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There are no errors in the tabloid world he inhabits. Just increasing invasion of people’s privacy and a growing disregard for any kind of moral principles. That is what RM’s empire is founded on. As we now know.
Don’t know what world you love in Connor but if my little girl was killed like that and some prat from Sky decided to rummage thru her belongings before family I’d murder the thick. Should be sacked on the spot. Ron Atkinson and Rodney Marsh lost jobs for less.
@Andrew What are you rambling about? Did you even read the article?Ron Atkinson racially abused someone on live TV. Rodney Marsh took the piss out of 250,000 dead tsunami victims on live TV. While Braziers’ actions were stupid, it was a rush of blood to the head and it is quite clear he deeply regrets it. Get over yourself.
I did read the article. What he is saying has nothing to do with Sky News ‘values’ (though I am not sure that is the right word, but anyway).
What is more interesting, and he doesn’t address the issue, is that what he did was consistent with Sky News’ approach to the creation and development of ‘stories.’ His action reflects an agenda and attitude to situations that would be familiar to any Sky News viewers (and I do watch it myself). This approach ,as we saw with tabloid newspapers, is becoming standard media practice.
However, if you want to watch reporters rifling through personal belongings at crash sites at least you have the consolation that you won’t be left wanting in that regard
I’m assuming you’ve no kids or if you have you need to prioritise them more. I’m with the Dutch bloke who wrote to killers, would put me kids before anything, and definitely a slip of the tongue about blacks by a football commentator. Insensitive yes, human error don’t think so. Shouldn’t have even been amongst the evidence.
@Andrew Hickey I’m with the Dutch bloke, too. His kid was killed in the crash. How is that even remotely relevant to the waffle you’re spouting though? Stop looking for an argument that isn’t even here.
Ok Conor. Sorry about that. Colin Brazier obviously should be rummaging thru someone’s daughters belongings, right after she’s been blown out of the sky. That’s his place.
I’ll move on now, and get over meself and spout something somewhere else and please god I’ll get a few green thumbs.
Everybody makes mistakes but credit to him, he knew he was overstepping the journalistic line of right and wrong and immediately acknowledged it. Twitter trolls will be twitter trolls however….
Yeah I thought even standing among the luggage on live TV was a bit much to begin with though. Imagine recognising your child’s suitcase of belongings, fecking hell.
I give this guy the benefit of the doubt. He seems like a decent enough fella from what I’ve seen of him over the last couple of years – poor judgement for sure but doesn’t deserve all this bad press. As for Kay Burley running around Schiphol after bereaved families and harassing the Dutch PM in Utrecht yesterday – absolutely reprehensible.
I stopped watching Sky News years ago because of Kay Burleys crass interviewing style when dealing with sensitive topics. I can’t stand the women, she is full of her own self importance but Colin Brazier is top notch Journalist who to my recollection, doesn’t cross the line when reporting a story. It was an error of judgement and he’s apologized it’s time to move on.
It was a rather stupid mistake he made, for sure. But it’s fairly clear that what he’s explained is true.
He clearly realised what he did was wrong as soon as it happened and he’s apologised. I think that’s fair.
Most of the reaction seems to be rather vacant of fact – Boo bad SKY News reporter was rummaging though crash victim’s luggage. That’s clearly not the extent of what happened. People need to calm down.
He was clearly in a state of shock and not thinking right. You can hear that in his voice…. it was by no means malicious, I think he was merely overcome with emotion. We cannot judge unless we are in his position, which in all honesty must have been hell…. we are seeing this in pics and tv etc…he is standing there with innocent human remains all around. How could any of us think straight in that situation.
It must be very hard to report a story as tragic from the actual site, so give the man a break. He made a mistake, and u can clearly see he realised he did as soon as he did it. The video is very hard to watch, let alone being at the site and seeing more than just strewn luggage..
Colin is an outstanding broadcaster and he can be forgiven by all for this instinctive act given the emotional state he must have been in the presence of such horror.
