Re: OT: Alan Johnsons career on the up!

Sofa - Spud goes:

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??

Stupid ***. Of course I could. That's because I read the news, not
Richard fucking Littlejohn.

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.

So what? What's your point?

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 ,

Course you are. You hate the idea he might be distracting the public's
attention from whatever BB-like reality show you're obsessed about
this week.

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.

There is no double standard. The BBC is reporting on their own man. If
he worked for AFP or Reuter they'd do the same. The amount of coverage
they're giving a very valid story is a fraction of what they'd give to
anything with Paul McCartney in it. But see you like the fluff about
Macca. You think that's what news should be.

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?

Shut up, you stupid fucking fan-boi. Get them to run a contest with
some headcases going in a house for a few weeks to see who the new
correspondent will be. Then you'd be interested.


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AH
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