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abelard

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Nov 12, 2012, 7:48:40 AM11/12/12
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/borisjohnson/9671346/BBC-investigation-Smearing-an-innocent-mans-name-is-the-real-tragedy-here.html
"It’s tragic for us! say Beeb journalists, who are all interviewing
each other in a ludicrous orgy of self-pity. In all this nauseating
navel-gazing and narcissism, there seems to be no one – from Lord
Patten downwards – who appears to be remotely interested in the person
the BBC has injured. Has anyone even begun to apologise, in a fitting
manner, to Alistair McAlpine?"


NewsOnline

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Nov 12, 2012, 9:01:45 AM11/12/12
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> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/borisjohnson/9671346/BBC-investigation-Smearing-an-innocent-mans-name-is-the-real-tragedy-here.html
> "It's tragic for us! say Beeb journalists, who are all interviewing
> each other in a ludicrous orgy of self-pity. In all this nauseating
> navel-gazing and narcissism, there seems to be no one - from Lord
> Patten downwards - who appears to be remotely interested in the person
> the BBC has injured. Has anyone even begun to apologise, in a fitting
> manner, to Alistair McAlpine?"

I see no evidence of self pity, etc from BBC journalists. That exists only
in the
minds of the anti-BBC mob. If the BBC didn't cover this story, those same
people would be screaming 'cover up and conspiracy of silence.' There's
no point in engaging with them. I suspect there is nothing the
BBC could do or say to appease those who are so set against it, so they'll
never be
content with anything the corporation does or says to put this matter
straight. Unless
you have an inside track to the lawyers involved in this particular case -
and I'm guessing you don't - you have no idea what is being discussed wrt
finding a suitable and fitting settlement.

I'm sure the anti-BBC people have a much more productive way of spending
the not quite �3 a week they'd save on the licence fee. I can't think of a
better
way of spending such a small amount. The name of the Lord was on the >net< -
it wasn't mentioned in the unusually sub-standard Newsnight programme.
I hope you save some of your fury for the irresponsible websites who
actually and wrongly mentioned
his name. These idiots are only making the case for regulation of the net
and should be subject
to the same penalties as any publisher or news outlet..

I can't imagine any other news organisation in the world where its chief
would be subject
to the merciless grilling that John Humphrys gave his DG - if you can cite
one with evidence of
it happening - I'd be fascinated.


abelard

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Nov 12, 2012, 9:50:05 AM11/12/12
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On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 14:01:45 -0000, "NewsOnline"
<newsonli...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

>
>> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/borisjohnson/9671346/BBC-investigation-Smearing-an-innocent-mans-name-is-the-real-tragedy-here.html
>> "It's tragic for us! say Beeb journalists, who are all interviewing
>> each other in a ludicrous orgy of self-pity. In all this nauseating
>> navel-gazing and narcissism, there seems to be no one - from Lord
>> Patten downwards - who appears to be remotely interested in the person
>> the BBC has injured. Has anyone even begun to apologise, in a fitting
>> manner, to Alistair McAlpine?"
>
>I see no evidence of self pity, etc from BBC journalists. That exists only
>in the minds of the anti-BBC mob. If the BBC didn't cover this story, those same
>people would be screaming 'cover up and conspiracy of silence.' There's
>no point in engaging with them. I suspect there is nothing the
>BBC could do or say to appease those who are so set against it, so they'll
>never be content with anything the corporation does or says to put this matter
>straight.

i will be fully satisfied if they stop on other people's money...
and they stop pretending to independence when they are no
such thing

> Unless
>you have an inside track to the lawyers involved in this particular case -
>and I'm guessing you don't - you have no idea what is being discussed wrt
>finding a suitable and fitting settlement.
>
>I'm sure the anti-BBC people have a much more productive way of spending
>the not quite �3 a week they'd save on the licence fee. I can't think of a
>better way of spending such a small amount.

now there's an incredible surprise...

> The name of the Lord was on the >net< -
>it wasn't mentioned in the unusually sub-standard Newsnight programme.
>I hope you save some of your fury for the irresponsible websites who
>actually and wrongly mentioned his name. These idiots are only making
> the case for regulation of the net and should be subject to the same
> penalties as any publisher or news outlet..

wrong again...i'm against censorship...
just as i'm against lies...like the false pretences of the socialist
broadcasting corporation

>I can't imagine any other news organisation in the world where its chief
>would be subject to the merciless grilling that John Humphrys gave his DG
>- if you can cite one with evidence of it happening - I'd be fascinated.

i just bet you're also in favour of the police 'investigating' the
police...
and the mps 'investigating' 'expenses'

AC

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Nov 12, 2012, 10:11:11 AM11/12/12
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Stop your daily lying then.


