ITN News
"Mind you, what on earth are ITN up to?
1. Increasing viewers and hence advertising revenue.
2. Trying to create a story where none exists.
3. Appealing to the baser instincts of every neanderthal out there.
4. Going for some very easy Yank bashing votes.
5. Exploiting the memory of those who died or were injured.
6. Demonstrating what the true spirit of gutter journalism is about.
7. Showing why introducing an AIDS ridden crack-whore as your new partner is less embarrassing than saying you know a Journalist.
But the good news is at least most of you got it."
Of course! It’s all the fault of the journalists and the broadcaster.
This is reprehensible journalism, and we should all boycott ITN, presumably because they’re supposed to be serving up a story that we all find unpalateable.
Because of course:
1) It’s nothing to do with telling an important story, because the British general public don’t give a stuff about their servicemen and women, and so don’t care when or how they die.
2) There is no story, because a British soldier did not die, entirely unnecessarily, and his death was not caused by the reckless incompetence of a pair of A-10 pilots. (Members of a community that killed more Brits in the first Gulf War than the Iraqis managed to).
3) It’s base and stupid to care about casualties, and to criticise our allies when they **** up in spades. And it’s especially base to be shocked when those responsible for killing one of our finest do not have to answer for their actions, and are, indeed, found to have been promoted.
4) It’s all about anti-Americanism, because the slack-jawed, knuckle dragging tw@t interviewed by ITN, who expressed the view that "You guys had better get on board in that whole damn country of yours and along with the rest of Europe" and "You gonna go merrily sucking your thumb like you did in WWII" and "We dont need your danm help, we need your co-operation. We know its hard to get that. We know you guys can't shoot, move and communicate" was entirely unrepresentative, and the British public have no right to know that that is how large numbers of Americans see us.
5) We should use the fact that a soldier died to cover up this appalling piece of incompetence, and to pretend that everything in the Anglo-American garden is rosy.
6) Telling the truth (however uncomfortable), about a story that matters, and that people care about, is ‘gutter journalism’.
7) Because journalists are of course lower than the scum who insult their allies, and who demean and belittle the hundreds of thousands of Europeans who have died in the name of freedom, many of them in the early parts of two World Wars where European nations stood up against tyranny and totalitarianism (against their narrow self interests) while America continued with business as usual, making a profit out of our struggle for survival.
Two’s In, you are a complete and utter waste of oxygen, like the inbred half wit who ITN interviewed. Are you perhaps related, or do you merely share the same views as that numbskulled knob?
1. Increasing viewers and hence advertising revenue.
2. Trying to create a story where none exists.
3. Appealing to the baser instincts of every neanderthal out there.
4. Going for some very easy Yank bashing votes.
5. Exploiting the memory of those who died or were injured.
6. Demonstrating what the true spirit of gutter journalism is about.
7. Showing why introducing an AIDS ridden crack-whore as your new partner is less embarrassing than saying you know a Journalist.
But the good news is at least most of you got it."
Of course! It’s all the fault of the journalists and the broadcaster.
This is reprehensible journalism, and we should all boycott ITN, presumably because they’re supposed to be serving up a story that we all find unpalateable.
Because of course:
1) It’s nothing to do with telling an important story, because the British general public don’t give a stuff about their servicemen and women, and so don’t care when or how they die.
2) There is no story, because a British soldier did not die, entirely unnecessarily, and his death was not caused by the reckless incompetence of a pair of A-10 pilots. (Members of a community that killed more Brits in the first Gulf War than the Iraqis managed to).
3) It’s base and stupid to care about casualties, and to criticise our allies when they **** up in spades. And it’s especially base to be shocked when those responsible for killing one of our finest do not have to answer for their actions, and are, indeed, found to have been promoted.
