Smeargate Part the 2nd: In Which Guido's Marbles Are Lost?

VERY DISAPPOINTING. We'll have to wait and see about this story (Guido's reprint of what he calls the NOTW "Press Release) develops. Linking to what Guido calls "the full story". In fact this consists of the exact same words as Guido's spoiler.

This is just the 8th Day of the "Guidoisation" of the mainstream media and particularly the lobby. Guido is showing them how to regain the moral high ground! How to stay honest! How to do their jobs in an honourable way! But if they're publishing stuff this thin so soon Guido's moral crusade is not going to last until May.

Where is the slightest evidence linking Ray Collins and Kevin Maguire, who attended a November start of December 2008 meeting with the Red Rag conspirators (didn't we know about that already? from Collins?) with the sleazy, smeary, almost Guido-like content McBride proposed for but was never published by that infamous site on 13 January 2009?

Here's my comment submitted to the NOTW at around 00:18 am. Wonder if they'll print it?

The whole thing looks a bit like a "difficult second album" pushed out through a contractual liability, without much enthusiasm. As if someone has laid out a big cheque and wants to get their pound of flesh.

The site was registered before this meeting? But this meeting set the site up? You say "The Red Rag" meeting? Why not "Labour blogging meeting"? Or "Labour List" meeting?
Labour List is a site that WAS set up and DID launch and IS publishing. Grudging acceptance now of improvement and value. But no sleaze, no smear, no gossip even. In fact it's tedious!
But bankrolled by Whelan and Dodgshon's Unite. And doing the things this meeting was about.
If "Red Rag" were a fringe to "Labour List" formality - there's surely no problem with that is there? ... so long as disgraceful smears apparently exchanged on 13 January had any part?
Gossipy websites are OK. Only if content gets wild, untrue, disgusting is there a problem. Remember - Red Rag never published a word.
Mainstream media, the blogger Guido Fawkes, and those Tories named, have published the material.
This story owes more to Guido's smeary style than to any NCTJ training. No evidence that either Ray Collins or Kevin Maguire discussed or encouraged smear material, proposed two months later. At the moment this story is a smear on those two and Labour. Not a real story.
Guidoisation of the press, making you "honest", will not be sustainable if you publish something as thin as this as early as the 8th day of the "clean up".

UPDATE 01:17: Iain Dale thinks this story is "stonking". Oh dear. Real crisis of analysis. This story is thin as hell. In fact it is a smear.