Comments on: David Richards Exposed as Plagiarist, Claims "Hackers" Did It

By: The Fake David Richards

The Fake David Richards — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:27:38 +0000

Yes Jason, that was me who posted the MediaWatch clip onto YouTube and also submitted it to Digg. But I am The Fake David Richards, not the real one.

Following his prime-time expose on national TV, which thanks to the Internet has been seen and enjoyed by everyone who has ever dealt with this slimy scumbag, the real David Richards has been keeping a very low profile of late.

Except that the day after the TV show aired he was on the telephone to everyone in the business spinning his lame 'I was hacked' story. No-one believes that sorry tale except (maybe) Richards himself.

By: StefW

StefW — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:39:50 +0000

Yep Jason, it will just keep getting weirder as long as he has to think up a new lie… oops i mean excuse to cover the last lie… oops – there i go again – must be a hacker in my machine trying to change what I type.
Yes it is his mug in the picture above, although he needs to get some surgery if he thinks he could pass for 47…
Check out the first entry in the mediawatch message board at http://www2b.abc.net.au/tmb/Client/Message.aspx?b=33&m=2727&ps=20&dm=1&pd=3 I think that is reakky (sic) from Richards as well… like you say – weird

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 02:00:12 +0000

The depths of David's sociopathy know no bounds. I would not be in the least surprised if he submitted these stories to get hits on his site. To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, any traffic is good traffic for David.

And might I add that you should pity his staff, they have no control over David's behaviour, which has gotten increasingly worse over the years.

I hope there is a resolution to this issue for once and all as he is a major embarrassment to the IT journalism industry in Australia.