Tim Blair

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

For the American rapper, see Tim Dog. For the Canadian sketch comedian, see TallBoyz.

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

In 2002, Blair coined "Blair's Law", which he described as "the ongoing process by which the world's multiple idiocies are becoming one giant, useless force..."[4]

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.[5]

References
  1. "Richard Fidler interviews Tim Blair, ABC Radio, 28 July 2006"
  2. "Shooting for top dog in cyber town", Brigid Delaney, The Sydney Morning Herald, 6 October 2004
  3. Tim Blair, "Sweetness & Light", Quadrant, May 2017, pp. 111–12.
  4. Blair, Tim (23 May 2002) "THE PHENOMENON lately identified as Blair's Law..." Tim Blair website
  5. "Corrections". The New York Times. 11 July 2004.
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