--
AC

abelard

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Nov 12, 2012, 10:20:23 AM11/12/12
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i'm waiting for you to correct my posts...then i will know
more clearly what your latest problem may be

NewsOnline

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Nov 12, 2012, 11:53:44 AM11/12/12
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"abelard" <abel...@abelard.org> wrote in message
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<edit>

>> The name of the Lord was on the >net< -
>>it wasn't mentioned in the unusually sub-standard Newsnight programme.
>>I hope you save some of your fury for the irresponsible websites who
>>actually and wrongly mentioned his name. These idiots are only making
>> the case for regulation of the net and should be subject to the same
>> penalties as any publisher or news outlet..
>
> wrong again...i'm against censorship...
> just as i'm against lies...like the false pretences of the socialist
> broadcasting corporation

Could you be more specific regarding which part of the above was 'wrong
again?'
It can't be the fact that the Peer's name was found on the net and not
mentioned
by the BBC because both are demonstrably true.

So it must be the proposition that people who 'publish' libellous or
defamatory
material on the net should do so freely without fear of any consequences
using free speech
as a fig leaf to protect their sometimes malevolent, sometimes just plain
stupid motives?

>>I can't imagine any other news organisation in the world where its chief
>>would be subject to the merciless grilling that John Humphrys gave his DG
>>- if you can cite one with evidence of it happening - I'd be fascinated.
>
> i just bet you're also in favour of the police 'investigating' the
> police...
> and the mps 'investigating' 'expenses'

You bet wrong, though I note you haven't answered my question, but instead
have gone off in
another direction about totally unrelated subjects. FYI - I'm in favour of
neither of the issues
you cite.

Just remind me if you will - did any of the many journalists at Sky News do
a 'Humphrys' on the
Murdochs in any interview during their recent unpleasantness? I don't have
Sky - but I'm just taking a wild guess:)
Out of interest, why aren't you incandescent with rage with the websites
that dragged the innocent Peer's name
through the gutter in such a defamatory way? You seem to be happy with their
behaviour, but angry with the BBC.


Redman

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Nov 12, 2012, 12:17:57 PM11/12/12
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"NewsOnline" <newsonli...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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You'll find our resident hypocrite will try and move the goalposts, he only
supports the MSM when it agrees with his usual delusional outlook

Redman


DVH

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Nov 12, 2012, 12:20:57 PM11/12/12
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We have to pay for the BBC to lie to us.

Websites lie to us for free.

NewsOnline

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Nov 12, 2012, 12:40:17 PM11/12/12
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"Redman" <redma...@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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<edit>
> You'll find our resident hypocrite will try and move the goalposts, he
> only supports the MSM when it agrees with his usual delusional outlook
>
> Redman

Thanks for the heads up - it's much appreciated. Time for me to walk away I
think.


Cassandra

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Nov 12, 2012, 1:34:05 PM11/12/12
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On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:48:40 +0100, abelard <abel...@abelard.org>
wrote:
Perhaps the BBC are in denial - like you and the US election result ?

Cassandra

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Nov 12, 2012, 1:38:41 PM11/12/12
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On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:48:40 +0100, abelard <abel...@abelard.org>
wrote:

>
>
>
The editor of the Daily Mirror had to apologise to Lord Boothby, so it
seems only fair.

abelard

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Nov 12, 2012, 2:25:54 PM11/12/12
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On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:53:44 -0000, "NewsOnline"
<newsonli...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

>
>"abelard" <abel...@abelard.org> wrote in message
>news:vo22a852nedl75sko...@4ax.com...
>> On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 14:01:45 -0000, "NewsOnline"
>> <newsonli...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/borisjohnson/9671346/BBC-investigation-Smearing-an-innocent-mans-name-is-the-real-tragedy-here.html
><edit>
>
>>> The name of the Lord was on the >net< -
>>>it wasn't mentioned in the unusually sub-standard Newsnight programme.
>>>I hope you save some of your fury for the irresponsible websites who
>>>actually and wrongly mentioned his name. These idiots are only making
>>> the case for regulation of the net and should be subject to the same
>>> penalties as any publisher or news outlet..
>>
>> wrong again...i'm against censorship...
>> just as i'm against lies...like the false pretences of the socialist
>> broadcasting corporation
>
>Could you be more specific regarding which part of the above was 'wrong
>again?'

why would i bother if you can't even read...i clearly
stated that i'm against censorship...
among other comments

>It can't be the fact that the Peer's name was found on the net and not
>mentioned by the BBC because both are demonstrably true.
>
>So it must be the proposition that people who 'publish' libellous or
>defamatory material on the net should do so freely without fear of any consequences
>using free speech as a fig leaf to protect their sometimes malevolent, sometimes just plain
>stupid motives?

