Copy of letter sent to Indo and Sino

jdoyle_1

Doubt they will print it tho...

Sir

Is Brendan O'Connor stark, raving mad or is he simply the stupidest person in Ireland? And given the state of the country, that would be some claim.

As I'm not the type of sleaze-ball hack reporter once employed by Rebekah Brooks at the News of the World, I wouldn't be privy to O'Connor's confidential health records.

So his state of mind - as determined by a medical professional - is his own business. Therefore, I will err on the side of caution and presume he is just plain dumb

In the Sunday Independent (July 17, 2011), under the headline 'Rupert as flawed father of the World', O'Connor claims 'poor' Rebekah Brooks is a victim of prejudice, that snooty Guardian-reading types don't like her because she's a go-getting gal who knew what buttons to cynically push on her rise to the top of News International. Worse still, she's a red-head who once worked as a secretary. How dare she become one of the most powerful newspaper executives in Britain and Ireland. Hell mend her etc, etc, and so forth.

Nonsense.

Brooks is a despicable character because the reporters she employed hacked the voicemail of a missing 13-year-old girl, thereby impeding the police investigation into the girl's disappearance. Milly Dowler was abducted on her way home form school on March 2002. Her body was not discovered until September 2002. She had been murdered. When reporters employed by Brooks deleted her voicemail messages, they gave false hope to a distraught family who were no doubt praying for the child's safe return.

The public didn't care too much about NOTW reporters or investigators hacking the phones of royals or rock stars, but the scandal that erupted over their actions during the Milly Dowler case caused so much outrage that a 168-year-old newspaper, the biggest selling newspaper in Britain with a turnover of £150m per annum, had to close.

That's the ball-park we are playing in here. That is what the newspaper-reading public care about. They do not want to be associated with the type of scumbags who hack the phone messages of dead or missing school girls.

But for some reason O'Connor does - his sycophantic drivel about Brooks is testament to this.

Not once in his defence of her did he mention Milly Dowler. Does he think people are stupid? Does he think he can gloss over the real reason Brooks had to go with contrary rubbish about red hair and charm?

As I type this, the news of Brooks's arrest is breaking. Britain's prime minister could lose his job over the hacking scandal, given his association with ex-NOTW editor Andy Coulson. O'Connor, as his puerile style of 'journalism' shows, obviously doesn't know a real news story from a hole in the ground. He should follow Kelvin McKenzie's advice to one of his brain-dead Sun readers - and ban himself from reading newspapers for life. God knows how he ever got a job writing for one.

Sincerely,

peginald

I registered especially to show my approval for your letter, and to remind you to send a copy to the convenience store chain that Mr. O'Connor endorses in televised commercials.

jdivision

Why would you send it to the Indo? He writes for the Sindo. Peginald is right though, giving out to Mace far more effective

brian_t

You make a good point in your letter but I doubt if either the Sunday Independent or Mace would bother reading past the first line before binning it so your good point will be completely lost on them.

jdoyle_1

Have it on good authority that the letter will be in the Sindo this week, but it's been subbed heavily. Fair enough, it was a bit of a rant - still, it will be interesting to see what they left in. As another poster observed, the first two pars are prime candidates for snipping...

JustinDee

Too right it would be edited if ever printed.

Far too long and with the amount of sharp pronouns is far too pre-judgmental.

goose2005

jdoyle_1 wrote: »

Have it on good authority that the letter will be in the Sindo this week, but it's been subbed heavily. Fair enough, it was a bit of a rant - still, it will be interesting to see what they left in. As another poster observed, the first two pars are prime candidates for snipping...

yes, it made it in.

brian_t

This is your letter as it appears online. It's interesting to compare the two.

Sir --Under the headline 'Rupert as flawed father of the World', (Sunday Independent, July 17, 2011), Brendan O'Connor claims 'poor' Rebekah Brooks is a victim of prejudice, that snooty Guardian-reading types don't like her because she's a go-getting gal who knew what buttons to push on her rise to the top of News International. Worse still, she's a redhead who once worked as a secretary.
Nonsense.
Brooks is despicable because the reporters she employed hacked the voicemail of a missing 13-year-old girl, impeding the investigation into the girl's disappearance.
The public didn't care too much about NOtW reporters or investigators hacking the phones of royals or rock stars, but the scandal that erupted over their actions during the Milly Dowler case caused so much outrage that a 168-year-old newspaper, the biggest selling newspaper in Britain, had to close.
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http://www.independent.ie/opinion/letters/tabloids-actions-doomed-brooks-2829902.html

Fuinseog

jdoyle_1 wrote: »

Doubt they will print it tho...

Sir

Is Brendan O'Connor stark, raving mad or is he simply the stupidest person in Ireland? And given the state of the country, that would be some claim.

As I'm not the type of sleaze-ball hack reporter once employed by Rebekah Brooks at the News of the World, I wouldn't be privy to O'Connor's confidential health records.

So his state of mind - as determined by a medical professional - is his own business. Therefore, I will err on the side of caution and presume he is just plain dumb

In the Sunday Independent (July 17, 2011), under the headline 'Rupert as flawed father of the World', O'Connor claims 'poor' Rebekah Brooks is a victim of prejudice, that snooty Guardian-reading types don't like her because she's a go-getting gal who knew what buttons to cynically push on her rise to the top of News International. Worse still, she's a red-head who once worked as a secretary. How dare she become one of the most powerful newspaper executives in Britain and Ireland. Hell mend her etc, etc, and so forth.

Nonsense.

Brooks is a despicable character because the reporters she employed hacked the voicemail of a missing 13-year-old girl, thereby impeding the police investigation into the girl's disappearance. Milly Dowler was abducted on her way home form school on March 2002. Her body was not discovered until September 2002. She had been murdered. When reporters employed by Brooks deleted her voicemail messages, they gave false hope to a distraught family who were no doubt praying for the child's safe return.

The public didn't care too much about NOTW reporters or investigators hacking the phones of royals or rock stars, but the scandal that erupted over their actions during the Milly Dowler case caused so much outrage that a 168-year-old newspaper, the biggest selling newspaper in Britain with a turnover of £150m per annum, had to close.

That's the ball-park we are playing in here. That is what the newspaper-reading public care about. They do not want to be associated with the type of scumbags who hack the phone messages of dead or missing school girls.

But for some reason O'Connor does - his sycophantic drivel about Brooks is testament to this.

Not once in his defence of her did he mention Milly Dowler. Does he think people are stupid? Does he think he can gloss over the real reason Brooks had to go with contrary rubbish about red hair and charm?

As I type this, the news of Brooks's arrest is breaking. Britain's prime minister could lose his job over the hacking scandal, given his association with ex-NOTW editor Andy Coulson. O'Connor, as his puerile style of 'journalism' shows, obviously doesn't know a real news story from a hole in the ground. He should follow Kelvin McKenzie's advice to one of his brain-dead Sun readers - and ban himself from reading newspapers for life. God knows how he ever got a job writing for one.

Sincerely,

your letter is too long winded and personally abusive to be published even in the Sindo. no chance of winning that bottle of whiskey.