Dear Guido,
I am writing to you to check your availability the weekend of August 24-26th.
It would be fantastic if you might be available at some point that weekend (most likely the Sunday) to take part in this year's MediaGuardian Edinburgh International TV Festival. We were hoping you will be free in principle for a high-profile session we intend to put on titled "The Power of Gossip." This session which will involve panellists including the author of the websites/mailouts "holymoly" and Adam Bullmore of October Films - will entail discussing the power of blogs and the internet and will question whether TV will ever be able to produce gossip as successfully.
It would not be a problem to arrange your participation behind a screen of sorts if you wish to protect your identity.
Looking forward to hearing from you soon.
With best wishes
Lucy
Lucy Crystal | Interview Producer | BBC Newsnight
58 comments:
Lucy
Guido regrets. However.......
Do call my mate Tim(Manic) Ireland - he is well rounded, laid back, socially in tune, extremely clever and very popular in the blogosphere.
I am a Post Grad broadcast journalism student currently writing an essay on the issue of whether specialist journalists do indeed become to close to their contacts to full serve the interests of their readers/viewers.
After watching your Newsnight interview, in which if i'm honest I don't think you came out very favourably, unlike in your news night film, which was much, more thought provoking. I am interested in getting a clear picture of what you think about this issue, and would welcome a statement or any clarification I can use.
Thank you in advance
http://cheriewillers.blogspot.com
cheriewillers@hotmail.com
I'm with crackers
Cannot cope with the "real world" of anony @ 2.46pm
Nor the real blog of Cherie.
Alternatively Guido you could suggest they send *hite to his own TV Fest and pay him appropriately!!
Cherie,
Did they teach you how to use email on your journalism course?
Go on Guido. This is actually nothing to do with Newsnight, it's the Edinburgh TV Festival. Why don't you put it to a vote of your readers?
Fly back from the South of France to do self-justification to a load of coked-up TV execs?
Why?
Guido. Perhaps a timely reminder that the last time you were encouraged like that, you strapped on the skies and went hurtling over the shark. Like this guy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpraJYnbVtE
As would the readers ...
go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on
Oh go on
Have they offered to pay for /secure a hotel room for you?
I can't see why not. You have to accept you are now part of the dubious establishement.
I hope all the TV execs remember to take their passports to Edinburgh this year.
Go on, and be a diva! Janet Jackson demands a basket of cute kittens backstage.
Is it the Fringe?
I think you'll find the Sockpuppet Festival is in October...
I dare you to send a ringer...
I'd pay to hear guido take part in a "high-profile session"...
what if they promised some of the Sith were available for interrogation, sorry interview.....
dont do it
do
dont
Fly back from the South of France to do self-justification to a load of coked-up TV execs?
Why?
Yes but what if we give you some coke?
TV Exec.
You looked silly enough in shadow on television. If they put you behind "a screen of sorts" you're just going to look like a shady gangster giving evidence in court. Don't do it.
Simply they badly need to soil you.
You don't need them they are yesterday.
But if you must, ask 500k per appearance (no negotiation) make them pay.
Remember what (some of) your loyal readers said last time - DON'T DO IT Guido!
Remember that when a potential suicide stands on a ledge on a tall building, there's always a gang of prats below shouting "Jump" because they want to see his brains splattered all over the pavement, safe in the knowledge that they are perfectly fine where they are.
From some of the postings above, I can hear those prats now.........
Guido don't do it ,you know the Beeb are after your audience of sock puppet anonymongs, as our nice guy Tim Ireland likes to call us.
What is it, once bitten etc.
Anyways, behind "a screen of sorts"?
I hate liquorice. Insist on jelly babies.
They're trying to buy your soul Guido! They just want to control the blogashpere, or at least the importnat parts of it. Shame on you if your vanity gets the better of you.
Guido
How much dosh is on offer? If you want, I will be "you" behind a screen for a few nick nacks
Ernest
jj said...
Remember what (some of) your loyal readers said last time - DON'T DO IT Guido!
Ignore jj Guido do it !
Turn up in a rugby shirt.
Cherie Willers writes:
"I am a Post Grad broadcast journalism student currently writing an essay on the issue of whether specialist journalists do indeed become to close to their contacts to full serve the interests of their readers/viewers...."
If that comment came from a postgraduate student then it confirms the depth of trouble our education system is in.
The child is barely literate.
And before anyone starts: yes it does matter - particularly given her chosen trade.
gcooper - thanks for writing that comment for me. I trust Cherie is hanging her head in shame, if she can even work out what is wrong.
My god, what have the lefty luvvies done to our education system over the last 45 years.
mike writes:
"You are a real charmer judith and no mistake, enjoy humiliating folk do you ? You odious little twit follow your new found buddy gcooper and take a hike."
Listen, you halfwit. If someone can reach postgraduate level in their chosen career without even mastering the basic elements of their craft, then something has gone very badly wrong with the world.
I'm sorry you are so much a product of child-centred education that you believe someone pointing that out is a 'bully', but there you go.
Let's just hope the next aeroplane you fly in, or bridge you drive across, was not designed by a similarly qualified product of our carin' 'n sharin' edukashun system.
'Hi Michael it's Jeremy. That sucker Guido Fawkes has agreed to appear again. Are you free on August 24th?'
It is a trap.Edinburgh is close to Fife, the home of our beloved future leader.You will be denounced by the Pravdian and the BBC and "disappear".A remote island perhaps or worse still tied in a chair and forced to attend every comedy show at the festival.Stay on the net.
Anyone vaguely conservative getting a fair hearing on the BBC, ha ha oh my sides, what an idea.
Nice bit of pro terrorist reporting on Newsnight though.
