Thursday, March 27, 2008
Andersonstown News Rebellion Shortlived
The Andersonstown News accepts that the tone and the timing of the Squinter article last week during a period of community mourning was inappropriate and unnecessary and apologises to Gerry Adams and our readers for any hurt caused.
“Hold me now.
It’s hard for me to say I’m sorry.
I just want you to know.
Hold me now.
I really want to tell you I’m sorry.
I could never let you go.After all that we’ve been through,
I will make it up to you. I promise to.
And after all that’s been said and done,
You’re just the part of me I can’t let go.”
Rusty Nail @ 10:55 AM
“Hogan,
no, apart from you and unionist crank SRR, no-one else finds it strange. Here, listen and learn, the BBC NI news website didn’t cover Squinter’s piece in the first place, so has no real call to publish a follow-up. Also, why would they even be interested in this piece as newsworthy item when it didn’t even make the Belly Tele.”
Grassy Noel on Mar 27, 2008 @ 02:00 PM
That’s plane crazy talk. This story was a major item on both Talkback and the Nolan Show. Despite what you clearly would like to think, the online element of the BBC in NI is not the cutting edge news sept. If it was good enough to be a main segment on two of the flagship news / current affairs programmes, it should have been good enough for the bloody website.
By the way, there is currently a story on there about the dangers facing children’s baby teeth.
Posted by on Mar 27, 2008 @ 04:58 PMAhh foot drill as Gaeilge......need more time square bashing methinks.
Posted by on Mar 27, 2008 @ 05:24 PMso i suppose we can say that squinter blinked.
Posted by on Mar 27, 2008 @ 05:51 PMA quick lesson in how Talk Back and Nolan mesh with BBC news online and other BBC outlets.
Both Nolan and Talk Back pursue their own editorial agendas - agendas which are aimed at attracting callers. The vast bulk of the stories which Nolan and Talk Back don’t appear on any other BBC outlet, online or otherwise. It may be that in this case other outlets had decided that a story about a local paper in Belfast, while of enormous interest to sluggerettes wouldn’t necessarily play to a wider audience.
Furthermore there aren’t that many people on the BBC online team - it’s about two or three hacks a shift so they wouldn’t have the time to sit and transcribe everything on Radio Ulster.
Posted by on Mar 27, 2008 @ 06:00 PMsurely jake can offer a few more words o wisdom?What did you think of squinters article jake?Grow a pair!
Posted by on Mar 27, 2008 @ 09:31 PMWhat a shame. Even Mairtin must be embarassed by this episode. If the rumour mill has any truth - and in west Belfast the rumours are very strong -that the paper was threatened with withdrawal of advertisements, then the ATN has been hit with tactics it has endorsed in the past.
Sorry episode indeed.
Posted by on Mar 27, 2008 @ 09:46 PMIt’s a complete climbdown from the ATN and editorial team and now questions the integrity, independence and reputation of the paper. It’s obvious now who’s the organ grinder and who’s the monkey. As a Nationalist I feel VERY VERY let down by this humiliating grovelling apology and the word PRAVDA comes into mind. It has FURTHER confirmed that this Sinn Fein leadership are PARANOID control freaks straight out of a George Orwell novel growing increasingly alienated from ordinary people. There is absolutely NO debate or discussion within that Movement and it’s run by an elite cartel for an elite cartel. If ANYTHING Adams and Sinn Fein should have taken this on the chin AND apologised to their constituents for having surrendered these areas to the hoods & thugs. Instead they whinged and yapped and no doubt pressure was put on the ATN from somewhere. Robin Livingstone and the ATN now have a DUTY of obligation to their readers, profession and conscience to reveal if they were threatened in ANY way regarding this. In absence of any statement or story rumours and innuendo will continue to flourish and confidence in the paper will ebb away.
Posted by on Mar 28, 2008 @ 12:49 AMGo EASY on tHe CAPITALS, LUrIG.
Posted by on Mar 28, 2008 @ 01:16 AMIt’s better than SHOUTING!!!!!!
Posted by on Mar 28, 2008 @ 01:32 AMIs that Robin singing at the Aishling Awards?
Posted by on Mar 28, 2008 @ 08:03 AMWhat Lurig said…
Posted by on Mar 28, 2008 @ 10:28 AM“the BBC NI news website didn’t cover Squinter’s piece in the first place, so has no real call to publish a follow-up. Also, why would they even be interested in this piece as newsworthy item when it didn’t even make the Belly Tele. “
As soon as the retraction and apology was on the streets the printers had plastic bags put over their heads.
“I can’t say it enough!
Be pure!
Be vigilant!
Behave!”They have loud speakers at the Khmer Media Group now, the Squinter column is beig replaced by a cartoon strip of Torquemada.
“A true leader is prepared to destroy those he loves for his cause.”
Great stuff.
G.
Posted by on Mar 28, 2008 @ 02:06 PM“Furthermore there aren’t that many people on the BBC online team - it’s about two or three hacks a shift so they wouldn’t have the time to sit and transcribe everything on Radio Ulster. “
It is very easy to manipulate the BBC, for a huge corporation, they have very few primary news generators.
I can cite you numerous examples of things being kicked into touch by a single phone call from one person or another.
They will publish complete crap if they’re asked in the right way. I remember once they zilched a UUP broadcast because the PSNI said they had not raided a brothel on Tate’s Ave.
I’d been woken up that day by a call from Veronica Guerin’s brother. I was then involved on the margins and asked for my take by several people as to what was going on.
The SBD&VT;initiative (vice squad) was connected to the brothel in Tates Ave. That was the price the PSNI were forced to pay for scammming the BBC.
Alan Erwin was the only journalist who went ahead and published a reasonable account.
The only error there was the ‘from England’ part. That was the agreed obfuscation relation to the educational visa abuses.
Foreign girls in theory at English universities.
FRIDAY 09/01/2004 14:20:12
‘White slavery’ in Belfast brothels
Eastern European women are being smuggled across the Irish border to work in Belfast brothels, it was claimed today.
By:Press AssociationIn some countries, *all* the educational visas issued by the British were for prostitution.
G.
Posted by on Mar 28, 2008 @ 02:27 PMfor those of us who have orientation problems or don’t know our dheises from our cles ,let’s go quick march with the simplest option of all, tie a wee bit around your ankle and
hay, straw, hay, straw, hay, straw.....Posted by on Apr 03, 2008 @ 09:51 PMThe main thing is that the anti-Monarchists were crushed, His Sublime Shinnerness, was shaken but not stirred, Squinter was hunted in the hedges, and may he burn like a heretic.
Posted by on Apr 03, 2008 @ 10:16 PM
