tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8441439.post7297832554217722567..comments2023-11-19T17:31:49.939+00:00Comments on Bristling Badger: independent rests on sundayUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8441439.post-61396505490275308942007-12-03T11:54:00.000+00:002007-12-03T11:54:00.000+00:00Cole, if you do indeed have a tape recording of th...Cole, if you do indeed have a tape recording of the interviews, does it include the woman saying that we have to bring down capitalism before we can tackle climate change?<BR/><BR/><I>I reflect what I find.</I>.<BR/><BR/>And how did you 'find' that a Camper was wearing a smart black dress 'calculated' to give a misleading good impression to locals, rather than simply wearing what she wears normally?<BR/><BR/>How did you 'find' that Merlin's dove T-shirt also had such overtones, rather than, again, being part of his normal wardrobe?<BR/><BR/>Your report described his hairstyle - nice, relevant stuff - except that you even got that wrong.<BR/><BR/>[cue the clipclop of a high horse]<BR/><BR/><I>I do understand climate change, and I have sympathy with those who try to do something about it - but not with people who seem to be happy with a press that is either demonising them or making them about to be saints, but confused when they meet a reporter who asks difficult questions and writes down their answers.</I><BR/><BR/>Cole, the Campers dealing with media did hundreds and hundreds of interviews. They relished the difficult ones over the tedious ones about the toilets at the camp. What they disliked was deliberate misrepresentation from people who knew better. <BR/><BR/>This happened in several ways; some were like your article and tried to make Campers out as bomb-making anarcho-demons. <BR/><BR/>Others tried to sanitise and 'normalise' it - some refused to take quotes from people who didn't have a 'normal' job or family role title! <BR/><BR/>Others used quotes selectively to show that the demands of the Camp were somehow easy and cuddly, just a bit of light-bulb changing.<BR/><BR/>All of these were a betrayal of what had been said to the journalist.<BR/><BR/>[whinny!]<BR/><BR/><I>I was never given a right to reply, but maybe your own standards don't apply when it comes to internet postings?</I><BR/><BR/>Cole, it's a blog. Presuming you understand the format, people write about things that bother them. It's not a newspaper of record. That said, I always allow Comments on posts and (excepting ones that exclusively contain insults) always leave them up irrespective of their opinion. <BR/><BR/>Look, here you are making your point, and you can have as much uncensored space as you want to do it in. Which is more than the Campers got in response to your piece, so get out of that saddle.merrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10959849087751101034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8441439.post-32864180715888548012007-12-01T17:50:00.000+00:002007-12-01T17:50:00.000+00:00There are many things I could write in response to...There are many things I could write in response to the part of this that concerns me, but I will settle for just two. The first is that it's tosh, a misrepresentation of what happened. The second is that unlike the person who posted it I have a contemporaneous record of everything I saw and heard that night, including a tape recording of the interviews. I went without an agenda and did not perform a stitch up - I represented the difference between what was said in the meeting and what was said on the record, on tape, to me in interviews before it. I don't do stitch ups. I reflect what I find. I do understand climate change, and I have sympathy with those who try to do something about it - but not with people who seem to be happy with a press that is either demonising them or making them about to be saints, but confused when they meet a reporter who asks difficult questions and writes down their answers. I've said more than I meant to, having stumbled across this posting when I was looking for something else. I was never given a right to reply, but maybe your own standards don't apply when it comes to internet postings? Cole MoretonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com