Update 06/01/13: Cristina’s husband has e-mailed me to say that the quote in The Independent screen-capped below is incorrect and that she was not fired from the Catholic Herald. The story in The Independent has since the original writing of this blog been removed from their website. I see no reason not to take him at his word and therefore please disregard the premise of this post and take it that Cristina Odone was not fired from the Catholic Herald at any point.
I’ll leave the original post up as an example that you apparently can’t even trust a national newspaper.
This blog post was written in good faith using what appeared to be direct quotes from the same person that contradicted one another. If anyone felt any distress from this post then please accept my apologies.
Everyone is lumping on to Johann Hari and let’s not beat around the bush here a lot of it is very much fair as he has been a pretty shoddy journalist and a proven liar and you could even say a pretty shoddy person ethically and morally. However when Cristina Odone piled on in her column in The Telegraph today she opened herself to ridicule as in her attack on Mr Hari she wrote something that directly contradicted her own words nine years previously.
The following quote was taken from this piece in The Telegraph
So yeah she wasn’t fired from her job at the Catholic Herald. In her own words it was a complete lie.
However in an interview with The Independent in 2002 she said…
So in her own words she was fired from that job when writing in 2002 but come 2011 she wasn’t fired and it was a complete lie. *scratches his beard*
It is all fair to lump on to Johann Hari at the moment but when in doing you prove that you are a liar yourself then you really aren’t doing yourself any favours…
Note: I am informed that she has denied this quote in The Independent from 2002. So take this blog for what it’s worth.
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Yes, I agree about Hari but I’d also noted the Odone contradiction in her own words.It comes up immediately in any internet search. Somewhat undermines her principled attack on Hari. Oh dear!! Have you put it directly to her? I’d be interested in her response…..