In what started with a mulley.net post against a blogger code of conduct, the Guardian’s Organ Grinder blog has misrepresented what a prominent Irish blogger has said.

While writing about ‘content labels’ for blogs, Organ Grinder stated, “A few bloggers have already rather predictably rejected the idea already before it has even begun. Sunday Tribune columnist Damien Mulley said, "fuck off" to content labels for blogs”.

Damien Mulley, however, did not say “fuck off” to content labels, he clearly said “Blogger code of conduct? Two words - Fuck off”, and that was just the headline.

In a reply in the Guardian’s comment system, Mulley says, “I
could care less about content labels and I never blogged about content
labels”. While on his blog, he says, “I would have expected something better from BBC Print Lite”.

The confusion seams to have come from the blog of Paul Walsh, where in a reply post to Mulley,
Walsh was talking about both a blogger code of conduct and content
labeling, although he was not necessarily saying Mulley was.

Lastly, back to content labelling, the Guardian writes that
labels “could be applied to blogs that agree to abide by certain
standards of accuracy of fact checking, for example”. Indeed.