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Saturday, December 07, 2013 7:00:10 PM
Nelson Mandela dies, aged 95
Rod Liddle
5 December 2013 22:32
Look; I’m sorry Nelson Mandela is dead. It happens quite often to people in their 90s who have been very ill, even famous people, but I’m sure that doesn’t lessen the sadness for many of us. I never met the man but, on balance, I came to the conclusion that he was a force for good rather than ill. I think I came to that rather banal and broad brush conclusion twenty years ago, or maybe fifteen. So, I’m sorry he’s dead, I wish it were otherwise.
But for Christ’s sake BBC, give it a bloody break for five minutes, will you? It’s as if the poor bugger now has to bear your entire self-flagellating white post-colonial bien pensant guilt; look! Famous nice black man dies! Let’s re-run the entire history of South Africa. That’s better than watching the country we’re in being flattened by a storm.
Copyright © 2013 The Spectator (1828) Ltd
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/rod-liddle/2013/12/nelson-mandela-dies-aged-95-the-bbc-goes-into-overdrive/ [with comments]
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Rod Liddle criticises BBC for too much coverage of Nelson Mandela death
Spectator columnist posts comments on Twitter, describing story as 'famous nice black man dies'
6 December 2013
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/dec/06/rod-liddle-bbc-nelson-mandela-spectator [with comments]
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The Rod Liddle decision tree on how to react to the death of Nelson Mandela
Richard Garside
6 Dec 13
https://twitter.com/RichardJGarside/status/408890477023199232
Rod Liddle
5 December 2013 22:32
Look; I’m sorry Nelson Mandela is dead. It happens quite often to people in their 90s who have been very ill, even famous people, but I’m sure that doesn’t lessen the sadness for many of us. I never met the man but, on balance, I came to the conclusion that he was a force for good rather than ill. I think I came to that rather banal and broad brush conclusion twenty years ago, or maybe fifteen. So, I’m sorry he’s dead, I wish it were otherwise.
But for Christ’s sake BBC, give it a bloody break for five minutes, will you? It’s as if the poor bugger now has to bear your entire self-flagellating white post-colonial bien pensant guilt; look! Famous nice black man dies! Let’s re-run the entire history of South Africa. That’s better than watching the country we’re in being flattened by a storm.
Copyright © 2013 The Spectator (1828) Ltd
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/rod-liddle/2013/12/nelson-mandela-dies-aged-95-the-bbc-goes-into-overdrive/ [with comments]
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Rod Liddle criticises BBC for too much coverage of Nelson Mandela death
Spectator columnist posts comments on Twitter, describing story as 'famous nice black man dies'
6 December 2013
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/dec/06/rod-liddle-bbc-nelson-mandela-spectator [with comments]
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The Rod Liddle decision tree on how to react to the death of Nelson Mandela
Richard Garside
6 Dec 13
https://twitter.com/RichardJGarside/status/408890477023199232
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