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Harry in Afghanistan

Mini "newsflash" on ITV1. News channels having lots of fun. (February 2008)

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BBriscoe
noggin posted:
BBriscoe posted:

Doesn't the promo say 'permanently based'? If so, then it's a lie...?


The "permanently based" line refers to the fact that the BBC have a bureau in Kabul, and a correspondent posted there full time, compared to other broadcasters who only send journalists in for specific assignments, and have no full-time permanent presence in the region. Alastair Leithead is the full time, permanent, Kabul correspondent at the moment - and he is permanently based in Afghanistan.

However, like all of us in the world of work, journalists are allowed to have holidays, and these can - amazingly enough - be taken overseas. In this case it was obviously decided to cover the region from the nearest other bureaux, rather than deploy someone in Kabul to replace him.


Which would seem a bizarre decision considering the 3rd in line to the throne was serving and fighting in that country...and they knew about it!!
JW
JamesWorldNews
BBriscoe makes a very valid point.

Not suggesting that Leithead's leave should have been cancelled, but given the fact that the news organisations thought this to be a really major story (unlike some of us), youd've thought they would have ensured continuity with having a permanent correspondent on the ground "just in case".

Geez. Listen to me. I am now starting to sound as if I approve of the whole Harry thing.
RT
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Gavin Scott posted:
DVB Cornwall posted:


Oooh he's a nosh.

Turn to page 28/29 of today's Observer, Gav...
DV
DVB Cornwall
Two weeks ago, the press united in mockery of Mohamed al-Fayed, who had alleged, in an unfortunate performance at the Diana inquest, that the royal family is still 'manipulating everything and can do anything. They are still living in the 18th or 19th century'. If Fayed's account of an intricate murder plot, with Prince Philip as the presiding genius, still sounds as bonkers as ever, one or two of his other remarks, when you re-read them, do accord with an uncomfortable feeling that we may have underestimated the Windsors.

After all, a fortnight ago, if someone had told you that Harry, recently a world-class piss artist in a Nazi costume, unable to string more than three words together, was about to be reinvented as 'the soldier prince', a national hero endowed with the moral authority to 'show us the way', it might have sounded no less baloney than Fayed's insistence that Harry's accident-prone family retains the capacity, with the help of politicians, lawyers, legions of BBC broadcasters, a willing press and assorted agents of national security, to reduce the nation to a condition of drooling complicity.........

Catherine Bennett in The Observer on Sunday March 2 2008 casts a critical eye on the media coverage ...

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