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Rod Liddle
Posted by Leedsboy on 6 April 2009 - 7:55pm.
Dig the Rod Liddle letter in the new mag - he's a good sport isn't he? Although surely Hepworth and Ellen would have been a "pair of" and not a "bunch of" in order to have been grammatically correct?
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Oh dear
A nerve appears to have been struck, And he's such a lovely guy. No, sorry, I'm thinking of someone else. My bad.
He must be feeling sensitive...
Charlie Brooker called him a cnut on "Newswipe" for his article on Jade Goody.
Hepworth and Ellen
have made NOTHING out of nothing?
The Word? Empire? Heat? Q? Smash Hits? Just Seventeen?
You forgot
Ukulele Daily that became Banjo Gazette
Brooker calling Liddle a C-nut is my favourite TV moment of the year so far. I'm thinking of making it my ringtone
As fantastic as...
...most of Newswipe has been, I think Charlie excelled hmself on that particular article.
Oh how I wish I could write like Charlton Brooker.
More reasons for doubting Mr Liddle and his opinions
Particularly well made response to Mr Liddle's ill informed and downright nasty article on Leeds United post The Damned United. He appears to not be able to tell fictional stories from facts. Still, I suppose that's newspaper journalism for you.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/letters/article6036302.ece
Thanks chaps
For pointing me towards Brooker's program, which I've just watched on YouTube.
So, in summary: Brooker is great, Liddle is a talentless cnut of the highest order.
Or can we stop being coy and call him a cunt? (apologies if that's too strong, Fraser. Although it has the benefit of being true)
Well
its a word I read in the magazine this month. Albeit from the potty mouth of Mr Liddle.
for me Rod liddle
seems a Less intelligent Jeremy Clarkson
Never be fooled
into thinking these professional loudmouths are stupid. Liddle certainly isn't. He is an intelligent man who has CHOSEN the dark path of deliberately moronic professional opining - which is considerably worse than merely being a moron.
He was terrible...
on the revamped Call My Bluff. What was going on in the minds of TV executives when they replaced the late and much lamented Alan Coren with him? He's one of those guys who seem to get work despite having no actual talent.
To be fair...
he was VERY good as editor of Today - and won awards to prove it.
Doesn't mean he can do anything other than edit a radio programme though. Maybe he should have stuck with what he was good at.
Good point
Although goes to show the best editors are not the best writes always - notable exceptions like Harold Evans and, of course, The Mighty Hep aside. I have to say his writing for someone who seems to present himself as being "in the know" is often comically ill-informed and unappetisingly over-cooked. That applies equally to the stuff he writes on politics or the guff he writes on footie. He may be a jolly decent cove for all I know but the persona that emanates from the page is an unattractive one. I'm sure he'd like to be seen as some sort of cross between Merton, Clarkson, Gill and Self. Instead, he comes across as an *unlikeable* Piers Morgan. Which is an achievement of sorts.
I'm Confused !
You mention an "unlikeable" Piers Morgan......any there really any other sort ?? A tautology surely ??
Good as he might be at stuff
it doesn't change the fact that he's actually a tit.
I quite like him ....
Haven't seen the letter yet, but always find his column in the Speccie thought provoking and his two columns in the Sunday Times entertaining.
Agree he is terrible on the screen and particularly awful on Call my Bluff.
Yes I probably do need to get out more .
You won't like him
after you read this letter. I'd put money on it!
Dear me what was he
Dear me what was he thinking??
Here's a clip...
of Eamonn Dunphy having a go at Liddle over comments about Roy Keane. What Liddle's personal life has to do with anything I don't know, but Eamonn is raging at this point so he brings it up. He later apologised to Liddle. Start watching from 09:12, but the whole clip is great!
Liddle had a bit of a high-profile split
with his partner a couple of years back. Wikipedia reports it as follows:
"Liddle married his long-term girlfriend and HTV reporter, Rachel Royce, in March 2004 in Malaysia. They had been living in Heytesbury, Wiltshire, and had two sons together, Tyler and Wilder. Six months later, Liddle moved in with Alicia Monckton, a twenty-two year old receptionist at The Spectator magazine whom he started seeing shortly before his wedding; his wife divorced him, It transpired that he had cut his honeymoon short so that he could be with Monkton
On 5 May 2005, Liddle was arrested for common assault against his then pregnant girlfriend Alicia Monckton. He was held under domestic violence guidelines which allow police to question suspects without cooperation from victims. He later was given and accepted a police caution for the offence. Liddle was reported as having claimed to have accepted the caution as it was the quickest way for him to be released, stating that he "never touched Ms. Monckton""
Sounds like a throughly nice chap
Oh I did enjoy that letter
The dignity it showed seemed typical of the man.
what's more
he had the temerity to take The Dan's name in vain!
Surely the correct
collective noun is a "shower of..."? Although I'm not sure that two people constitutes a shower.
You picked the wrong tagline....
...for his letter. In my view, "A Sunday Times Journalist Writes" would have spoken volumes about Britain today.
Oh arse
If his wikipedia article is to be believed, he is a "famous" denzien of Middlesbrough (of which Nunthorpe is a suburb). As someone born in the Boro I'm frankly embarrassed for my home town, though feel slighly relieved that I don't live there now (but only for that reason).
I have made my views on Mr Liddle's correspondence known to the editors and hope my missive will see the light of day at some juncture.
just to show my ignorance...
...and I am UK based so don't have the excuse of some of our further flung fellows but who IS Rod Liddle? I've genuinely never heard of him. (Good work printing the letter though)
The Lidster
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Liddle tells you the facts.
He spent a long time as editor of 'Today', the prime, serious, breakfast time news show then left under a cloud around the time of the Iraq War.
Since then he's tried to develop a reputation for being something of an iconoclast.
He's definitely developed a reputation
I'll look up iconoclast but I suspect his developed reputation is as something else.