Sean Moncrieff - Newstalk

Alicano

2smiggy wrote: »

i know it's been said before, but there has to be someone better than the woman who reviews the movies nearly every Friday. Woeful !!

Yep. I've caved and have to say she is not commercial radio standard at all. I heard her last effort. Very very poor and almost amateur stuff. Uhms and eh's and stop-start unsure of herself presentation. Unlike many of the other contributors who have all the prep done, just wait for Sean's link and they're up and running with prepared content. Don't care much for movies, but her presentation/contribution is very poor. Especially highlighted if the booze guest is well prepared and knows their topic (which is more often than not).

quintana76

That girl on "what's going on in the World" has got everything the wrong way around. It is a cruel thing to ask refugees to return to Syria and their homes with the war over she says. Would have thought refugees were not immigrants. She seems to think so. Boris's "rant" on the burka was insulting to the woman themselves even though the burka was vile.Dont get that. not really surprised though I'll bet that was Shona with her SJW logic ( which means no logic)

skylight1987

Alicano wrote: »

Yep. I've caved and have to say she is not commercial radio standard at all. I heard her last effort. Very very poor and almost amateur stuff. Uhms and eh's and stop-start unsure of herself presentation. Unlike many of the other contributors who have all the prep done, just wait for Sean's link and they're up and running with prepared content. Don't care much for movies, but her presentation/contribution is very poor. Especially highlighted if the booze guest is well prepared and knows their topic (which is more often than not).

I agree with your post .in fact I now change to another station when she is on, which is a pity as i love movies but she is unprofessional has an annoying voice along with very limited knowledge of the subject she speaks about.

delaad

skylight1987 wrote: »

I agree with your post .in fact I now change to another station when she is on, which is a pity as i love movies but she is unprofessional has an annoying voice along with very limited knowledge of the subject she speaks about.

I'm on board with that:D

kunst nugget

skylight1987 wrote: »

I agree with your post .in fact I now change to another station when she is on, which is a pity as i love movies but she is unprofessional has an annoying voice along with very limited knowledge of the subject she speaks about.

As bad as she is, she's not half as bad as Jennifer Gannon on the Last Word.

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skylight1987 wrote: »

I agree with your post .in fact I now change to another station when she is on, which is a pity as i love movies but she is unprofessional has an annoying voice along with very limited knowledge of the subject she speaks about.

You should switch over to BBC5 if movies are your thing. Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo do a movie review show on Fridays from 2 to 4.

Snake Plisken

5555555555 wrote: »

You should switch over to BBC5 if movies are your thing. Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo do a movie review show on Fridays from 2 to 4.

Yes I usually watch his reviews on YouTube every Friday night, it just goes to show how inept Esther is on the movie slot. The chap from the Indo who does the movie reviews on Dave Fanning's weekend show is pretty good and knows his stuff.

BPKS

Sean can be a tool sometimes.

Read out a text where somebody mentioned a SJW.

Sean pretended first he didnt know what it stood for. Then went onto say that if it stands for a social justice warrior, then that is something that the alt right call people who are not in the alt right.


Like I said, he can be a tool sometimes.

Grolschevik

BPKS wrote: »

Sean can be a tool sometimes.

Read out a text where somebody mentioned a SJW.

Sean pretended first he didnt know what it stood for. Then went onto say that if it stands for a social justice warrior, then that is something that the alt right call people who are not in the alt right.


Like I said, he can be a tool sometimes.

What he said sounds bang on to me.

jooksavage

BPKS wrote: »

Sean can be a tool sometimes.

Read out a text where somebody mentioned a SJW.

Sean pretended first he didnt know what it stood for. Then went onto say that if it stands for a social justice warrior, then that is something that the alt right call people who are not in the alt right.


Like I said, he can be a tool sometimes.

Jesus do people still use that term? Not sure it's the exclusive preserve of the alt right but it certainly used to be a go-to for boring, unimaginative arseholes when they had already exhausted the rest of their vocabulary in a wearingly predictable text about "tree-hugging snowflakes".

BPKS

jooksavage wrote: »

Jesus do people still use that term? Not sure it's the exclusive preserve of the alt right but it certainly used to be a go-to for boring, unimaginative arseholes when they had already exhausted the rest of their vocabulary in a wearingly predictable text about "tree-hugging snowflakes".

I suppose its a lot easier saying something like snowflake or SJW rather than expanding the theory about how the Political Correctness movement has ended up with its proponents now essentially becoming more "fascist" in their own way than the dictatorial, right wing, fascist movement they rallied against.

This theory was brilliantly explored in one of my favourite songs almost 25 years ago. I think of that song during practically all non-music radio programmes I listen to.

quintana76

BPKS wrote: »

Sean can be a tool sometimes.

Read out a text where somebody mentioned a SJW.

Sean pretended first he didnt know what it stood for. Then went onto say that if it stands for a social justice warrior, then that is something that the alt right call people who are not in the alt right.


Like I said, he can be a tool sometimes.

That is the only problem I have with him. He has stereotypical right-on media luvvie views and sneeringly dismisses anyone who slightly veers from his peer dictated consensus. It is a pity he is so narrow minded and unoriginal in his views as his show can be excellent. It is his only failing.

