Charles on… anything that comes along

Ed Bott runs a great blog (of which I’m apparently one of just 13 people who read it using NetNewsWire). And here is his tale of how he began watching the BBC TV coverage of July 7th, switched over to CNN, and pretty rapidly switched back.

What’s jaw-dropping though is the comments apparently made by some of the anchors for the other news channels, such as Fox’s John Gibson saying

This is why I thought the Brits should let the French have the Olympics (search) — let somebody else be worried about guys with backpack bombs for a while.

Gibson apparently reckons that

It would have been a three-week period where we wouldn’t have had to worry about terrorism.

First, the French think they are so good at dealing with the Arab world that they would have gone out and paid every terrorist off. And things would have been calm.

Or another way to look at it is the French are already up to their eyeballs in terrorists. The French hide them in miserable slums, out of sight of the rich people in Paris.

So it would have been a treat, actually, to watch the French dealing with the problem of their own homegrown Islamist terrorists living in France already.

It would have been a delight to have Parisians worried about security instead of New Yorkers. It would have been exquisite to watch.

I really don’t think he should visit London any time soon, at least not if his photograph is circulated. Somewhere, a village is really missing its idiot.

Read the lot. Bott has closed comments, but I hope this trackback reaches him…

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..it’s just how it happens to get applied.

1: Steve Jobs calls father of child killed for his iPod. (New York Times.)

2: Tad Grglewiecz, civil engineer from Cricklewood, was one of the passengers on the No.30 bus whose roof was ripped off by the fourth of the July 7th explosion. “Doctors told him his hearing was saved by his iPod earphones.” (The Independent.)

Note that the object here doesn’t have to be an iPod. It could have been (would have been, in days gone by) a cassette Walkman, or a CD Walkman. It’s like one person being killed for the locket around their neck, and another having a bullet deflected by one.

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Today’s intriguing email comes from Colour Confidence (though why they’re emailing me, I dunno):

PR Arrangements at Colour Confidence

I would like to update you on our new arrangements for PR.
As you may be aware, our previous PR agency withdrew from the PR marketplace to concentrate on their core activities.

I’m intrigued as you wouldn’t believe to know quite what those “core activities” were. Did they just find that they enjoyed the ‘going to the office’ bit more than the ‘talking to clients’ or ‘talking to journalists’ bit? Or the ‘holding internal meetings’ and ’staff performance evaluation’ stuff was just so much fun than the dreary business of writing press releases? Not to mention the lunches and parties, of course.

… oh hang on, a quick search of my email shows that the previous PR company was biworldwide.com (locations: “New York, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Milton Keynes”). Ah well, I guess Prince can get the benefits of their core competencies.

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