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Unguarded private conversations
Why is the excuse that 'it was a private conversations' trooped out whenever someone is found out to be revealing who they really are?
Ron Atkinson - "Desailly is what is known in some schools as a lazy thick n*gger".
Carol Thatcher - "'You also have to consider the frogs. You know, that froggy golliwog guy.'
Prince Harry - "My P*ki friend over there"
Gordon Brown - "...that bigoted woman"
Should private conversations remain just that, no matter what's said?
If, say, Sir Paul Stephenson was recorded in a private conversation saying something mental like "Jews are behind all the world's wars", or Sir Trevor McDonald commenting that he'd rather kill himself than see his daughter "marry a white man", should we ignore it?
Ron Atkinson - "Desailly is what is known in some schools as a lazy thick n*gger".
Carol Thatcher - "'You also have to consider the frogs. You know, that froggy golliwog guy.'
Prince Harry - "My P*ki friend over there"
Gordon Brown - "...that bigoted woman"
Should private conversations remain just that, no matter what's said?
If, say, Sir Paul Stephenson was recorded in a private conversation saying something mental like "Jews are behind all the world's wars", or Sir Trevor McDonald commenting that he'd rather kill himself than see his daughter "marry a white man", should we ignore it?
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Atkinson said his comment in a TV booth on a microphone. Brown had a microphone.
Harry said what he siad in a public place to many people don't remember Thatcher.
All of the above are all abstract unpleasant comments but Triesman was specific, so the question is, does what he said have any basis in fact.
He has never struck me as an idiot, so did he just make some abstract comment up out of thin air.
Harry said what he siad in a public place to many people don't remember Thatcher.
All of the above are all abstract unpleasant comments but Triesman was specific, so the question is, does what he said have any basis in fact.
He has never struck me as an idiot, so did he just make some abstract comment up out of thin air.
Well, it's case , there but for the grace of.......etc. Can any of us say that we would say out loud to the world media every opinion we have? You SP? Me? I don't think so! In a certain circle of friends we may all say things that are not for public consumption, or perhaps say them in a certain way privately among close friends for effect. Perhaps that's why the press love to spring these traps. I suppose there is a certain on/off the record type of dichotomy in all of us.
On a daily...actually, it might be more like hourly basis, I say things which would be embarrassing if broadcast over the PA system at work.
In addition to that, I'd say a large proportion of emails I send could be described as libellous.
But it's getting to a point now where we seem to expect levels of behaviour in the famous that we have no hope of emulating ourselves.
In addition to that, I'd say a large proportion of emails I send could be described as libellous.
But it's getting to a point now where we seem to expect levels of behaviour in the famous that we have no hope of emulating ourselves.
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