John Pilger Interview NYDay

FlutterinBantam

jaysus!!!

Just heard McGuirk interview John Pilger @1800 RTE1

What a pussycat!!!.. treated Pilger like some kind of frikken deity!!

Cmon here:mad:

ElCrapula

Didnt hear the interview so maybe shouldnt comment but................... Pilger is a journalistic God,so why not?

FlutterinBantam

Just another journalist to me buddy,albeit a very well informed one.

jeez... don't be so taken in .

ElCrapula

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

Just another journalist to me buddy,albeit a very well informed one.

jeez... don't be so taken in .

Taken in by what?

Check out Pilgers documentaries,"just another journalist" he aint.

FlutterinBantam

jaysus.

I know he is good, I have seen his documentaries,but that doesn't mean I have to lie down and wallow in his pronouncements and opinions as McGuirk did tonight( well!.whenever it was recorded:D)

Just because someone writes for a newspaper or appears on TV doesn't mean that I ,for one, takes all they say as gospel.

respect yes, but total subjugation, no way Jose!!

ElCrapula

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

jaysus.

I know he is good, I have seen his documentaries,but that doesn't mean I have to lie down and wallow in his pronouncements and opinions as McGuirk did tonight( well!.whenever it was recorded:D)

Just because someone writes for a newspaper or appears on TV doesn't mean that I ,for one, takes all they say as gospel.

respect yes, but total subjugation, no way Jose!!

Nobodies asking you to "lie down and wallow in his pronouncements and opinions like McGuirk did".Im sure when its your turn to interview John Pilger,youll stick him with the tough questions

FlutterinBantam

Ah look it's 2009 Peace.:p

Listen to the podcast and tell me if Mcguirk went out of character or not.

Normally he is a feisty and combative kind of guy.

All I'm saying is we shouldn't treat these people ,however good they are, as deitys.

I'm never going to interview Pilger, I'm just an ordinary Joe.

ElCrapula

Happy New Year

humberklog

God Awful.

The Pilger interview was apalling. Didn't extract sod all of interest from a very interesting subject. Tom's fawning was cringe inducing.

This behaviour was only trumped with the abysmal Germaine Greer interview on the 30th (I think). This interview was conducted in seperate studios and therefore lacked any warmth of depth. Once again Tom blustered his subject with vacuous nonsense. Once again a interview that I was looking forward to scuppered by a badly judged approach by a presenter that hasn't a scooby fecking doo how to ask a question properly.

irish_bob

tom mcgurk is a champagne socilist (and IMO away from rugby is intollerable) and john pilger is the poster boy for left wing journalists , makes sense that mcgurk was on his knees durring the interview

p.s

i think john pilger is a great great journalist , full of integrity

FlutterinBantam

Country is full of champaign socialists, chock a block.