Contest Backlash

In a reaction to the Sydney Morning Herald's taxi story contest, a cabbie has served it up to organisers Joel Gibson and Tim Dick,

"Here we have the time-honoured cadet journo ritual of Christmas cabbie bashing. It usually comes about because the pissed and pimple-faced wanker (or wankeress), boss-provided Cabcharge docket in hand, has trouble catching their once-a-year cab after a Christmas party," he wrote. "They just can't figure out why the cabs stop for the polite-looking couples down the road who hailed them after they did, just because the journos were waiving their hands about, yelling, 'Don't you know who I am?' Any chance of a Sydney's worst journo column?".

The author, Ross Nelson first posted this on cabbie forum Ozcabs. Nelson, a master of diplomacy who once served as media man for the NSW Drivers Association, kindly sent the Herald another cabbies reaction to the competition,

"Almost every journalist I have ever had in my taxi has been a pissed and arrogant [insert most offensive word in the English language], consumed with the power they wield over 'lesser beings' and inflated with their own sense of worth to the community," he said. "The reality is that you are all 'owned' by just a few criminally rich manipulators of the public's perception, and simply flutter between the financially better political offerings of just two morally bankrupt political parties. From trade to profession to religion, from fact to favour to fiction, your 'industry' is an absolute sham and you should all be forced to walk around with the word 'FRAUD' tattooed to your foreheads. Merry Christmas, a---holes."

I also take the opportunity of wishing various Sydney Morning Herald journalists a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. And mind the step on your way out. 

Comments

[Huggies]

I wonder how many requests for cabs at the office of the SMH will be ignored.