4) It’s all about anti-Americanism, because the slack-jawed, knuckle dragging tw@t interviewed by ITN, who expressed the view that "You guys had better get on board in that whole damn country of yours and along with the rest of Europe" and "You gonna go merrily sucking your thumb like you did in WWII" and "We dont need your danm help, we need your co-operation. We know its hard to get that. We know you guys can't shoot, move and communicate" was entirely unrepresentative, and the British public have no right to know that that is how large numbers of Americans see us.
5) We should use the fact that a soldier died to cover up this appalling piece of incompetence, and to pretend that everything in the Anglo-American garden is rosy.
6) Telling the truth (however uncomfortable), about a story that matters, and that people care about, is ‘gutter journalism’.
7) Because journalists are of course lower than the scum who insult their allies, and who demean and belittle the hundreds of thousands of Europeans who have died in the name of freedom, many of them in the early parts of two World Wars where European nations stood up against tyranny and totalitarianism (against their narrow self interests) while America continued with business as usual, making a profit out of our struggle for survival.
Two’s In, you are a complete and utter waste of oxygen, like the inbred half wit who ITN interviewed. Are you perhaps related, or do you merely share the same views as that numbskulled knob?
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Sorry Jackonicko,
Try as you might you simply won't change my mind. In my view it was crass journalism whereby ITN tried as they might to justify a very unfruitful trip to Idaho by showing what was probably the only negative interview they had.
Hide as much as you like behind your fellow journo's logic for such tripe but its just not cricket in my book.
Try as you might you simply won't change my mind. In my view it was crass journalism whereby ITN tried as they might to justify a very unfruitful trip to Idaho by showing what was probably the only negative interview they had.
Hide as much as you like behind your fellow journo's logic for such tripe but its just not cricket in my book.
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Google 'Kennesaw gun law'.
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I'm familiar with the Kennesaw ordinance. It is silly, but you covered its motivation.
But, that's one tiny Georgia town, not a state. And the Kennesaw ordinance does not require anyone to CARRY a sidearm.
This is not a gun debate thread; it is about the sliminess of some reporters 'outing' a serving member of the military. If an American reporter has done that to a British citizen, it is just as reprehensible.
I did not see the interview, however, as I've said I can well imagine the type that spoke. For some here to think that is a representative of every American is silly. Same as it is for us to think that every British is a member of the Ascot set....or a chav.
I'm familiar with the Kennesaw ordinance. It is silly, but you covered its motivation.
But, that's one tiny Georgia town, not a state. And the Kennesaw ordinance does not require anyone to CARRY a sidearm.
This is not a gun debate thread; it is about the sliminess of some reporters 'outing' a serving member of the military. If an American reporter has done that to a British citizen, it is just as reprehensible.
I did not see the interview, however, as I've said I can well imagine the type that spoke. For some here to think that is a representative of every American is silly. Same as it is for us to think that every British is a member of the Ascot set....or a chav.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKDzTHvKRgw
always planned to remain a lurker, but could not resist letting our cousins know what the guy said
always planned to remain a lurker, but could not resist letting our cousins know what the guy said
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Don't miss it
Apparently on the ITV News tonight at 10:30pm they are going to put all the complaints received about what that guy said to him for HIS comments.
Should be a laugh.
Should be a laugh.
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I gather that Mr Anderson has apologised after receiving 'numerous angry phonecalls' telling him that he'd caused offence.
It appears that it is quite easy to find someone's telephone number via Google these days (particularly if they have a distinctive name and their geographic location has been broadcast on the news) and that a large number of people availed themselves of this facility to pass on their regards when they became aware of it...
It appears that it is quite easy to find someone's telephone number via Google these days (particularly if they have a distinctive name and their geographic location has been broadcast on the news) and that a large number of people availed themselves of this facility to pass on their regards when they became aware of it...
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Well he is apologizing tonight for (Just seen on whats on the news tonight)
'Insulting all English servicemen'
So basically he has still offended Welsh, Scots, and from N.I
Some more angry calls to ITN then
His face mind when he says it, thay have too show it because its such a laugh!