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He handled that interview with the woman who'd done the maths for the Friends "pivot" bit with very bad grace today, I thought.

alaimacerc

Cameron Sharp Equalizer wrote: »

He handled that interview with the woman who'd done the maths for the Friends "pivot" bit with very bad grace today, I thought.

She was a pretty bad interviewee, to be fair. Not only does she suffer from the usual mathematician's vice, of "in order to solve this problem, let us first make it vastly more complicated", she did a poor job of explaining it. And worst of all, was dull with it.

Aoibheann O Sullivan might have managed to do something with her; most interviewers would struggle.

alaimacerc

jooksavage wrote: »

Jesus do people still use that term? Not sure it's the exclusive preserve of the alt right but it certainly used to be a go-to for boring, unimaginative arseholes when they had already exhausted the rest of their vocabulary in a wearingly predictable text about "tree-hugging snowflakes".

The alt-right isn't all that "alt" any more, really.

You'd think that a Bush-era type trying to brand themselves as a "compassionate conservative" might have thought twice about using it.

alaimacerc

quintana76 wrote: »

Boris's "rant" on the burka was insulting to the woman themselves even though the burka was vile.Dont get that. not really surprised though I'll bet that was Shona with her SJW logic ( which means no logic)

I thought her segment was pretty poor, personally. The regular guy is a lot better, just at the level of being able to construct sentences, and broadcast them in a listenable manner. The chap with the hyphen that you complain about every single week, and twice when this is the issue, mind.

But her point there was entirely reasonable. You can think the burqa is a bad thing, and be opposed to criminalising it -- as for example Borinson himself supposedly was arguing. And likewise, you can disagree with the wisdom of people's clothing choices, without resorting to dehumanising and denigrating slurs aimed at them.

alaimacerc

Alicano wrote: »

Especially highlighted if the booze guest is well prepared and knows their topic (which is more often than not).

I agree Movies Esther is terrible. We learn whether she smugly likes something, or sulkily didn't care for it... and that's about it.

But I suspect the format actually does her some favours. The Booze people are certainly well-prepared, though often they can questions in that amount to "can they beat google, that the texter was too lazy to use for themselves?" Several of them inevitably teeter on the edge of the "insufferably pretentious wine (or beer) bore", and the format at least breaks that up a little bit. Though hardly in a way that would serve a serious movie critic.

Faugheen

I much prefer when the Aussie girl does MaB to Esther. She's always much better prepared and has a passion for movies.

alaimacerc

Faugheen wrote: »

I much prefer when the Aussie girl does MaB to Esther. She's always much better prepared and has a passion for movies.

Concur, though "prefer to Esther" sounds very much like damning with faint praise. The Oz woman was actually pretty good!

alaimacerc

Did Beer Guy(TM) just say Bayreuth was hard to get to, because it was a long way from Düsseldorf? That's maybe because it's at the other end of the country, and there's half a dozen closer German airports! (Koeln, Munich, Frankfurt... the other Frankfurt...)

BPKS

Anybody else picking up interference on the Moncrieff show today.

The beeps and buzzing started just after Moncrieff kinda slagged D'Arcy. Hmmmmmmm.

Tell me how

BPKS wrote: »

Anybody else picking up interference on the Moncrieff show today.

The beeps and buzzing started just after Moncrieff kinda slagged D'Arcy. Hmmmmmmm.

The station went off air for several minutes during Tom Dunne's show on Tuesday night. Was replaced by a mild buzzing noise while it was off.

alaimacerc

BPKS wrote: »

Anybody else picking up interference on the Moncrieff show today.

The beeps and buzzing started just after Moncrieff kinda slagged D'Arcy. Hmmmmmmm.

It's that massive statist jamming apparatus again!

What was the D'Arcy comment? Might have missed it, as I didn't want to be spoilerised during the TV slot. Which I like, except that they're a little apt to do that -- though not half as bad as some.

Say Your Number

Beyonce's ould fella sounded away the fairies altogether, such bullsh1t he was spouting during that interview.

2smiggy

every week I look forward to Movies and Booze , then nearly every week that one Ester is on to review the movies :mad:

quintana76

Tubridy at it again. Pushing open borders by returning to the Ur moment of the refugee propaganda. The drowned kid who was quite safe in Turkey but whose father wasn't satisfied as he wanted his teeth fixed in Europe. He was responsible for his kids death not us. Used by Europe's enemies (aware or unaware of that status) to sow the seeds of future European conflict. A Sarajevo moment if you like.

Tell me how

quintana76 wrote: »

Tubridy at it again. Pushing open borders by returning to the Ur moment of the refugee propaganda. The drowned kid who was quite safe in Turkey but whose father wasn't satisfied as he wanted his teeth fixed in Europe. He was responsible for his kids death not us. Used by Europe's enemies (aware or unaware of that status) to sow the seeds of future European conflict. A Sarajevo moment if you like.

Wha?

quintana76

Tell me how wrote: »

Wha?

Maybe I went a bit over the top there. Was grumpy at the bus stop. Sean was following his normal track though.

quintana76

Did I just hear Jurgen Hebermas being described as a liberal.

ballsymchugh

what was the point in that opium interview? seemed to be less than 2 minutes long