> Le 17 avr. 08 =E0 10:26, Rob MacKillop a ecrit :
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> Just a thought - maybe he is one of us....? The Phantom Lurker?
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> I was going to write to him and the guy who wrote the article, but
> thought
> better of it. We reap what we sow. It's not the first time I've had
> quotation remarks around comments I never made. Seems to be the way
> reporters work. Nothing to be gained by picking a fight. Oh dear...I'm
> getting old!
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> Rob
Rob,
When I was 9 years old I learnt that, and have had misgivings
about reporters and newspapers, ever since.
I was rescued from the top of the cliff near the Bristol suspension
bridge, on a day when there was little or no international news.
I had climbed up with a friend, who actually managed to get to the
top, just near the nose of Concorde, on this photo.
www.clifton-suspension-bridge.org.uk/images/concorde.jpg
When I arrived home, I was greeted by a rag of reporters. They all
asked, were we playing at Hillary and Tensing? It was the year of the
Everest ascent, or there abouts, you see.
I declared that we weren't, it hadn't even come into our heads. Sure
enough, it was there the next day, in the headlines of the local
papers, the two lads had declared they
were Hillary and Tensing. It even spread to the nationals, all be it
on back page.
This is not lute related, but does explain why on retirement, while
other members of my family took up cliff climbing, I went back to
Lute playing.
Seems safer, although, I did read that strange historical
'whodunnit', with Chaucer as "the finder", where the body turns out
to have been strangled with
a lute string (He didn't say whether it had been loaded).
During May 68, in Paris, I was interviewed by a Sunday Times
reporter, and while all the events I mentioned were reported
correctly enough, each one was told as though it had happened to the
same individual.
The effect was more dramatic, you see, and I realized again that
journalism is just about spinning a good yarn, selling a good story
or image.
Ooooh, I have remembered, the last time I mentioned lawyers, all the
lutists on our list turned out to be barristers, I mentioned bows and
lutes, and everyone was an archer, gun-buts and lutes and up popped a
few lute playing gun-smiths. How many reporter-lutists do we have
lurking on our list?
Well I really do enjoy a goof yarn, so I really don't have anything
against journalists, I do assure you.
Anthony
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