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Melanie Phillips is a professional journalist, commentator and author.
Are you a professional analyst of journalism? :hmm:
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Shes denounced far too many people for apparent misdemeaners, only to retract when faced with legal action, to be taken seriously.
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Can you document this?
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Her main problem seems to be a tendency to take a blog entry, email or even word of mouth as proof positive and run with it.
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Didn't someone once call her Britains answer to Ann Coultar?
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The closest correlation I could find documented between the 2 is on this page of the Muslim Public Affairs Commitee - MPACUK. Thanks for the tip.  |
Maybe it was MPACUK that said it. I don't see why their opinion is any less relevant then yours and mine
And yes to your further question. (Actually I can speak from personal experence)
http://www.melaniephillips.com/diary/?m=200504&paged=2
The part where names are mentioned has actually since been removed because Legal Action was threatened. But it does include in the entry called "Running the Campus Gauntlet", the following
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‘Our “Guild of Students” (for some reason we don’t have a union) ha
been filled with rabid Amnesty International types. I find the ideal
that Amnesty was set up with admirable. However, it seems to have been hijacked by those that oppose the state of Israel. There have been a rash of frankly laughable and ridiculous activities to show support for the oppressed Palestinian victims; we have had a “Stop the Wall” evening, conducted with university approval. This evening featured collections for some rather dubious charities, and interpretive dance and drama to “show solidarity and resistance”.
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Well the only guild official from the time who was active in Amnesty International was me.
And I wasn't even at the event that evening, heck I wasn't even in Europe at the time. Melenie Philips is actually accusing myself and others of partaking in an "Anti Jewish Witch hunt" (thats anti-semitism I believe) on the basis of a letter she recieved from one person. No one at the University or Guild was contacted to confirm the events had actually taken place, nor were we informed the article had actually taken place
The University threatened a lawsuit, the guild threatened a lawsuit, and I and ten other people eventually got written apologies from Miss Philips and our names removed from the website.
Now that is what I call sloppy journalism.
06-18-07, 07:09 PM
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