Biased BBC’s Alan observes;
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01h7k21/Have_I_Got_News_for_You_Series_43_Episode_4/
‘Have I Got News For You’ loads the dice by having Jeremy Clarkson host the show…..easy meat for Hislop and Merton when Murdoch has just been villified by people with no vested interests what so ever.
Clarkson as well as being a columnist for the Murdoch (Boo Hiss) Sun is also one of the notorious ‘Chipping Norton Set’ renowned for eating babies and hunting down members of the public for sport whilst riding Rebecca Wade’s horses that she stole from the Met Police’s Community Riding Facility for Disadvantaged Toerags. (In a way that’s not a joke…..Cue one unemployed family with a son who is a ‘slow learner’. The council pays them £300/month to spend on anything they like that will ‘improve’ the boy’s life……they own 5, count ’em, five, horses.)
The programme admittedly was v. funny and Clarkson the butt of the jokes regarding his closeness to all things Murdoch…..he took it all very well….even Merton’s poe-faced disapproval of his association with Murdoch & Co.
Fourteen minutes in we get a reference the anti-aircraft rockets place on a block of flats in London and to Brian Whelan, once a journalist himself and now a Yahoo editor and concerned citizen. Whelan says he is opposed to the missiles as they make his home a target for terrorists.
However he was the one that immediately tweeted their location to the world and is milking the situation for every penny with appearances on most of the media including the Sunday Times….and is selling the rights to the photos…if you want some contact:
‘Brian Whelan @brianwhelanhack
Photoset: Missiles appear on the roof. Email for publication/syndication rights ©‘
He is now being evicted from his flat for breaching his lease agreement but it’s OK, a Hooman rights lawyer has seen his dilemma and come to his rescue…..and his sister has defended his honour after Jeremy Clarkson called him a ‘Twat’. Whelan is now pretty obsessed with ‘exposing’ the EDL and all things Right Wing. Expect to hear more from him on the BBC who no doubt will be in touch.
I think it is a fair comment that this week’s HIGNFY was a ‘Murdoch Special’ and set up to allow as much comment as possible….Hislop is no friend of News International and nor is Merton…..Nancy Dell’Olio is a Sun columnist (fashion) but hardly speaks a known version of English and Clarkson is a genial orangutan who is not going to take too much umbrage or defend Murdoch overly much. If only Murdoch had a sister like Brian Whelan’s who would leap to his defence in a flurry of outraged blog he might have a coherent and strong defence