Jon Snow Has ‘No Contact With Ordinary Human Feeling’
JON Snow has in an instant shown what is wrong with the self-aggrandizing media elite:
Using the oldest and falsest royal chestnut, he accused the editors who had made the agreement of seeking knighthoods. He must know that, except for a few restricted orders in the Queen’s personal gift, honours come from a system controlled by the Prime Minister.
Then Snow claimed to be horrified that so much fuss was being made to do a special favour to “so small a thing as a prince”. What other free country would connive at such a cover-up, he wondered?
Why, he jeered, did Prince Harry have to be a soldier anyway? “He could do banking.” Were the press so servile, asked Snow, with an absurdity of bad taste, that “if he gets injured or shot dead, the papers wouldn’t report that”?
The three people on the show – the editor who had brokered the deal, a Tory MP and a man who had served recently in the Army – looked at Snow almost with incomprehension.
It was one of those moments when one realised that some media people have no contact with ordinary human feeling. Prince Harry was not being given a privilege. His situation was unique.
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Posted: 2nd, March 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Overheard On The TV And Radio, Prince Harry, Royal Family, War On Terror Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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March 14th, 2008 at 10:27 am
May I respectfully suggest a item Jon might use on his program.
> It involves the common thread of media personalities who manage to
> wangle jobs in the media for their children.
> I think Jon would be ideally suited to attack this phenomenon
> otherwise known as nepotism.
> I tried to get my own son son a job on TYCO as a trainee electrician
> and was told it breached company guidlines.
> My boss at the time was that paragon of probity L.Denis
> Koslowski currently doing 8 to 25 in a US penitentiary for fraud.
> Anyway my own personal knockback set me thinking as I watched the
> great and the good who preach to me on TV about the morals of others
> and their own behaviour.
> The title of the program could be HYPOCISY IN PUBLIC LIFE or somesuch
> and Jon would be my ideal celeb to front it.
> How about it Channel 4?
>
> Frank
March 3rd, 2008 at 8:26 am
zonk
Since when was it a privilege to avoid being written about in the media? If they were treating him like an ordinary soldier - they’d print nothing about it.
I don’t like wars and I don’t think there’s any need for a Royal Family (beyond entertainment) but credit where it’s due - he was doing his job.
March 2nd, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Of course he was given a privliege. His situation was unique. Pure PR for the army and Royal Family to make them relevance, and allow Charles ‘to identify’ with familes of those who serve.
Sickening state of affairs. 3 SAS close protection officers. What a load of rubbish.