Just another of the many American retards!
'Insulting all English servicemen'
So basically he has still offended Welsh, Scots, and from N.I
Some more angry calls to ITN then
His face mind when he says it, thay have too show it because its such a laugh!Just another of the many American retards!
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Cute, but I can assure you I wasn't referring to the President. As I was raised in the American South, I probably have more of the accent than I am aware.
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That is no way to speak about your President.
Cute, but I can assure you I wasn't referring to the President. As I was raised in the American South, I probably have more of the accent than I am aware.
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Didn't watch ITN last night but heard the apology was gonna be shown tonight. Having read this thread I was expecting to see some trailerpark trash redneck. Was quite surprised to see it was a guy in an affluent neighborhood who was reportedly a helo pilot in Nam rather than just a grunt.
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yanks plan their next invasion (with help from the public)
Quote "i bet he don't know where iraqistan is"
follow the link for an interesting insight to the minds of the American people in regards to world peace and it's control - you just gotta love these guys, they even have the right to vote!!!!
http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2005/usa-invade-p1.php
follow the link for an interesting insight to the minds of the American people in regards to world peace and it's control - you just gotta love these guys, they even have the right to vote!!!!
http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2005/usa-invade-p1.php
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C'mon guys, less of the Yank bashing - you just need to watch TV in the crewroom during the week to see we in the UK have more than our fair share of morons (check out Jeremy Kyles show - just another in the long line of car crash tv in the style of Trisha et al).
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Despite your journalistic protestations, it seems fairly obvious that ITN were very cynical in their choice of interviewee.
They interview him with his gobsh1te, ignorant views, air it on TV, then go back the next day and berate him by letting him know what the UK public have said in response.....
We all know that every country has its share of assholes - for ITN to line someone up like that just to have him shot down, then pretend to take the moral high ground by confronting him with the indignation of the UK public is lazy, moronic journalism.
JackoNicko
Despite your journalistic protestations, it seems fairly obvious that ITN were very cynical in their choice of interviewee.
They interview him with his gobsh1te, ignorant views, air it on TV, then go back the next day and berate him by letting him know what the UK public have said in response.....
We all know that every country has its share of assholes - for ITN to line someone up like that just to have him shot down, then pretend to take the moral high ground by confronting him with the indignation of the UK public is lazy, moronic journalism.
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Thanks Notaflier
Saw the link, wondered what all the fuss was about, and now i know. The guy is an utter retard. I was further amazed that ITN, name the Col, show his photo and then say 'This is the man BELIEVED to be the pilot who shot the British convoy etc etc'. My point being they only believe, they are not 100% sure, yet they name and shame. I would love to see the unedited version of that news clip.
How was the apology, i didnt see it.
Saw the link, wondered what all the fuss was about, and now i know. The guy is an utter retard. I was further amazed that ITN, name the Col, show his photo and then say 'This is the man BELIEVED to be the pilot who shot the British convoy etc etc'. My point being they only believe, they are not 100% sure, yet they name and shame. I would love to see the unedited version of that news clip.
How was the apology, i didnt see it.
Wader2,
I have to agree with you there. There have been incidents such as you tell.
However, having spoken to people who have been in the NAAFI at El Adem I can understand why it was bombed by a Vulcan and believe it wasn't an accident but a "DH"
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I have to agree with you there. There have been incidents such as you tell.
However, having spoken to people who have been in the NAAFI at El Adem I can understand why it was bombed by a Vulcan and believe it wasn't an accident but a "DH"
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Evening all found a link of the interview on another site.:
http://www.youtube.com/p.swf?video_i...0mv7OiINRtwNs6
http://www.youtube.com/p.swf?video_i...0mv7OiINRtwNs6
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Eldon Anderson Apologises
If it hasn't already been published. He apologised to 'England'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3rEykLZLGo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3rEykLZLGo
