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 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 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. "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.

External links

• Tim Blair Blog – The Daily Telegraph (May 2008)
• Tim Blair's weblog – archive only since move to Daily Telegraph site
• Right Wing News – The Tim Blair Interview (April 2002)