From Mike, 8.26pm - "Ignore jj Guido do it ! "
I said I could hear those prats shouting Guido - Don't Do It - you know it makes sense.........
Guido
DONT.DONT.Do battle on your chosen ground i.e.the net.You are hurting the likes of Sir Michael, PollynuLab, JSnow and the rest of the Nulabestablishement. They are feeling it.That's why they want to get you onto their preferred territory.Remember, they need to put one overe you.
Stay where you are strongest.They will hate you for it.
If you get wasted and drunkenly email them Yes, please insist on doing the session from behind a screen and naked. And invite them to do the same. They'll be too distracted playing "spot the belt loops" to go for the kill.
For those with a quiet Friday on their hands aspiring cub reporter Cherie Willer's blog (http://cheriewillers.blogspot.com) is well worth a visit - I found at least 4 confusing grammatical errors in the Thursday post, before I became restless and wandered outside to kick the dog.
Tuscan Tony wrote:
...aspiring cub reporter Cherie Willer's blog...is well worth a visit ...
It is indeed. I thought this bit was priceless:
Although maybe not for everyone, they have a very folky sound and don't seem to strive for commercial success, I now, am definitely a bonified fan.
Never mind the utter failure to grasp even the most basic rules of punctuation. What the hell is "bonified"?
This is from a post-grad in journalism? I would have thought that grammar, punctuation and, God help us, spelling are the most basic tools of a journalist.
This is not even laughable; it's just depressing.
This Cherie Willers can't be for real, can she? That Midlake review is shockingly bad. But the post underneath about - ho hum - climate change is unbelievable...
"I'm currently putting together a radio documentary on living a carbon neutral lifestyle...
I'm a bit of a dunce when it comes to the environment..."
So, why are you doing it then? Surely no one is that hopeless?
The Ludingtonian said..."What the hell is "bonified"? "basic rules of punctuation"
I am surprised you have not come across the word "bonified"before, it means at peace with the world and all living things,a love of good wines and food as supplied by Tesco who are pleased to offer home delivery for a small charge.What's all this basic punctuation rubbish it made perfect sense to me,having read your critic would suggest a spell checker would not go amiss.People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
I say go as Zorro.
Matt
I am surprised you have not come across the word "bonified"before[.] [I]t means at peace with the world and all living things,a love of good wines and food as supplied by Tesco who are pleased to offer home delivery for a small charge.What's all this basic punctuation rubbish[?] [I]t made perfect sense to me[.] [H]aving read your criti[que] [I] would suggest a spell checker would not go amiss.
People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
Ahem.
The Ludingtonian said..
Yes but I am old and have a sense of humour,you it would appear do not and are a very silly person.
Yes but I am old and have a sense of humour,you it would appear do not and are a very silly person.
You're half right.
are a very silly person
That's the half.
Friday comments are the BEST, aren't they?
raincoaster, everyone's bladdered, which certainly helps. Maggie T wouldn't have sunk the Belgrano without several large pink gins to fortify her.
I dunno. Thatcher probably could have done it stone-cold sober, with her bare hands.
Tuscan Tony said..Maggie T wouldn't have sunk the Belgrano without several large pink gins to fortify her.
raincoaster said...I dunno. Thatcher probably could have done it stone-cold sober, with her bare hands.
Yes but in the words of the great Clint Eastwood "what does she do at night when the demons come" all those deaths on her conscience,rather her than me.
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hmm well I think it is moore thaan thaughable that you the all knowing showuld critize a student of journalism for bad punctuality and spelling or whateva it is that you sweaty keyboard lovers are going on about.....for one I think that your shortsightedness should bee apreciated for having such a narrow version of what a journalizt is. maybe she is after a career away from the mighty pen in something which values information, story, technical ability or managerial skillz over anal atention to the writtn word......hmm what could that be ....maybe television, radio, producing, directing, techincal operating.....any number of jobs which don't on a daily basis have to deal with the outdated stuffy ass public school opinion of 'writers' jesus!
as a student of jounalism who has risen above writing lefty / righty , punctuallllly correct student magazine writing she should be applauded for trying to research her material from as many saurces as possible . not torn apart for a couple of TYPING mistakes and an HONEST blog.
The Luddites were a social movement of English textile workers in the early 1800s who protested — often by destroying textile machines — against the changes produced by the Industrial Revolution, which they felt threatened their livelihood.
hmmmm a think I smell a ludite.
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The Ludingtonian said...
Tuscan Tony wrote:
...aspiring cub reporter Cherie Willer's blog...is well worth a visit ...
It is indeed. I thought this bit was priceless:
Although maybe not for everyone, they have a very folky sound and don't seem to strive for commercial success, I now, am definitely a bonified fan.
Never mind the utter failure to grasp even the most basic rules of punctuation. What the hell is "bonified"?
This is from a post-grad in journalism? I would have thought that grammar, punctuation and, God help us, spelling are the most basic tools of a journalist.
This is not even laughable; it's just depressing.
1:52 PM, April 13, 2007
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I would have thought that radio, television and the internet were now relevant forms of journalism free from the punctuation police I mean 'God help us' we be restricted to the written word of a bygone medium.
Support the student.
In case it hasn't already been noted: Michael White has done the diary for the latest issue of the Spectator, and Guido gets a paragraph - in which his real name is revealed again. Still, not too bad, all things considered.
Who is is , Where is it It is here,
http://www.lonympics.co.uk/Comedy_Soccer/Broox.htm
mike said..."what does she do at night when the demons come".
She probably sleeps soundly, because she was liberating her country from a foreign invader.
In contrast, Anthony Blair is a war criminal (http://www.serbianna.com/columns/savich/088.shtml).
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