Tim Blair

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Tim Blair in 1999

Tim Blair (born 1965) is an Australian editor, journalist, [1] political commentator and blogger. He works for The Daily Telegraph in Sydney.

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In mid-2001, Blair began blogging on Blogspot. By 2004, he had attracted a significant following, The Sydney Morning Herald describing him as a "top dog among the new Australian digerati" who "some days draws more than 20,000 readers to his website." [2] In addition to running his blog, Blair was previously a news editor and regular columnist for now-defunct magazine The Bulletin . He also worked as a journalist and senior editor at Time , Truth and Sports Illustrated , and has also written for Fox News. He has contributed a monthly column titled "Sweetness & Light" to Quadrant since May 2017. [3] Blair has also appeared on 4BC, Radio National and the ABC programme Insiders .

Politics

Following American president George W. Bush's visit to Baghdad during Thanksgiving in 2003, Blair documented and disproved claims that a roast turkey that Bush was photographed holding up was plastic. The roast turkey was real. [4]

References

  1. ↑ "Tim Blair and Simone Young". ABC Radio. 28 July 2006. Archived from the original on 13 October 2007.
  2. ↑ Delaney, Brigid (6 October 2004). "Shooting for top dog in cyber town". The Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 18 November 2024.
  3. ↑ Tim Blair, "Sweetness & Light", Quadrant, May 2017, pp. 111–12.
  4. ↑ "Corrections". The New York Times . 11 July 2004. p. 2.
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