I saw her get huffy at somebody in the blogosphere who had the temerity to state her writings were superficial and incoherent. She came back, “you have not read any of my academic work!”

Yes and as we all know ‘academic work’ is always a paragon of crystal depth.

Dickens was a very popular novelist who was serialised in newspapers - so obviously some popular works have the depth to survive the test of time. Who can tell which will and which will not survive?

Likewise Balzac and (I think) Zola. Balzac wasn’t taken seriously by haute urbanity in his lifetime. Very prolific; wrote something like 4 books a year.

Tom Wolfe has the same trouble getting taken seriously by the beret-poloneck types except of course that they’re usually fuming at his ascerbic dissection of their pretensions.

Lumby’s latest book is called The Pron Report, which is based on “research.” Miranda Devine joins Clive Hamilton (what a bizzare alliance) in sticking to Lumby in todays SMH. I can’t wait for Lumby’s response!

http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/moral-backlash-over-sexing-up-of-our-children/2008/05/21/1211182891875.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap2

Have you ever read any of her non-media “work?” I saw her get huffy at somebody in the blogosphere who had the temerity to state her writings were superficial and incoherent. She came back, “you have not read any of my academic work!”

Well, I have and all I can say is that whoever gave her a Ph.D - I think it was Macquarie Uni’s Culture Studies department for a dissertaion on the media and Monica Lewinsky - should have all government funding withheld immediately.

Oh dear. She is a twit.