tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post3059601551637782877..comments2024-03-29T11:07:51.893+13:00Comments on Bowalley Road: News From The Dark SideChris Trotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09081613281183460899noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-56924840277876286852011-07-14T23:32:06.176+12:002011-07-14T23:32:06.176+12:00"True investigative journalism is not concern..."True investigative journalism is not concerned with which celebrity is sleeping with which celebrity’s wife" True, but that's what shifts papers. Especially if said celebrity wife is a lingerie model that can be slapped on the front page whilst wearing .....well, er, not alot.Andy Cnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-71364350722492837982011-07-14T21:12:12.601+12:002011-07-14T21:12:12.601+12:00All truly progressive political and social forces ...All truly progressive political and social forces require privacy to gell and develop. That is an insight that came very strongly to one Thomas Jefferson during his years as ambassador to pre revolutionary France. After his return to the United States, Jefferson insisted on a two bell system, so the servants and waiters only entered the hall of the politicos to deliver the meals, and exited immediately when they had delivered the plate. It was essential the republicans be able to plot in private.<br /> Murdoch is interested only in money and power for his talentless family. Very much the lowest common demominator. Murdoch's ultiamte hate and beit noir is the New York times. A democrat of a very strange sort is this South Australian.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-27875989246574560982011-07-14T17:39:08.233+12:002011-07-14T17:39:08.233+12:00A further recommendation is the brief article and ...A further recommendation is the brief article and sound clip from Billy Bragg on the Guardian website's 'Comment is Free' section.Victornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-42289810204319285002011-07-13T16:11:21.809+12:002011-07-13T16:11:21.809+12:00Repentance duly noted. No further action required....Repentance duly noted. No further action required.<br /><br />By the way, the Howard Hawks classic, 'His Girl Friday' is currently viewable in one fell swoop on YouTube.<br /><br />Viewing it suggests that little, apart from the technology of snooping, has changed, when it comes to the worst of journalism.Victornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-68330411241889152232011-07-13T15:10:26.551+12:002011-07-13T15:10:26.551+12:00I stand, justly rebuked, Victor.
Mea culpa, mea c...I stand, justly rebuked, Victor.<br /><br />Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.Chris Trotterhttp://bowalleyroad.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-91215298080272758802011-07-13T12:50:45.587+12:002011-07-13T12:50:45.587+12:00Wherever there is a dollar to be made, some will t...Wherever there is a dollar to be made, some will try to make that dollar by hook, and some by crook. Some of the crooks have real jobs. And some get caught and lose those jobs, as in this case. We know this - it is not surprising. I doubt the outrage of the supposed moral crusaders mentioned above comes from any sympathy for the victims of privacy invasion. Mr. Dyke unwittingly lays it bare: 'I'm not one of him.' This has nothing to do with ethics, only the pride and reputation of some already smelling tar from the same brush applied so thoroughly to their reviled guest. And well they might fear it - one a journalist, another a comedian, they are from the same gaggle as the roasting goose of Mr. McMullan, making money by publicising others' unfortunate circumstances whether 'ethically' or not. 'There but for the grace of God go I' might have been a more poignant response from such. But it all serves as a timely reminder of the ancient words of another commentator: 'there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known'.Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16219657564984291522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-1171476912657721152011-07-13T12:33:13.037+12:002011-07-13T12:33:13.037+12:00A well-written piece, marred however, Chris, by th...A well-written piece, marred however, Chris, by the atrocious, antediluvian snobbery of your reference to the "weak, reedy accents of East London...pre-smeared with the mud of the Thames".<br /><br />Would Mcmullan be any more reputable if he spoke in the dulcet tones of an Old Etonian or, alternatively, of a New Zealand media pundit? <br /><br />Who are you trying to compete with; the late Nancy Mitford, Auberon Waugh or just Hyacinth Bucket? <br /><br />May I remind you that weak, reedy East London accents would have been on the lips of the many thousands of men and women who stood in the path of Mosley's Blackshirts and who, a few years later, withstood all that the Luftwaffe could throw at them.<br /><br />No doubt tones similarly redolent of the sludgy old Thames would have wafted effetely through the ranks of the apprentice lads, who stood, pike at the ready,to repulse Charles I's attempt to re-take his erstwhile capital, thus ensuring your freedom to comment as you will these many centuries later. <br /><br />And, of course, weak reedy East London voices would have been far from uncommon amongst those who built New Zealand's infrastucture, its Labour movement and its once admirable welfare state.<br /><br />Perhaps you might care to ponder these thoughts.Victornoreply@blogger.com