Re: London bombings cause panic and terror....


"Don Pearce" <donald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote


> I looked him n the eye and said "have you ever considered taking up
> mini-cabbing?". He grunted and said "what has that got to do with
> it?". Only a couple of the other journos laughed, but the Lord
> Lieutenant of Hertfordshire came up to me with a huge grin and said
> "thank you for that - the best laugh I've had today".


What is more worrying is not that the modern style of 'journalism' (trading
on conjecture and speculation) exists, but that they obviously think they
might actually be responding to modern-day needs....??

I for one am entirely sick of pokey journalists trying to provoke
controversy out of everything and *creating news* these days! When the
newsreaders go into the 'asking the reporters what do they *think*?' routine
I wonder if I'm the only one put off by it?

This is part of a direct email I have received from a 'lurker' here and my
response to it:

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> I was in London yesterday, just over 1.5 miles up the A11 from Algate tube
> station

<snip>


> The atmosphere there was completely different to what I saw on TV. Ok
> there was
> less traffic about but from what I saw people were still shopping,
> students were
> still attending graduation ceremonies and people were still working. If
> people
> hadn't have kept phoning us to see if we were alright (even after
> lunchtime) we
> wouldn't have noticed!
> Obviously the bombs were the main topic of conversation and there were
> lots of
> radios on but no one seemed that bothered. When we left at 4:30 there were
> lots
> of people calmly walking home from work or waiting for one of the buses
> that
> were still running. In fact the bus stops were packed with people so they
> weren't too worried.
>
> I suppose if you weren't directly involved in the event or the aftermath
> it
> wasn't that big a deal. Funny old world sometimes.


XXXX, I'm going to quote you on the group - anonymously and suitably edited
of course!!

All this news hype is disgusting - it's 'unEnglish' and exactly what the
terrorists want!!

Keith.
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Says everything I'm trying to convey - the TV newshounds are making us all
look like tits!!

So are the piss-useless, dozy 'senior police spokesmen' trying to justify
their huge salaries with their pathetic public announcements when they
obviously know ***-all and couldn't stop a terrorist with a bomb in each
hand (and his *** hanging out) from wandering through Buckingham
Palace....!!




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