RIPs

[Frank]

The media have a lot to answer for around the world but never want to put their hand up to anything and when it does blow up  in their faces they try to pass the blame.

As BigBarryPenge! points out above, the media are only pandering to an ugly side of all our natures.

[vzzbux]

A recent example was with the BBC after the Saville stuff started coming out, they jumped on the alledged unnamed tory MP involved in child sex pushing it as top news. We all know now that was untrue and it was ITV and Schofield that took the brunt.
Get your facts right first, media.




V

[Trout]

...the hypocrisy of the media.

The media we get are the media we pay for.  And before Troutfire has to say it, 'media' is not some homogenous entity.

Exactly. When this hospital made a reference to "journalistic trickery", every journalist I know was horrified and angry. These idiots aren't journalists. Everyone I know was very sad for this poor nurse.

[Zarjazzer]

The media have a lot to answer for around the world but never want to put their hand up to anything and when it does blow up  in their faces they try to pass the blame.



V

They want power but no responsibility. I feel very sorry for that poor nurse and her family. A terrible tragedy.

[Steve Green]

A recent example was with the BBC after the Saville stuff started coming out, they jumped on the alledged unnamed tory MP involved in child sex pushing it as top news. We all know now that was untrue and it was ITV and Schofield that took the brunt.
Get your facts right first, media.




V

ITV and Schofield?

Give over.

The BBC took a far bigger hit, and the This Morning stunt was more amateur hour than even Newsnight's risible attempt at trying to atone for punting the Savile investigation.

And both pale into what is said on social media.

[SKD]

  It's just been on the news that Sir Patric Moore has died.

Stew.

[Dandontdare]

Sir Patrick Moore.



Legend.

[Frank]

Sir Patrick Moore.



Legend.

Xylophone legend

[Goaty]

RIP Gamesmaster

[Zarjazzer]

And a navigator as well. RIP Sir Patrick Moore. A giant in every sense.

[Spikes]

Aye, a true one-off. RIP Patrick Moore.

[TordelBack]

Patrick Moore has been one of my heroes for as long as I can remember, singlehandedly inspiring my love of stargazing and things astronomical*, and probably costing me more sleepless nights than the prospect of nuclear war and amphetamines combined. 

I only met him once, maybe 25 years ago, after a lecture in Dublin's RDS, and he was everything you would expect: warm, focused, brilliant and not a little nuts.  I have a whole bookshelf proudly dedicated to his writing, including his wonderfully British kids' SF series Scott Saunders, which at one time were my favourite books in the whole world**.

I've been pleasantly amazed to see him soldiering on for ages now, but that doesn't mean I can believe he's actually gone.  A very sad day.


* Coincidentally Patrick led at second-hand to my son getting into trouble in school on Friday, for (no doubt rudely) insisting that there were constellations called the Little Bear and Pegasus (only 'the Big Dipper' is on the curriculum ,it seems), and what's more he could point them out (he can), and that a micro-planet called Cruithne shares our orbit (it does). 

** I must have spent whole days just looking at the displays and panels on this one:

[Daveycandlish]

 

[JOE SOAP]

Patrick Moore has been one of my heroes for as long as I can remember

Me too; when I had thoughts of being smarter than I was back in Christmas 1985 I asked for and received this magnum opus,






He was one of a kind.

[Zanti Misfit]

Very sad news.  I met him in the 90's, a true gentlemen.  He said his favourite SF novel was Last and First Men by Olaf Stapeldon, so I immediately went and read it (loved it too).
Farewell, Patrick.