³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ in the news, Friday
| 09:36 UK time, Friday, 13 July 2007
All papers: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ apologises to the Queen over promotional clips apparently showing her angry with photographer Annie Liebovitz. ()
Times: Andrew Marr told to stop writing a column for the Daily Telegraph. ()
Express: Frederick Forsyth claims ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ News is "dominated by a claque of hard-Left, anti-British republicans". ()
Comments
Typical of the world we live in. No one is held responsible for any errors or mistakes. politicians, those individuals of the media etc, never 'fall on the sword.' Do you wonder why we no longer trust the Politicians and media. No integrity. Responsibilty appears to be just a word in the dictionary, It's meaning,????!
Re. the "Queen" story yesterday.
Throughout all the coverage on News 24, bulletins, Newsnight etc., with repeated showings of the alleded "strop", I'm surprised that no one commented on the fact that Her Majesty was INDEED having a strop. It's obvious that she was already fed up BEFORE the photo session, and note especially her flat-hands-down dismissal of any more messing about as she strides to her appointment with the photographer.
It's still a great coup, even if the edit was incorrect.It's not the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ who should apologise, it's the crew at RDF who should grovel - though I guess Marchant is correct when he says they should have checked the accuracy of the edit and the actuality of the story line.
So the real stroy is - Yes, her Madge is having a strop, but not necessarily in the order we described it. Shades of "all the right notes, sunshine, but not necessarily in the right order" (Morcambe & Wise & Andre Previn - still the funniest piece of television - EVER !)
Everyone who is not hard-right is hard- left of the EXPRESS so, in a way, Frederick Forsyth has a point.
When a story makes the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ news, this is where any response should be broadcast.
So when the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ is found out deceiving and cheating the audience, the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ news is where the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ apology should appear, if merited.
So where was the Director General apologising on screen to the Queen and licence-payer for mistakes? why was the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ 'apology' anonymous and unattributed? Isn't the Queen important enough?
Former US President Truman displayed a notice on his desk: 'The buck stops here'. The ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Director General should be as courageous and not hide away from the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ audience and public.