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"Stephen Fry has criticised the state of print journalism in the UK in a post on his Tumblr account. Responding to a piece in The Telegraph&amp;#039;s Tim Walker questioning whether the actor and QI host writes his own tweets, Fry asked why the author &amp;quot;wrote this nasty screed, knowing full well it insinuated all kinds of things that weren&amp;#039;t true?&amp;quot;  He observed: &amp;quot;The Telegraph&amp;#039;s human cockroach ends by wishing I would give up Twitter for ever. I won&amp;#039;t do so, not for him nor anyone else.  &amp;quot;Aside from any other consideration, having a following vaster by millions than his disgusting rag means I never ever have to submit myself to the horror of a print interview ever again in my life. Ever. Imagine what joy that means!&amp;quot; Accusing Walker and others within the industry of putting him off print press, Fry continued: &amp;quot;One of the chief glories of Twitter, from my point of view, is that it allows me to short-circuit loathsome bottom-feeders of his kind.  &amp;quot;If I do a TV chat show, or a radio interview people are free to think I&amp;#039;m a wanker, because at least it&amp;#039;s me they&amp;#039;re listening to or watching. Not some &amp;#039;profile&amp;#039; version of me filtered through the envious, mean-spirited spite of an arsehole journalist whose only attainment is the ability to sneer.&amp;quot;  &amp;gt; Read Stephen Fry&amp;#039;s Tumblr post in full Fry also said that while he endorses numerous charities and causes via Twitter, he times his tweets so that the organisations can be prepared for any extra server load. Detailing the messages that he sent while Walker saw him with fellow Hobbit cast member Andy Serkis, Fry explained: &amp;quot; I was complying with two charity tweets that my diary alarm pinged me to make. If I&amp;#039;m late, the charities might waste money that they have paid to whoever is hosting their server cluster so that it can take the extra traffic.  &amp;quot;That wouldn&amp;#039;t occur for a second to a (clearly digitally illiterate) gossip-monger. No, no... The fact is this. No one else on earth knows my Twitter password: Every tweet I make is my own aside from (obvious to anyone with the wit to see them) these charitable tweets that I have consented to post.&amp;quot; Fry noted that Walker was entitled to insult him &amp;quot;as aggressively as I&amp;#039;ve insulted you, but you&amp;#039;re not allowed to lie again: just give me a sensible solution as to how to run a Twitter identity and pass on charitable news&amp;quot;. He concluded with an anecdote from a filmed interview he gave abroad, where he was asked if there was anything that made him ashamed of his country. Fry said that when he observed the country&amp;#039;s printed press made him feel ashamed to be English, he was told: &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s the answer everyone gives.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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