one_amatullah
18-06-2007, 10:55 PM
Melanie Phillips' fans showing their true colours:
18 June 2007, The Guardian
An entertaining spat between the Mail's Melanie Phillips and Arab Media Watch has taken an unfortunate turn. The lobby group urged people to complain to the Mail over a Phillips column about the Arab-Israeli conflict. Phillips, in turn, suggested on her website that her readers might like to write to Arab Media Watch. And boy, have they written, reports its chairman Sharif Hikmat Nashashibi. "One might wonder whether she hoped for the kind of vulgar, racist abuse, not to mention grammatical and linguistic embarrassment that her blog post generated," he writes. No room to reprint the messages in full, thank goodness, but suffice to say they included the phrase "f**k off back to where you came from". With readers like that, does Phillips need critics?
source: http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,,2105104,00.html
18 June 2007, The Guardian
An entertaining spat between the Mail's Melanie Phillips and Arab Media Watch has taken an unfortunate turn. The lobby group urged people to complain to the Mail over a Phillips column about the Arab-Israeli conflict. Phillips, in turn, suggested on her website that her readers might like to write to Arab Media Watch. And boy, have they written, reports its chairman Sharif Hikmat Nashashibi. "One might wonder whether she hoped for the kind of vulgar, racist abuse, not to mention grammatical and linguistic embarrassment that her blog post generated," he writes. No room to reprint the messages in full, thank goodness, but suffice to say they included the phrase "f**k off back to where you came from". With readers like that, does Phillips need critics?
source: http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,,2105104,00.html