[BITList] Trans. : Get It Right

[fredmno at aol.com]

 Salaams,
             cynical bastard that I am I honestly thought my email to 'The Week' had been consigned to the dustbin, after all most people today couldn't give a monkeys derriere re their fellow human beings, I confess that I wasn't overly upset about the photo having been taken in France but did wonder at the intelligence of the pratt that wrote that the other three remains had been dumped in a shell hole and promptly forgotten, then again as the media seem all set to wind everyone up with as depressing news that they can muster par for the course. I will of course respond thanking them for their reply but at the same time asking if they could do an article on my BRITISH hero, Gordon Brown no less, after all does anyone remember anyone in our whole history as a nation achieving such a notable first in devaluing the pound, as I write one pound equals one euro and five cents, has it dropped by as much before, even during both world wars, I await enlightenment.

                                                    BR Fred

PS The horses and cats are now being looked at in a different light, just as well that I'm not French, they would have been jointed and in the freezer by now!!!!!!!!!!!!! 


 


 

-----E-mail d'origine-----
De : Alanna O'Connell <alanna_o'connell at dennis.co.uk>
A : fredmno at aol.com
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yé le : Jeudi, 18 Décembre 2008 16:22
Sujet : Re: Get It Right














Dear Mr Waddinton



Thank you for your email regarding the Last Word piece in the 15 November issue.  Please accept my apologies for the delay in my reply, I have been absent from the office on leave.



As you correctly point out, the picture does show the coffin in France rather than in London, as our caption misleadingly says: the error is entirely ours and we apologise unreservedly.  I have spoken with our picture editor and sub-editor about this error and we shall endeavour to ensure that such an error shall not occur in the future.



As to the errors in the article; the article was bought in good faith from The Sunday Telegraph.  Normally we would expect The Telegraph to inform us if they had themselves heard of any such inaccuracies, but we shall pass your comments on to their journalist.



Kind regards,



Jeremy O’Grady

Editor-in-chief



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On 2/12/08 10:05, "fredmno at aol.com" <fredmno at aol.com> wrote:




Dear Sir,

            re your issue of the up and till now excellent magazine 'The Week', issue 691 dated 15th November 2008. Having read the final article, page 50/51 titled 'The=2
0unknown soldier: how a corpse became the focus of a nations grief' I will now view your magazine with all the skepticism it rightly deserves. The first error is leading the British public to believe that the photo shown portrays the escorted limber in London with a guard of honour, may I point out that the soldiers shown are in fact French and are in fact in France prior to the embarkation of the coffin. The second and most erroneous error in the article is in fact deliberately left till last and written to mislead, as in fact is most news read or listened too these days. You state that the three remaining soldiers bodies were loaded on to the back of a truck, tipped into a shell hole beside the road to Albert and promptly forgotten, as you well know thi! s in fact is not the case. The remaining three unselected soldiers' bodies were reburied in the military cemetery at St. Pol with full military honours. What I find difficult to believe is that such a presigeous magazine as yours should stoop to the level of today's tabloid press.

                              Sincerely 

                                  Fred Waddington

                               =C
2      France








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