tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post1982590483877053944..comments2024-03-26T13:27:26.499+00:00Comments on Zelo Street: Neil Wallis Protests Too MuchTim Fentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726447899972084146noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-91299990577559977332015-07-06T21:52:45.278+01:002015-07-06T21:52:45.278+01:00Just to clarify ... I wasn't complaining about...Just to clarify ... I wasn't complaining about Newsnight as such - I just felt they missed a. Opportunity. Everyone including the office cat knew why Neil was on trial . It was therefore old ground. A jury had acquired him. Yes valid to ask - though Newsnight tone was that they knew better than the jury - so old ground. No missed opportunity was that he claimed victims of political witchhunt. I personally would gAve lined to discover more why he claimed this - what evidence and to have it scrutinised or discredited by Newsnight. Or open up other areas of the story. Or indeed of course seen him prove his claim was valid. That is what I would expect of Newsnight. That is journalism. Yes I was pleased Neil was cleared - my fejbfs about NOTW hacking are no secret. I strongly disapprove. I would have been disappointed if Neil was found to have been involved. However he wasn't at paper during Dowler hacking or Hames affair... . I have only worked briefly with him when I was a young casual well over 20 years ago and he was the chief reporter of a tabloid. i then had no contact until he was PR for a company my paper used. However we have had a drink and attended a gig with mates and he is good company away from a work environment. If he'd been guilty it would have been disappointing but I would still have bought him a drink. As I would you if I saw you in a bar! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-88147818461554239622015-07-06T20:37:53.723+01:002015-07-06T20:37:53.723+01:00None of you realise that Mr Wallis must have known...None of you realise that Mr Wallis must have known about police corruption, so why didn't he sing?Ciaran Gogginshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14356184898689725495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-1139322046412189912015-07-04T11:19:08.738+01:002015-07-04T11:19:08.738+01:00@ Carl Eve
"News UK lawyers who hung a host ...@ Carl Eve<br /><br />"News UK lawyers who hung a host of staff out to dry?"<br /><br />Wasn't that part of the deal? Evidence to convict those on the "shop" floor whilst the culture setters above walk free? A bit like the bankers? <br /><br />From Ian Fraser's "Shredded" re RBS and Fred Goodwin but apposite:<br /><br />"management expert Paul Kearns ... in a separete interview said "When the man at the top is a tyrant, the whole organisation becomes tyrannical. The only people that can survive in such a regime are other tyrants or people with no integrity, who will blow with the wind and behave like the tyrant. In a terror regimethe boss's motto is "either you agree with me or your career is dead in this organisation".<br /><br />Draw your own conclusions.<br />robnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-4762797703579741872015-07-03T17:26:14.479+01:002015-07-03T17:26:14.479+01:00"It was politically motivated..."
And w..."It was politically motivated..."<br /><br />And who exactly passed all those emails and evidence to the CPS Neil... the Fucking Tooth Fairy? <br /><br />Did not the evidence come from... (drumroll please) News UK lawyers who hung a host of staff out to dry? How's that for "politically motivated"? Your boss sold you out. Welcome to the world of the victims of the News of the World... Carl Evehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03930750600999601721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-81030171444698143422015-07-03T15:38:44.338+01:002015-07-03T15:38:44.338+01:00The defence of these people has jumped from "...The defence of these people has jumped from "one rogue reporter" to "one rogue editor". Un-fricking-believable!Brian Higgyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00884423787759824190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-40450869454254357542015-07-03T15:27:03.934+01:002015-07-03T15:27:03.934+01:00It reminded me of Alan Partridge interviewing a Co...It reminded me of Alan Partridge interviewing a Cockney gangster (played by Alan Ford IIRC) who was getting increasingly irritated by questions and references to all the dodgy stuff he'd been miraculously acquitted of, and ended up threatening to do him. Andy McDonaldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-25835578502793523082015-07-03T14:47:19.554+01:002015-07-03T14:47:19.554+01:00Every now and then some mainstream media hack slip...Every now and then some mainstream media hack slips up and actually asks pertinent questions. Despite being a dead duck for 99% of the time this applies to Newsnight and even occasionally to Channel 4 News.<br /><br />But whoever interviewed Wallis the result was always the same. I immediately felt an urgent need to shower. The guy looks and sounds like a cockney barrow boy, a sort of whiskered up Terry Venables.<br /><br />Sure, he and some others were acquitted so that makes them innocent in the eyes of the law. However, that doesn't prevent me from making my own assessment of available evidence.<br /><br />And the law is a ass, sir, a ass.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-28703052627905985962015-07-03T14:13:12.966+01:002015-07-03T14:13:12.966+01:00Looking forward to calling a CEO claiming "th...Looking forward to calling a CEO claiming "they didn't know" the Neil and Bekah defense.<br /><br />I'm sure the second the papers pour scorn on a CEO or manager doing that (Expect social worker)it'll be a pile of great proportions.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com