tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post7991804961291688118..comments2023-10-21T11:46:32.529+01:00Comments on Madame Arcati: The Observer - news editor helped sex up Iraq dossier?Madame Arcatihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04823823014493798116noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-76671191821808308152007-10-22T23:26:00.000+01:002007-10-22T23:26:00.000+01:00Roger can't write for toffee and gives the impress...Roger can't write for toffee and gives the impression that he's half Roger Mellie and half Tim nice-but-dim, but he Gets Things Done and gets people to Get Things Done.Usually very well. Write him off at your peril.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-73299254864783022652007-10-22T19:13:00.000+01:002007-10-22T19:13:00.000+01:00....Only bettered by features' forward planning me.......Only bettered by features' forward planning meetings where my favourite writer once excused himself from offering next to nothing with the line: "They're all on the back burner".<BR/><BR/>When an alternative was suggested he replied: "I'm afraid that one is nailed to the starting blocks."<BR/><BR/>This went on for years and he made an excellent living out of it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-38157599869390641552007-10-22T12:34:00.000+01:002007-10-22T12:34:00.000+01:00I soooooooo agree Liz. At the Sunday Times the ear...I soooooooo agree Liz. At the Sunday Times the early news list is called the wish list. Stories angles are created to suit the editor and his puppeteer, Murdoch - eg the Euro referundum poll campaign - something that obsesses the old bastard and his ginger minger at the Sun but no one else.Madame Arcatihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04823823014493798116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-38462930432991302862007-10-22T10:52:00.000+01:002007-10-22T10:52:00.000+01:00The best bit is how Campbell would allegedly be re...The best bit is how Campbell would allegedly be read the paper's newslist ahead of publication.<BR/><BR/>Newslists are the biggest work of fiction since Shakespeare.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com