tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092552783161885712.post3716483071447213298..comments2024-03-13T15:35:30.839+00:00Comments on Tabloid Watch: Littlejohn unreservedly apologises for making it upMacGuffinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16894506410560858668noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092552783161885712.post-49740631795866476862009-10-12T01:42:20.188+01:002009-10-12T01:42:20.188+01:00Not quite Merrick - Littlejohn's original word...Not quite Merrick - Littlejohn's original wording included the words 'apologise unreservedly'.MacGuffinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16894506410560858668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092552783161885712.post-12479710882833941692009-10-12T00:54:56.005+01:002009-10-12T00:54:56.005+01:00And that means one thing - Littlejohn has unreserv...<i>And that means one thing - Littlejohn has unreservedly apologised for making it up.</i><br /><br />Not quite. The phrasing that was published was written by the complainant and pasted into Littlejohn's column. Which means that his apology for making it up had to be made up for him.merrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10959849087751101034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092552783161885712.post-38452416152009094492009-10-09T14:58:36.984+01:002009-10-09T14:58:36.984+01:00No Sleep 'Til Brooklands - the complainant did...No Sleep 'Til Brooklands - the complainant did mention the very same point, but the Mail rejected apologising to all Eastern Europeans as the piece was only about criminals. Thin, but the PCC accepted that.<br /><br />Unfortunately, when dealing with the PCC, apologies like this are really the best you can hope for. It's the system that's at fault. <br /><br />Still the original has been removed, the Mail's archives have been marked accordingly and Littlejohn has had to say he got it wrong.MacGuffinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16894506410560858668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092552783161885712.post-9352717092715695332009-10-09T14:38:56.938+01:002009-10-09T14:38:56.938+01:00I love this on the comments:-
"On August 14...I love this on the comments:-<br /><br /><br />"On August 14th, Young Littlejohn made a scurrilous remark in his sociology homework.<br /><br />One of the other children (tattletale!) told the head. The head asked YL to explain himself.<br /><br />YL destroyed his homework (eaten by a dog belonging to a passing tribe of travellers) but did not answer the head.<br /><br />The head contacted YL's parents, who said they'd replied but the letter must have been lost by the Posties who were probably on strike.<br /><br />The head queried why YL's parents hadn't replied to his email in the same fashion?<br /><br />The head said that YL's new homework assignment was to be an apology for his scurrilous remarks.<br /><br />YL handed in his homework weeks later, in which he repeated his scurrilous remark before making a half hearted apology for it.<br /><br />The head sent YL's homework back to him and told him to do it properly.<br /><br />YL did the homework again, twice, before the head accepted it, even though YL wasn't really sorry.<br /><br />The head made YL pin the homework on his classroom wall."DBChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12037903987926646446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092552783161885712.post-10246584933012779962009-10-09T13:17:40.833+01:002009-10-09T13:17:40.833+01:00The apology is still a piece of shit, although I&#...The apology is still a piece of shit, although I'm glad the 'overwhelming majority' bit made it and that the suggestion it was 'inadvertent' was removed. My main problem with it is that he apologises to "any Balkan gangster, or local blagger come to that", which completely fails to recognise the actual people that he smeared; the majority of innocent Eastern Europeans.No Sleep 'Til Brooklandshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03326756018822759152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092552783161885712.post-42411652538753706662009-10-09T10:48:01.515+01:002009-10-09T10:48:01.515+01:00I see that this comment :-
"No, Richard, you ...I see that this comment :-<br />"No, Richard, you weren't making a jolly joke about Eastern European criminals, you were quite deliberately trying to foster the stereotype that all foreigners and immigrants are criminals. I'm so glad you've been made to apologise."<br /><br /> has been given 89 red arrows by the dickheads who make up the majority of his readers.DBChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12037903987926646446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092552783161885712.post-90951709912639843242009-10-09T10:22:12.073+01:002009-10-09T10:22:12.073+01:00Excellent. Well done to the reader for their pers...Excellent. Well done to the reader for their persistence. I would have been pessimistic about the paper changing the apology, but top marks for getting it to.<br /><br />Maybe this is a lesson for anyone else who complains to the PCC.Five Chinese Crackershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09395982651352498540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092552783161885712.post-64738362893553891242009-10-09T09:17:53.304+01:002009-10-09T09:17:53.304+01:00"We do regret that this process has taken lon...<i>"We do regret that this process has taken longer than we would have liked but the combined circumstances of the holiday period, postal strikes and a ..."</i><br /><br />Postal strikes? Wasn't this done by email?PHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12442781568629782535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092552783161885712.post-85639910865708818962009-10-09T00:03:17.563+01:002009-10-09T00:03:17.563+01:00Hopefully Little Johnny will get his arse bitten b...Hopefully Little Johnny will get his arse bitten by rabid mosquitos while sipping cocktails outside his mansion in Florida.claudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11498799178450479883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092552783161885712.post-5571144171080199502009-10-08T23:11:01.478+01:002009-10-08T23:11:01.478+01:00Brilliant work. What a complete arse Littlejohn is...Brilliant work. What a complete arse Littlejohn is. Top marks to the reader who complained for persistancy.Uponnothinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09159910203740061052noreply@blogger.com