ridiculous when you consider the job they are expected to be undertaking for the ADF.
Dont all ‘digital strategists’ say your online personality reflects your realworld persona? isnt social media meant to be ‘authentic’?
If it is authentic then the behaviour of ‘Tip’ and the other clowns is poor at best.
They should be approaching this job with the respect and sense of dignity it deserves.
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@ Frank Delano
the “well done Tip” was me congratulating Tip on defending the gross misrepresentation she received at the hands of an unprofessional hack, that wasn’t apologised for, even though they later retracted the story.
Of course the ADF is involved in very serious work. but I don’t see what Tip did wrong by having a personal life with personal opinions about the world. Tip is always authentic in her Social Media posts, which should be commended in this era of Personal Brand Managers.
Where exactly has she gone wrong? Are you suggesting she should have deleted her personal life for the sake of her client? OIf so, I hardly count that as “authentic”.
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oh god, it’s Ian’s best friend everyone! run away before he bores you to death with his 1950s rectum.
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Frank: Tip was slandered unfairly; it’s pretty clear once you see the actual blog posts your buddy Ian omitted. She has defended herself well, and now it’s Ian’s turn to look like a dick. FAIR DIBS!
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Frank, I think you have a fair point in regards to the ADF and what they do. Its terrible that we have lost yet another soldier in a questionable war, but what we have here is two different issues.
The ADF issue aside, the issue noted on this blog is that a journalist has made accusations against a person and in an effort to get maximum effect to his story, has left out a large amount of context to show a highly unbalanced article.
I would like to think a Journo like Ian would show an even playing field as best he can without stooping to say Tip was freely blogging “porn” and bringing her character into question without showing the reader the reality of the situation.
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well said Andy – there was no behavioural wrongdoing on her part, as anyone reading her blog and seeing the ACTUAL pictures can tell.
everyone has a right to defend themselves against allegations that defame their character.
and this particular defence is calm and considered and transparent.
three things that Ian’s sensationalist article certainly weren’t.
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Props to Madison for picking up my pubic point (god I love alliteration – wish your name was Paula).
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Damn you Tiphereth, I just checked and you fixed your typo!!!!!!! Where’s your sense of humour, girlfriend?
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Frank: stick to this story.
Fact 1: there was no porn.
Fact 2: Ian said there was.
Fact 3: he wrote this publicly.
Fact 4: libel.
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I believe Citizen K’s reply to Frank Delano’s comments are known in the language of these young people on socially medium as being ‘PWNED’. Polite applause all round.
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@Simon
I believe it was Tip who did the PWNing, but thanks for the kudos all the same, Simon.
Nothing like the hint of controversy to magic a story out of nothing, for the ravenous titillation of the “righteously indignant”.
zzzzzz
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annnnnnnnd sleep.
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Tipereth and Kathy Griffin – separated at birth?
http://www.evilbeetgossip.com/.....riffin.jpg
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Hey Tip – read your blog post – I would send a solictor’s letter to News Ltd asking for an apology and damages for the harm your reputation has suffered.
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@Sue
…or at least an apology, hey?
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listen to Sue.
Sue.
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@Sue
No one cares about this outside of the echo chamber that is your ‘social media community’.
How about GPY&R including Tip Glorious admit they’re out of their depth doing this review and actually just get back to work.
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wrong. it was on the news. channel 10 included.
when that happens, it becomes public doman.
intelligent thoughts don’t occur outside of the echo chamber that is your ‘brain’.
how about you admitting you’re an asswipe and getting back to licking pavements.
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and it’s ‘Gloria’.
moron.
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@Anonymous, @anon
*miaow*
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For what it’s worth, people, (I’m, looking at you @anon) stop tagging “community” on the end of everything, as if there were some homogeneous “community:” of SM users.
There is no “gay community”, “Muslim community”, “indigenous community”, nor “social media community”, and addressing a group in such way is disingenuous.
There are, t’is true, Gay people, Muslims, Indigenous persons, and Social media users, but you can’t put describe them as a community as much as people with one commonality. Subtle difference.
happy friday!
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Porn? Is somebody wrongfully accusing someone else of writing about porn? Far out! Get outdoors people and enjoy the sunshine! Darwin’s full of “sunshine’s”…
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