On 11/03/2014 10:44, Mizter T wrote:

On 11/03/2014 10:22, Paul Corfield wrote:
Interesting to listen to a decent set of comments from the BBC's
Norman Smith about Bob Crow. He recognised that Mr Crow was a shrewd
political operator and good in dealing with the media. I can't recall
when I heard anyone give a decent overview of the man rather than just
portray him as a villain.
[My comments snipped]

Mr Crow's appearance on the Sunday Politics a few weeks ago was great
fun with him offering to take over from Andrew Neil - provided he got
Mr Neil's money for doing so.

I dread to think what the "rent a gobs" in the comments section in the
Daily Mail and Evening Standard will make of the news.

Comments sections of newspaper websites are best avoided - for all the
egalitarian notions of new technologies giving readers a voice, the
shrill and vile nonsense that seems to all too easily flow doesn't
really do much for one's view of human nature.

I realise on re-reading this that when you said "comments section" of
newspapers of course you meant just that, the section of the paper with
columnists and talking heads, as opposed to my interpretation of readers
(often completely inane or just plain nasty) comments at the bottom of
the webpage.