Brooks' resignation statement howler

[Riley Blue]

Her resignation statement contains the following sentence:

"This is now detracting attention from all our honest endeavours to fix the problems of the past."

Surely what she meant was either "This is now diverting attention from....." or "This is now detracting from...."

Can I have her job please Mr Murdoch?

[Ozzie Osmond]

"distracting"

[Riley Blue]

Or that.

You'd hope a highly paid (ex)journalist would be able to string a sentence together, wouldn't you?

[Digga]

Riley Blue said:

You'd hope a highly paid (ex)journalist would be able to string a sentence together, wouldn't you?

You're kidding, right?

And anyway, whatever her strong suits were, they weren't neccessarily journalism.

[singlecoil]

Best looking newspaper editor that I've seen so for.


Presumably the resignation has been carefully negotiated with the powers that be at NI. Golden parachute, I expect.

[Derek Smith]

Riley Blue said:

Her resignation statement contains the following sentence:

"This is now detracting attention from all our honest endeavours to fix the problems of the past."

Surely what she meant was either "This is now diverting attention from....." or "This is now detracting from...."

Can I have her job please Mr Murdoch?

You are assuming she wrote it. I would suggest otherwise. Lawyers would have had a hand in it. This is a corporate and not a personal act.

[DonkeyApple]

What has English got to do with a tabloid.

In case you forgot 'it's the Sun what won it.'

[MikeyT]

DonkeyApple said:

What has English got to do with a tabloid.

In case you forgot 'it's the Sun what won it.'

WOT, please.

She was never a trained journalist - she started at Nwes International as a secretary. So maybe she was a trained secretary.

That tosser Piers Morgan *saw her talents* - I wonder what they were?

[Jasandjules]

Why is she allowed to resign and isn't sat in jail right now awaiting trial?

[Riley Blue]

Digga said:

Riley Blue said:

You'd hope a highly paid (ex)journalist would be able to string a sentence together, wouldn't you?

You're kidding, right?

And anyway, whatever her strong suits were, they weren't neccessarily journalism.

Nor managing those who worked for her it seems.

[voyds9]

singlecoil said:

Best looking newspaper editor that I've seen so for.


Presumably the resignation has been carefully negotiated with the powers that be at NI. Golden parachute, I expect.

Just google imaged her and to be honest she looks like a ginger psycho

[Mermaid]

voyds9 said:

Just google imaged her and to be honest she looks like a ginger psycho

She is past her best

[singlecoil]

Mermaid said:

voyds9 said:

Just google imaged her and to be honest she looks like a ginger psycho

She is past her best

I daresay, but so am I

[V8mate]

singlecoil said:

Presumably the resignation has been carefully negotiated with the powers that be at NI. Golden parachute, I expect.

In the guise of a vacancy which suddenly appeared at Sky?

[miniman]

Mermaid said:

voyds9 said:

Just google imaged her and to be honest she looks like a ginger psycho

She is past her best

That's understatement along the lines of "John Prescott is just a little overweight".

[anonymous-user]

Mermaid said:

voyds9 said:

Just google imaged her and to be honest she looks like a ginger psycho

She is past her best

She's a frickin minger and always has been.

[carmonk]

Ginga minger. What was Grant Mitchell thinking?

[supersingle]

Jasandjules said:

Why is she allowed to resign and isn't sat in jail right now awaiting trial?

SITTING!!!

[Derek Smith]

Jasandjules said:

Why is she allowed to resign and isn't sat in jail right now awaiting trial?

A better penalty would be to sit her in the sun.

[singlecoil]

Derek Smith said:

Jasandjules said:

Why is she allowed to resign and isn't sat in jail right now awaiting trial?

A better penalty would be to sit her in the sun.

I'd give her a good spanking. Would you lot be happy with that? Send her round to my place and suitable punishment will be meted out. It may take several sessions.