From: hallam@zeus02.desy.de (Phillip M. Hallam-Baker)
Subject: Re: Mellor: The establishment will again rush to
Reply-To: hallam@zeus02.desy.de
Organization: DESY ZEUS Central Data Acquisition
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 20:20:00 GMT

In article <1992Jul22.123355.14064@husc3.harvard.edu>,
koumis@husc4.harvard.edu (Anthony Koumis) writes:

|>In article <1992Jul21.173547.8271@hemlock.cray.com>
|>andyw@aspen32.cray.com (Andy Warner) writes:
|>>
|>>In article <1992Jul21.200203.20658@dscomsf.desy.de>,
|>hallam@zeus02.desy.de (Phillip M. Hallam-Baker) writes:
|>>> [...]
|>>> I note that the first five replies in this thread were not
|>protesting
|>>> about the threat to press freedom but wanting more salacious
|>details.
|>>> What do you guys want, a gif of them copulating in
|>alt.dirty.pictures?
|>>
|>>No, just some concise info would have been nice. Between the VNS
|>>& the World Service I've got the official view. Maybe there are
|>>some subtleties that I'll never know.. it's hard work getting
|>>in-depth news on non-USA topics over here (I'm equally sure the
|>>reverse is true too.)
|>>
|>>My apologies for not going into a rant about press freedom before
|>>finding out what I'd be talking about - next time maybe...
|>>
|>>> Fat smarmy tory git gets laid with curvaceous cutey, big deal.
|>Ministers
|>>> decide that this is proof that the press must be gagged is
|>important
|>>> though.
|>>
|>>True.
|>>
|>>> [...]
|>>-- 
|>>andyw.	N0REN/G1XRL
|>>
|>>andyw@aspen.cray.com	Andy Warner, Cray Research, Inc.	(612) 683-5835
|>
|>
|>
|>I agree, P H-B's original post mentioned like we all knew the ins and
|>outs of the issue.  I asked for more details especially since Mellor
|>is my husband's MP. (his account I am on).  But no full story was
|>forthcoming and then we are attacked  for wanting slalcious detail. We
|>|>could have wanted salacious details and also have a reasonalbe
|>request to know the full story boefore commenting on the press issue.

I did say that Mellor has been caught with his pants down. Apart from
the fact thast the 31 year old actress in question is rather cute and
Mellor is rather fat and very smarmy, I have no more details to report.
Oh apart from the fact that the People paid 20,000 quid for a picky of
the bed, so now we know how to make a bit of dosh on the side, invite
cabinet ministers round for some nooky then flog pictures of the
furniture.

As far as I am concerned the story is entirley the fact that the
establishment chums all crawled out of the woodwork crying for a privacy
law.

This is tantamount to saying that there should have been a law stopping
Gary Hart from being followed from his press conference where he said
`I'm not having an affair, go on and proove me a liar' only to be so
proven in remarkably short order.

I do not agree with what the gutter press reported, however I do defend
their right to do so. If there is a problem in the British press it is
the fact that one man has been allowed to buy up 30% of it using other
peoples money and then use it to play politics. The deal that Murdoch
cut with old Nick is that they will rubbish Labour Politicians for
`looney' ideas and expose smarmy Tory ministers hopping into bed with
their secretaries. I think that the Tories get the better baragain.

I'm off to take some pickys of some beds in the hope that a Tory cabinet
minister might have a mad impulse to bonk his secretary on it.


Phill Hallam-Baker
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