Cripes! (or given the recent success of the SNP maybe that should be 'Crivens!').
Whether it's down to Murdochophobia or merely BBC prissiness, here's one heck of a bizarre tweet from BBC old-timer Hugh Sykes:
Whether it's down to Murdochophobia or merely BBC prissiness, here's one heck of a bizarre tweet from BBC old-timer Hugh Sykes:
I hope the @thetimes will apologise to the relatives of the recently dead in #Nepal for describing the #UK #election2015
as
an
earthquake.
— HughSykes (@HughSykes) May 9, 2015
DB @4d2b
DB retweeted HughSykes
WTF?
HughSykes @HughSykes
@4d2b lazy insensitive metaphorising - ditto @guardian and probably others too.
DB @4d2b
@HughSykes Prissy and over-sensitive - expect it from the trigger-word babies who inhabit our universities nowadays, not a veteran newsman.
HughSykes @HughSykes
@4d2b #Nepal is so recent, I saw the word & thought of the dead. 'Prissy'? I remember helping get blankets to #Iran 1963 quake -12,000 dead.
DB @4d2b
@HughSykes I didn't expect to see this ridiculous trigger-word thing emerging from US academia into our media for a few years. I was wrong.
DB @4d2b
@HughSykes You were offended by a word - unrelated to the topic at hand - & want an apology. But you helped with blankets in 1963. Oh, OK.
HughSykes @HughSykes
@4d2b I think journalists should choose their words carefully, while thinking of others.
DB @4d2b
@HughSykes I think senior journalists shouldn't act like the overly-sensitive authoritarian word police of the modern-day campus.
HughSykes @HughSykes
@4d2b simply commenting not policing, and thanks for senior. Oh and for veteran!
DB @4d2b
@HughSykes re "veteran" and "senior" I was worried "old" might trigger you!
Update: Will Hugh be having words with one of his regular BBC Twitter-buddies, BBC News at Ten's Julia MacFarlane?:
Update: Will Hugh be having words with one of his regular BBC Twitter-buddies, BBC News at Ten's Julia MacFarlane?:
Demonstrates how the earthquake and tsunami metaphors for #SNP surge aren't exactly exaggerations. Via @benrileysmith pic.twitter.com/ppgZEYWfea
— Julia Macfarlane (@juliamacfarlane) May 9, 2015
Julia herself, meanwhile, has been busy in the last few hours re-tweeting the Israel-hating Electronic Intifada and, yes, some Murdoch-bashing piece. Views hers, of course.
