It must have been the IRA's fault

Apologies to our readers for the prolonged absence, due to our travels visiting the glorious utopia created by the magisterial President Ben-Ali in Tunisia, followed by a severe case of vomiting induced by the spectacle of the England rugby team victory parade (and associated hype) in London. Or maybe the sickness happened in Tunisia -- it all seemed to roll into one. But anyway, we were in a bit of a news cocoon -- the newspaper we read in Tunis one day only had time for one prominent news story besides recounting the latest achievements of the President, namely the victory of Miss Ireland in the Miss World contest. This tops our Eurovision wins many times over.

We will just quickly note how the poor old New York Times got bitten by doing something that they never would have done were they reading our blog -- they believed a story in the Daily Telegraph! As they now should realise, this paper has been simply too weakened by its subjugation to multiple agendas -- bashing Ireland, promoting the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy, and advancing the social ambitions of Lord and Lady Black -- to maintain reliable factual standards in any of its reporting. In this case, the NYT used a Telegraph obit as a basis for its own obit for their same person, and therefore bought into the Telegraph's assumption that the subject was in fact, like, dead. But No. As the New York Post reports (showing again that the weakened Telegraph is now considered fair game for the other VRC mouthpieces):

Times officials refused to discuss why it published the obituary, written by freelance dance writer Jack Anderson. But Anderson told The Post last night he first read Sergava's obit in the Daily Telegraph of London, which referred him to alleged Sergava publicist Shirley Hanner.
Hanner has become unreachable, said Anderson, whose article cited no sources.
The Telegraph's obituary was still posted on its Web site last night.

Something to keep in mind the next time you see the telltale opening clause "as reported in London's Daily Telegraph."