Frank, what are you saying? I’ve read the article and watched the clips. Are you trying to say as they are in the clips that it’s a hoax. This didn’t really happen? It’s a set up to try force a war with Russia? Some passports in good condition have turned up. That’s all it takes for you to claim a hoax? What about the hundreds of families, the hundreds of people we have seen in Amsterdam airport in deep shock and mourning, all these people are in on the hoax too are they? They didn’t really lose loved ones?
“You are obviously not going to find anything about this from reading the Sun or the Daily Mail….”
Says the man who provided a link to the Mail last week, as it backed up some ridiculous claim of his…..whenever it suits Frank, whenever it suits. You’re consistently inconsistent, that’s for sure!
Jesus, Frank. You’re right. You’ve just blown all of our minds. Thanks to your painstaking research and copy & paste skills you’ve really helped us to see that the truth was in fact out there all this time.
1. Pristine passports, meh I don’t really think you have a basis for saying that they should be damaged etc.
2. Carrying expired passports is a relatively common practice, for a number of reasons such as going somewhere abroad and not wanting to have to carry your actual passport if you’re “carded”, having a valid visa stamped into the expired passport (which would still be valid) or alternatively, just keeping them all in the same bag out of habit.
You’re (as usual) presenting zero evidence, yet putting your own unique spin on things and attempting and failing to sell it as fact.
Some people could have just renewed their passports and some have outdated passports because they might have had a valid visa in an expired passport. Your false flag theories are fast becoming boring and making you a laughing stock. But I suspect you are used it that.
Yes, Frank, I can. As I have done on previous threads over the past few days. But when you come up against a valid explanation that doesn’t fit with your version of events, you ignore it and skip along.
The plane came apart in the air. The huge burn area is where the engines and fuel tanks landed. There are many other locations across a 10k area with parts and contents of the plane that fell without burning, including passports and luggage. How is that so hard to grasp?
People are very protective of their passports (they often only use or handle them when they travel). They keep them safely with travel docs and the like, sometimes in folders, or in hand baggage. These passports were gathered up (illegally) from the ground or from the personal belongings of passengers by those looting and interfering with the crash site. If you travelled enough, Frank, you would actually know that for protective reasons people don’t destroy their out of date passport, and sometimes still carry them along with a newly issued one in a personal travel pouch. Yeh, pretty weird, but there you go, Frank. I’ve witnessed this at many airports.
Countries are also moving away from passport visa stamps (vista stamps mentioned in your linked article), instead choosing to issue paper or electronic visas, especially for European citizens.The vast majority of passengers on MH17 were holiday makers, maybe travelling once or twice a year.
Ahh yes the usual cleverly conceived false flag operation except for this apparently blindingly obvious thing they forgot spotted by the tin foil hatters.
Man the guy in the NWO who ordered the fake expired passports is so getting the sack.
As for predicting the false flag, faked deaths etc, given the conspiracy world predicts these every second week it wouldn’t be very hard to find a recent one.
See how many false flag predictions Alex Jones fits in these 45 failed predictions http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxt_bEDdTTc
In relation to that story, in order to avoid Ukrainian airspace,Malaysian Airways flight MH4 flew over Syria! They must be going for a hat trick!? The ‘rebels’ fighting Assad already have anti-aircraft missiles supllied by Washington. Of course Sky,BBC etc wont report this because they dont want to bring attention to the hypocracy and double standards from Washington supplying the rebels with these weapons. You seriously could not make this up! http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/07/22/malaysia-airlines-plane-diverts-ukraine-syria
He quite obviously sees the flask and stops short before picking it up, so he’s not lying. He made a genuine mistake. many of us having seen the same and associating with our own would have done the same. He was probably in utter shock of seeing it and wasn’t thinking anything but a small girl like his own child owned that flask. I’m sure he feels bad enough already
He “had lost it”?? I can’t hear that either. He sounds perfectly coherent to me. There is no way that was an “error”, his pink flask is like the red coat in Schindler’s List.
Did all those erporters rummaging around at the scene of the crash really give us an insight into anything? Or is it just rubbernecking? It doesn’t took much imagination to guess what the horrific scene was like so was the arrival of reporters there to describe it not just some sort of ghoulish entertainment before the circus moves on?
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