Feb 9
Ellen’s achievement
Does it really deserve the first 15 minutes of the BBC news on Monday? I mean come on. They pre-empted coverage of an agreement between Sharon & the PA, to wax poetic about her. Now the cynic might suggest that Beeb was unwilling to say anything positive, at all, about either Condileeza Rice or Arial Sharon.
It is an impressive achievement, helped with lots of modern technology. Would the BBC care as much is she was a he? Personally the round the world airplane speed records and the near-space tourism is far more important than this. Both will have profound affects on the way we travel; while one woman going solo round the planet in a high-tech sailboat probably will not have much.
Of course, Jon, a keen sailor, disagrees with me.
7 Comments so far
Dodge
You really are miserable idiot. Her achievement is astonishing. ITN devoted almost all of their early evening bulletin to the story which was very refreshing. Her profound affect is one that will last forever. She showed inspirational and enduring human spirit and bravery. These uplifting concepts of perseverence and courage are obviously incomprehensible to the type of person whose own misplaced self-importance persuades himself that he should set up a self-indulgent blog that i feel soiled to have stumbled upon,
Wow, nice comment, you attacked me and failed to point out how I was wrong in my post. Did I not say the achievement was impressive? Or did you skip that part in your keeness to slag me off.
Listen Dodge
you were wrong to say she didn’t deserve 15 mins of BBC coverage, wrong to criticise people who might wish to wax poetic about her, wrong to hint that her achievement is less worthy because of modern technology, wrong to argue about her trip’s effect on the way we travel – that wasn’t what it was about. She didn’t go round the world to demonstrate sailing as a means of quicker public transport.
Andrew, I am afraid your comment does come across a bit grumpy, old chap. If this is what happens when you are impressed by a person’s achievement, god help them when you are not!
Doesn’t justify the comments from William. So I am not as excited as the rest of you does that make me an idiot? No I just don’t agree with hype about her achievement.
I even agree with her getting a Dame from the Queen. I still think the coverage of her arrival was over kill.
Actually, I think some of the coverage has been a bit excessive. I guess one of the factors folk overlook is that Britain is not exactly awash with sporting heroes, and she is definitely one of them.
Of course, we could have a right old ding-dong about whether this kind of event is a real sport or not. Groan…...
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