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Moira Stuart in early-morning cock-up!

Umm...errr...aahh...eek! (January 2006)

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ST
STV Today
BBC WORLD posted:
Quorida,

What would you advocate as a solution to someone (any human being, for that matter) making a mistake in their job? I would be interested to know if a few fluffed lines really is a sackable offence. Perhaps the "cock up" arose out of technical or feedback difficulties that the viewer could never have witnessed, and only Moira and the gallery were aware of????

Anyway, I will most probably be shot down for jumping to Moira Stuart's defence, but I consider her to be an excellent presenter and not deserving to be replaced by a "qualified" journalist, who could just as easily be beset by technical problems or even human error.

James Wink


Well done James...I will most certainly back you up. I mean it must be great to never make any huge mistakes in life. The pressures and tolerances of a perfect being; we are so blessed having such a superior being in our forum!
DV
darth vader
Anne MacKenzie Fan posted:
BBC WORLD posted:
Quorida,

What would you advocate as a solution to someone (any human being, for that matter) making a mistake in their job? I would be interested to know if a few fluffed lines really is a sackable offence. Perhaps the "cock up" arose out of technical or feedback difficulties that the viewer could never have witnessed, and only Moira and the gallery were aware of????

Anyway, I will most probably be shot down for jumping to Moira Stuart's defence, but I consider her to be an excellent presenter and not deserving to be replaced by a "qualified" journalist, who could just as easily be beset by technical problems or even human error.

James Wink


Well done James...I will most certainly back you up. I mean it must be great to never make any huge mistakes in life. The pressures and tolerances of a perfect being; we are so blessed having such a superior being in our forum!


So true. If only us lesser mortals could understand the fatal mistake of making a mistake.
SP
Spencer
Anne MacKenzie Fan posted:
BBC WORLD posted:
Quorida,

What would you advocate as a solution to someone (any human being, for that matter) making a mistake in their job? I would be interested to know if a few fluffed lines really is a sackable offence. Perhaps the "cock up" arose out of technical or feedback difficulties that the viewer could never have witnessed, and only Moira and the gallery were aware of????

Anyway, I will most probably be shot down for jumping to Moira Stuart's defence, but I consider her to be an excellent presenter and not deserving to be replaced by a "qualified" journalist, who could just as easily be beset by technical problems or even human error.

James Wink


Well done James...I will most certainly back you up. I mean it must be great to never make any huge mistakes in life. The pressures and tolerances of a perfect being; we are so blessed having such a superior being in our forum!


Absolutely. And what's to say that a trained journalist, say Louisa Preston or Suzanne Virdee, working on the same shift, reading an autocue and expecting to read a pre-written question wouldn't also be thrown when there isn't one to read?
JO
johnnybegood
mizzb posted:
pip posted:
totally agree... everyone makes mistakes... what's the fuss all about... she could have suddenly experienced a searing pain in one of her temples and thought she was having a stroke... or realised that she'd left the gas on or anything... maybe some lesbians were attaching themselves quietly to her chair.

whatever it was... 20 seconds of error in a 25 year career is hardly the end of British broadcasting as we know it.

LEAVE BIG MOIRA ALONE


If Lesbians were attaching themseleves to her seat then she would have naturally been distracted but Moira would have known how to handle them.
Razz


Indeed...if the Moira and Pam St. Clement rumours are to go by... Smile
ST
STV Today
johnnybegood posted:
mizzb posted:
pip posted:
totally agree... everyone makes mistakes... what's the fuss all about... she could have suddenly experienced a searing pain in one of her temples and thought she was having a stroke... or realised that she'd left the gas on or anything... maybe some lesbians were attaching themselves quietly to her chair.

whatever it was... 20 seconds of error in a 25 year career is hardly the end of British broadcasting as we know it.

LEAVE BIG MOIRA ALONE


If Lesbians were attaching themseleves to her seat then she would have naturally been distracted but Moira would have known how to handle them.
Razz


Indeed...if the Moira and Pam St. Clement rumours are to go by... Smile


Well that changes my thoughts on her then Rolling Eyes

If she has sex with a sheep...she is still a legend, and is much better than many that are forced upon us if we want to watch the news.

What a daft comment to make!!
JO
johnnybegood
Anne MacKenzie Fan posted:
johnnybegood posted:
mizzb posted:
pip posted:
totally agree... everyone makes mistakes... what's the fuss all about... she could have suddenly experienced a searing pain in one of her temples and thought she was having a stroke... or realised that she'd left the gas on or anything... maybe some lesbians were attaching themselves quietly to her chair.

whatever it was... 20 seconds of error in a 25 year career is hardly the end of British broadcasting as we know it.

LEAVE BIG MOIRA ALONE


If Lesbians were attaching themseleves to her seat then she would have naturally been distracted but Moira would have known how to handle them.
Razz


Indeed...if the Moira and Pam St. Clement rumours are to go by... Smile


Well that changes my thoughts on her then Rolling Eyes

If she has sex with a sheep...she is still a legend, and is much better than many that are forced upon us if we want to watch the news.

What a daft comment to make!!


Was that a reference to me? I was actually joking...
ST
STV Today
johnnybegood posted:
Anne MacKenzie Fan posted:
johnnybegood posted:
mizzb posted:
pip posted:
totally agree... everyone makes mistakes... what's the fuss all about... she could have suddenly experienced a searing pain in one of her temples and thought she was having a stroke... or realised that she'd left the gas on or anything... maybe some lesbians were attaching themselves quietly to her chair.

whatever it was... 20 seconds of error in a 25 year career is hardly the end of British broadcasting as we know it.

LEAVE BIG MOIRA ALONE


If Lesbians were attaching themseleves to her seat then she would have naturally been distracted but Moira would have known how to handle them.
Razz


Indeed...if the Moira and Pam St. Clement rumours are to go by... Smile


Well that changes my thoughts on her then Rolling Eyes

If she has sex with a sheep...she is still a legend, and is much better than many that are forced upon us if we want to watch the news.

What a daft comment to make!!


Was that a reference to me? I was actually joking...


Perhaps I have a sense of humour by-pass, but I don't find that funny - or do I have to be a ball scratching bloke to get it?

Yet my comments were mainly directed to mizzb.
JO
johnnybegood
Anne MacKenzie Fan posted:
johnnybegood posted:
Anne MacKenzie Fan posted:
johnnybegood posted:
mizzb posted:
pip posted:
totally agree... everyone makes mistakes... what's the fuss all about... she could have suddenly experienced a searing pain in one of her temples and thought she was having a stroke... or realised that she'd left the gas on or anything... maybe some lesbians were attaching themselves quietly to her chair.

whatever it was... 20 seconds of error in a 25 year career is hardly the end of British broadcasting as we know it.

LEAVE BIG MOIRA ALONE


If Lesbians were attaching themseleves to her seat then she would have naturally been distracted but Moira would have known how to handle them.
Razz


Indeed...if the Moira and Pam St. Clement rumours are to go by... Smile


Well that changes my thoughts on her then Rolling Eyes

If she has sex with a sheep...she is still a legend, and is much better than many that are forced upon us if we want to watch the news.

What a daft comment to make!!


Was that a reference to me? I was actually joking...


Perhaps I have a sense of humour by-pass, but I don't find that funny - or do I have to be a ball scratching bloke to get it?


Not at all, I'm not -it's just that particular reference has been around for a very long time, and not started by me.

Anyway, back to Moira as a newsreader...
JO
Jonathan
Sorry to rain on your parade, but we're not meant to discuss high profile television personalities' sexuality here. You don't know how many newspeople could have visited this site, if they googled themselves. Moira's great Very Happy

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