I was going to write about these people:
This is Yasmin Alibhai-Brown. She's a journalist and broadcaster. I've heard her on the radio a few times. She has strong views and expresses them forcefully. I heard her on Channel 4 News last week, having a go at Rod Liddle, another journalist who has roundly insulted her in his new book. She claims he's a misogynist.
The next day, I came across a news report that this man, Michael Fabricant, a Tory MP, had tweeted that he wouldn't be able to appear alongside Yasmin Alibhai-Brown without wanting to punch her in the throat. Way to go, Michael: threaten violence against a woman. You'll be amazed to learn this is not allowed, however 'annoying' you think she is.
Channel 4 News obviously knew a good story when they saw one so they then got this man, James Delingpole, another journalist, to square up to Yasmin Alibhai-Brown. In the discussion he referred to her and the C4 journalist alongside her as 'girls' and said he wouldn't stop criticising Yasmin Alibhai-Brown just because 'missy' gets upset.
Tonight on Sky News Review, Andrew Pierce, a journalist with the Mail, commented on Judy Murray.
This is Yasmin Alibhai-Brown. She's a journalist and broadcaster. I've heard her on the radio a few times. She has strong views and expresses them forcefully. I heard her on Channel 4 News last week, having a go at Rod Liddle, another journalist who has roundly insulted her in his new book. She claims he's a misogynist.
The next day, I came across a news report that this man, Michael Fabricant, a Tory MP, had tweeted that he wouldn't be able to appear alongside Yasmin Alibhai-Brown without wanting to punch her in the throat. Way to go, Michael: threaten violence against a woman. You'll be amazed to learn this is not allowed, however 'annoying' you think she is.
Channel 4 News obviously knew a good story when they saw one so they then got this man, James Delingpole, another journalist, to square up to Yasmin Alibhai-Brown. In the discussion he referred to her and the C4 journalist alongside her as 'girls' and said he wouldn't stop criticising Yasmin Alibhai-Brown just because 'missy' gets upset.
Tonight on Sky News Review, Andrew Pierce, a journalist with the Mail, commented on Judy Murray.
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Not her achievements as a tennis coach but her hair. He's glad she's going on Strictly because they'll have hairdressers there.
What do these men have in common? Apart from being misogynists, I mean. They are all journalists for London newspapers. All right wing. All living in that cosy wee world in which they are overpaid and taken far too seriously because the owners of their newspapers - not them - have a lot of political clout.
Meanwhile, in Egypt, journalists have been working on the front line, sometimes putting their lives in danger to report what has been happening there for the past year. Their work has been outstanding. In fact, if you want to know what's happening in the middle east, their reports to Al Jazeera are the only ones we can rely on.
Three of them have now been sentenced to prison terms of between 7 and 10 years. Their employer, their governments (one of them is Canadian), Amnesty International - everyone is condemning their treatment. They have 'earned' these sentences by doing their jobs.
I'd love to send a few London journalists to Cairo to get an idea of what life is like for real journalists in the real world.
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