Re: Barry George story
Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 8:23 pm
Burley irritates the living piss out of me...I usually go and watch another news channel if she's on. Lucy Verasamy, on the other hand, I could watch all day long.
As for Barry George, people are overlooking a number of things: just because the case and subsequent conviction were ruled to be unsound doesn't mean he didn't do it, it just means that the Police fucked the case up. It's not the first time, and it won't be the last. We shouldn't forget that Barry George also has previous form...he's no saint. That doesn't mean he did do it either, just that the conviction was unsound.
Personally, I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him, and I think it would have been smarter to send a male reporter. One of two things would have had to have happened to get a female reporter in there as first choice 1) she demanded the interview, which is most likely as Burley gives the impression of someone who believes the sun literally does shine out of her arse, or as swampthing so eloquently put it, she's a smug cunt or 2) the producers deliberately chose a female because they thought George would be more open/vulnerable with her, given his previous predilection for TV personalities. Either way, with 20/20 hindsight, it's looking to be a pretty bad decision whichever way it came into being.
As for Barry George, people are overlooking a number of things: just because the case and subsequent conviction were ruled to be unsound doesn't mean he didn't do it, it just means that the Police fucked the case up. It's not the first time, and it won't be the last. We shouldn't forget that Barry George also has previous form...he's no saint. That doesn't mean he did do it either, just that the conviction was unsound.
Personally, I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him, and I think it would have been smarter to send a male reporter. One of two things would have had to have happened to get a female reporter in there as first choice 1) she demanded the interview, which is most likely as Burley gives the impression of someone who believes the sun literally does shine out of her arse, or as swampthing so eloquently put it, she's a smug cunt or 2) the producers deliberately chose a female because they thought George would be more open/vulnerable with her, given his previous predilection for TV personalities. Either way, with 20/20 hindsight, it's looking to be a pretty bad decision whichever way it came into being.