Comments for Deepsouth Media http://deepsouthmedia.co.uk/blog Deep South Media blog Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:38:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 Comment on Named and shamed by Sue Langley http://deepsouthmedia.co.uk/blog/articles/named-and-shamed/#comment-379 Sue Langley Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:38:52 +0000 http://deepsouthmedia.co.uk/blog/?p=129#comment-379 I agree with you. It was a potentially dangerous thing to do but as the child was 16 and 16 year olds are easily lead and vunerable I think it was harsh to name and shame. i think the Government got scared and realised they were losing control and usded this boy as an example to frighten other potential messangers and children. Sue :-S I agree with you.

It was a potentially dangerous thing to do but as the child was 16 and 16 year olds are easily lead and vunerable I think it was harsh to name and shame.

i think the Government got scared and realised they were losing control and usded this boy as an example to frighten other potential messangers and children.

Sue :-S

]]> Comment on Looters make everyone look flat-footed by Ade Oduyemi http://deepsouthmedia.co.uk/blog/articles/looters-make-everyone-look-flat-footed/#comment-284 Ade Oduyemi Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:46:15 +0000 http://deepsouthmedia.co.uk/blog/?p=117#comment-284 I am so enamoured of one phrase in this write up - 'once in a lifetime event'. And I hope for all our sakes that the optimism of inherent in the phrase would not turn out to be borne of foolishness - that way we can all take a deep breath and put such undemocratic notions as 'turning off social media networks' 'sending in the army to confront looters' back in the box where the belong - I mean, what next 'lock up journalists because the write unflattering stories'? To let such sentiment out of that box would be to lead us away from the path of liberal democracy which if we know it or not, we are at the vanguard. I am so enamoured of one phrase in this write up – ‘once in a lifetime event’. And I hope for all our sakes that the optimism of inherent in the phrase would not turn out to be borne of foolishness – that way we can all take a deep breath and put such undemocratic notions as ‘turning off social media networks’ ‘sending in the army to confront looters’ back in the box where the belong – I mean, what next ‘lock up journalists because the write unflattering stories’? To let such sentiment out of that box would be to lead us away from the path of liberal democracy which if we know it or not, we are at the vanguard.

]]> Comment on A sackable offence by Graham Morton http://deepsouthmedia.co.uk/blog/articles/a-sackable-offence/#comment-91 Graham Morton Sun, 29 May 2011 22:10:05 +0000 http://deepsouthmedia.co.uk/blog/?p=80#comment-91 I agree very much with your post and with Stephen Clifton's comment. I expect more intelligent - much more intelligent - interviewing on the Today programme. John Humphrys has (in my view) done many excellent and courageous interviews in his time - around, for example, the invasion of Iraq. But in this instance Humphrys appeared to me to be aping Victoria Derbyshire (from what I heard of her Radio 5 interview of Ken Clarke on rape issues) and the lynch mob mentality of the populist press. If this is the best he can do, Humphrys would be better suited to doing a column for the Daily Mail or working for the Murdoch media. I agree very much with your post and with Stephen Clifton’s comment. I expect more intelligent – much more intelligent – interviewing on the Today programme. John Humphrys has (in my view) done many excellent and courageous interviews in his time – around, for example, the invasion of Iraq. But in this instance Humphrys appeared to me to be aping Victoria Derbyshire (from what I heard of her Radio 5 interview of Ken Clarke on rape issues) and the lynch mob mentality of the populist press. If this is the best he can do, Humphrys would be better suited to doing a column for the Daily Mail or working for the Murdoch media.

]]> Comment on A sackable offence by Stephen Clifton http://deepsouthmedia.co.uk/blog/articles/a-sackable-offence/#comment-90 Stephen Clifton Sat, 28 May 2011 23:55:24 +0000 http://deepsouthmedia.co.uk/blog/?p=80#comment-90 I have just "Googled" "Humphreys/Shoesmith" and found, with some relief, your comments regarding the Baby "P" case. I have already e-mailed Feedback/Radio 4 letting them know my feelings about the way Humphreys handled the interview with Ms Shoesmith. It was very poor and at the level of a low-brow tabloid newspaper. For employees who confront the worst aspects of human behaviour every day (trying to protect children) it must be soul destroying to know that any error will be magnified out of all proportion in the clamour to drag them to Tyburn. Please let us return to at least some degree of humanity in the management of Social Workers, the tragedy of child abuse is bad enough. I have just “Googled” “Humphreys/Shoesmith” and found, with some relief, your comments regarding the Baby “P” case. I have already e-mailed Feedback/Radio 4 letting them know my feelings about the way Humphreys handled the interview with Ms Shoesmith. It was very poor and at the level of a low-brow tabloid newspaper. For employees who confront the worst aspects of human behaviour every day (trying to protect children) it must be soul destroying to know that any error will be magnified out of all proportion in the clamour to drag them to Tyburn. Please let us return to at least some degree of humanity in the management of Social Workers, the tragedy of child abuse is bad enough.

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