Saturday, December 26, 2009

Apology Of The Day

Oops:

We mistakenly stated that the BBC producer behind Dragon’s Den had been convicted of having 1,410 repulsive child porn images.

He had not.

No hard feelings then!

5 comments:

Mark Wadsworth said...

Fair play to them, easy mistake to make.

JuliaM said...

It's not like the 'David Davies/David Davis' problem, these two were even spelled the same...

asquith said...

If I didn't hate the tabloids beforehand, I would have violently turned against them at the time that they savaged Robert Murat. I remember reading about how weird he supposedly was, his "mates" slagging him off. I thought at the time, when he was still a suspect, I felt sympathetic as it's probably other people having an adverse reaction rather than owt he's done wrong.

Now I see no evidence that the allegations against him have any basis whatsoever, I read some pathetic "apologies" to this effect. But it seems to me they're not sorry, if they were they could show their remorse by never doing another charachter* assassination, but they show their lack of genuine contrition every day.

Rightly are they called scum.

*Although I am a near-perfect speller, & accordingly tend not to use spell checks, I could never get that one word right!

Ross said...

Yeah the treatment of Murat was a lot like the treatment of Colin Stagg. They throw out enough titbits to to hurt his reputation and give the impression that he's a weirdo even after he has been exonorated.

banned said...

So just how wieredo do you have to be to 'fail' vetting by the ISA ? Ones mans 'happy in my own company' becomes anothers' 'sad, lonely wierdo loser'.