Bigbro's foray into the scary world of blogging
I'm glad to see that Norman Kember has thanked the soldiers who rescued him from captivity in Iraq. It's only polite - when someone does something for you, it's really rather rude not to thank them. However, I am astounded that the BBC managed to generate a full 24 hours of news coverage regarding the fact that Mr. Kember had not yet specifically thanked these people. He generally thanked various people and all involved in his rescue - he did not specifically NOT thank the soldiers or any other party - his wife thanked everyone on his behalf, including the soldier - he provided intelligence information to these soldiers regarding his captors and, as far as I can see, helped them as best he possibly could. There is a good chance that his mental state is not at its best and in fairness, he probably has more important things on his mind than to remember to thank each and every individual and/or group involved in his rescue within the first 24 hours of being released.
But yet the BBC see fit to create a news frenzy because the poor guy, having just been rescued from 4 months of captivity did not specifically thank the soldiers involved in his rescue. I hope the moron in the BBC who decided this was a newsworthy story never has to suffer through the mental anguish of a day's captivity - never mind 4 months!
I sincerely hope that each and every BBC news reporter, anchor-person and director who repeated this stupid piece of non-news to the nation is made to apologise in person to Mr. Kembel and his family. And perhaps in the future they will have the decency to find some actual content for their reporting.
I have lost a lot of respect for the BBC news team in the last 24 hours.
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