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Tim Blair

Tim Blair

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

Tim Blair in 1999

In mid-2001, Blair began blogging at 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 the now-defunct The Bulletin. He has 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

Starting a few days after George W. Bush's visit to Baghdad during Thanksgiving 2003, Blair has documented and disproved claims that a roast turkey that Bush was photographed holding up was plastic. The roast turkey was real.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    "Richard Fidler interviews Tim Blair, ABC Radio, 28 July 2006"
  2. [2]
    "Shooting for top dog in cyber town", Brigid Delaney, The Sydney Morning Herald, 6 October 2004
  3. [3]
    Tim Blair, "Sweetness & Light", Quadrant, May 2017, pp. 111–12.
  4. [4]
    "Corrections". The New York Times. 11 July 2004.
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