again, you speak as if your mind is a mass of confusions...

i'm against censorship...i'm also for individual responsibility

among other matters, you clearly don't understand the new
world you have had thrust upon your media...

it is a world where anybody can say anything....and nobody
can stop you...let alone the managed media to which
you are accustomed complete with your pretended
'authority' and censorship and political 'correctness' etc

when the world changes...sane people adapt...

anyone fool enough to ever have trusted the fossil media
of which your socialist broadcasting corporation is just
one element is naive beyond belief...
it is a very fine day when people learn sufficient accord
with reality that they trust *no-one*...that they trust
nothing that anyone says without considerable checking

>>>I can't imagine any other news organisation in the world where its chief
>>>would be subject to the merciless grilling that John Humphrys gave his DG
>>>- if you can cite one with evidence of it happening - I'd be fascinated.
>>
>> i just bet you're also in favour of the police 'investigating' the
>> police...
>> and the mps 'investigating' 'expenses'
>
>You bet wrong, though I note you haven't answered my question, but instead
>have gone off in another direction about totally unrelated subjects. FYI - I'm in favour of
>neither of the issues
>you cite.

humphries is part of you monolith...i've no more trust of him as an
'authority' than i have of you or the kween....

>Just remind me if you will - did any of the many journalists at Sky News do
>a 'Humphrys' on the Murdochs in any interview during their recent unpleasantness?

as stated, i trust nobody...thus i'm no more or less likely to trust
the socialist broadcasting corporation than i am to trust
murdoch's corporation/s

> I don't have
>Sky -

why do you suppose that also doesn't surprise me?

> but I'm just taking a wild guess:)
>Out of interest, why aren't you incandescent with rage with the websites
>that dragged the innocent Peer's name
>through the gutter in such a defamatory way? You seem to be happy with their
>behaviour, but angry with the BBC.

because i don't get 'incandescent with rage'...i am not a bunch of
uncontrolled emotionalism
your fossil media with it's penchant and dependence on digging
through a thesaurus in order to dredge up even more
emotion laden rhetoric...i regard as primitivism...
attempt to impress and manipulate in place of attempts to think
and to analyse...that does disgust me....

the great majority of the media...including the socialist
broadcasting corporation is an enemy of civilisation and reason

abelard

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Nov 12, 2012, 2:27:00 PM11/12/12
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On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:40:17 -0000, "NewsOnline"
<newsonli...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

>
>"dedfromtheneckupman" <dedfromthen...@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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>
><edit>
>> You'll find our resident hypocrite will try and move the goalposts, he
>> only supports the MSM when it agrees with his usual delusional outlook
>>
>> dedfromtheneckupman
>
>Thanks for the heads up - it's much appreciated. Time for me to walk away I
>think.

it's certainly your safest option

abelard

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Nov 12, 2012, 2:27:59 PM11/12/12
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On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:20:57 +0000, DVH <d...@vhvhvhvh.com> wrote:

>We have to pay for the BBC to lie to us.
>
>Websites lie to us for free.

i do wish i'd written that :-)

JNugent

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Nov 12, 2012, 4:30:51 PM11/12/12
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On 12/11/2012 19:27, abelard wrote:

> DVH <d...@vhvhvhvh.com> wrote:
>
>> We have to pay for the BBC to lie to us.
>> Websites lie to us for free.
>
> i do wish i'd written that :-)

You will, Oscar.

You will.

abelard

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Nov 12, 2012, 4:38:43 PM11/12/12
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On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:30:51 +0000, JNugent <jenni...@fastmail.fm>
wrote:
i'll sure plagiarize if i find a slightest excuse

Andy Walker

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Nov 12, 2012, 5:29:34 PM11/12/12
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On 12/11/12 21:38, abelard wrote:
> i'll sure plagiarize if i find a slightest excuse

Let no-one else's work evagiarise. But be sure to call
it "research".

--
Andy Walker,
Nottingham.

JNugent

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Nov 12, 2012, 6:05:46 PM11/12/12
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On 12/11/2012 22:29, Andy Walker wrote:

> On 12/11/12 21:38, abelard wrote:

>> i'll sure plagiarize if i find a slightest excuse

> Let no-one else's work evagiarise. But be sure to call it "research".

Am I not going to get a "research" credit for "You will, Oscar. You will"?

joeh

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Nov 12, 2012, 6:10:44 PM11/12/12
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You can Whistle for it, James!

JNugent

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Nov 12, 2012, 6:17:22 PM11/12/12
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:-)

Redman

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Nov 13, 2012, 1:16:46 AM11/13/12
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"abelard" <abel...@abelard.org> wrote in message
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I hope you include yourself amongst the naive Baldrick, or are you going to
be hypocritical again?

Redman


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