Re: OT: Alan Johnsons career on the up!

On 11 May, 00:32, Alan Hope <not.alan.h...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Sofa - Spud goes:

On 10 May, 22:14, Martin <m...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 10 May 2007 14:04:00 -0700, Sofa - Spud <comfyso...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Seemingly getting kidnapped hasn't hurt his career one bit
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6643553.stm
He was named broadcast journalist of the year by the London Press Club
for his work reporting from the Gaza Strip.
Funny how the BBC and other media outlets have really got behind one
of their own - regular mentions on the news , and on the BBC website.
Don't remember this for any of the other people kidnapped in the
Middle East - oh but they weren't journalists so obviously aren't so
important.
Terry Waite?
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That was years ago when this was unusual.

No, you total fucking ignoramus, that was years ago when hostages in
the Middle East were ten a penny. It wasn't unusual in the slightest.

Oh ? Could you name a high profile hostage before Waite?? He went
supposedly as a man of peace , a neutral and they still treated him
like that . Reinforcing in any sane that the nutters in Beirut were
just that - nutters not to be bargined with but to be left to get on
with it.

it just seems that as its
"one of their own" they'll pull out all the stops and it isn't "just
another story" .

Well, that's good, isn't it? Or are you suggesting the people on whose
behalf he was there should just say nothing, because despite being a
news organisation, they sometimes should just shut up about things
that are news, in case some factory arsehole is offended on Usenet?

I'm not offended , what I am slightly vexed by is the double standard,
but as a Journo you won't /can't see it. No change there then.


Thought it needed airing out - seeing from some
responses it certainly did need it.

People respond because you're a stupid ***, not because you make
worthwhile points.

It showed you up as a blinkered hypocrite - seeing as you feel so
strongly I suppose you've written to the BBC with your Journalists
credentials offering to carry on his work?

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