Comments on The Pensive Quill: NUJ Vindicates Boston College Researcher

Congratulations on this Anthony... Just sitting ha...

2013-08-06T12:57:34.468+01:00

Congratulations on this Anthony... Just sitting having a good read to myself today. Keep er lit!!!

Gerard, I take your point about there porbably be...

2013-08-05T22:38:36.108+01:00

Gerard,

I take your point about there porbably being a mechanism in the NUJ for dealing with a complaint that would seem to be vexatious or to borrow a term from Allison, malicious.

But how would I feel about sending anybody in front of the Ethics Council? There is no guarantee of a fair hearing for them. One of my criticisms of the Ethics Council is that it is Ethics deficient so I would balk at the notion of placing union colleagues in front of it.

As somebody suggested earlier the two who lied in this case are no doubt annoyed by the verdict - one of them is the Ethics Council.

Larry and James, appreciated. Better for the lot o...

2013-08-03T13:50:07.228+01:00

Larry and James, appreciated. Better for the lot of them had they never chosen to go down the route they did. There was only one outcome - failure. It is never nice to be trounced so I am not going to gloat over it. My ire in the wake of the Ethics Council flawed verdict was not directed against either journalist but against the Ethics Council for behaviour I considered reprehensible and deeply unethical. What amazes me is how those presumably advising Allison/Ciaran failed to foresee the only outcome. It was so predictable. That's why I could publicly announce in the immediate wake of the Ethics Council flawed verdict, that it mattered not; that I would win in the end. James, only the editor of the Irish News can explain his view of ethics. I don't presume to speak for him. I just happen to think he could have played his hand much better. But there we go. Mistakes get made. Often, failing to recognise them rather than making them per se is what seals our fate.

Great to hear the good news, AM, and I look forwar...

2013-08-03T01:52:46.891+01:00

Great to hear the good news, AM, and I look forward to meeting a certain "close contact" of yours with whom I will share my enthusiasm next week here.

Dixie, LOL. Great. He actually wrote to the NUJ...

2013-08-02T22:23:59.142+01:00

Dixie,

LOL. Great.

He actually wrote to the NUJ to snitch that I had been critical of the servicing officer! Maintaining a decades long habit of reporting to somebody in London I guess!

Tain Bo,

I know but I have maintained from the outset despite the resounding nature of the achievement, I do not intend rubbing noses in it. The sense of satisfaction comes not in seeing Allison Morris/Ciaran Barnes take a fall - I am philosophical about that - but in seeing the Ethics Council brought to book. I have consistently argued that it had behaved well short of the standards we can expect of it.

A strange man was spotted on the Falls Road wearin...

2013-08-02T21:07:13.187+01:00

A strange man was spotted on the Falls Road wearing a hoodie with the hood pulled up and a scarf around his lower face during the recent heat wave.

With shoulders hunched he moved like a man determined to let nobody get in his way.

Then a small child stepped out and confronted him...

"Hey Danny! Danny Morrison I know it's you!"

The man kicked the small child and hurried off, disappearing round the corner of the Sinn Fein center.

The child's irate parents; both long time unemployed voters of Sinn Fein arrived a short time later demanding to know why a grown man would kick a small child.

A member of Sinn Fein said the parents had no proof it was Danny Morrison who had kicked the child as he was heavily disguised following the recent NUJ ruling.

With snotters blinding him the child said... "Sure it was Danny Morrison, who else wears a cowboy hat round here?"

Anthony, how does it feel to be the pigeon instea...

2013-08-02T20:47:53.248+01:00

Anthony,

how does it feel to be the pigeon instead of the statue for once?!
Best of luck to you.

Anthony. A well deserved decision , congratulatio...

2013-08-02T19:01:53.975+01:00

Anthony.

A well deserved decision , congratulations on getting a verdict which you were entitled to.

A bit late a cara I,ve been away drowning worms an...

2013-08-02T10:49:56.814+01:00

A bit late a cara I,ve been away drowning worms and collecting Plum poteen, a great and deserved result, now if there really was justice Morris and Barnes should be hung out to dry,I totally agree with Micks comments , well done aris for having the balls to stick with this, good result Anthony .

Its been a good day today, sun was out, Ed Snowden...

2013-08-01T22:32:49.983+01:00

Its been a good day today, sun was out, Ed Snowden gained sanctuary in Russia, and at last the NUJ stepped up to the plate. Well done mate, you richly deserved this verdict, the original judgement was preposterous.

Mick

a bit of vindication is always good for the soul m...

2013-08-01T19:48:20.737+01:00

a bit of vindication is always good for the soul mackers. well done.

is there any mechanism in the journalist world that can challenge the obviously underhand way in which the two hacks attacked you?

well done comrade. put the feet up and celebrate. i am having a half of whisky for you tonight!!

They also have a brass neck to talk about ethics a...

2013-08-01T16:16:52.068+01:00

They also have a brass neck to talk about ethics and breach off, if you ask me. What code of ethics does there editor go by, especially the Irish news, Christ the night.

AM, Fair play to you, the media here is as rotten ...

2013-08-01T16:13:19.663+01:00

AM,
Fair play to you, the media here is as rotten as the men that direct what coverage we should and should not know.

top notch, great to hear.

2013-08-01T15:42:53.377+01:00

top notch, great to hear.

Jim, much appreciated. No need to respect my opin...

2013-08-01T12:21:09.337+01:00

Jim,

much appreciated. No need to respect my opinions, just to respect my right to hold them - which you obviously do. I respect a person's right to hold whatever opinion they want. I might be disdainful of the opinion held. But that is our right in a free speech culture

Congratulations Anthony. Stories like this restore...

2013-08-01T11:43:52.975+01:00

Congratulations Anthony. Stories like this restores one's faith in human nature.
I am happy for you, and even though we are a few generations apart, and our views may differ, I respect you opinions, and belfries.
Keep up the good work.

Simon, always my own thoughts on the matter.

2013-07-31T23:44:12.099+01:00

Simon,

always my own thoughts on the matter.

Congratulations!! A real and meaningful victory! ...

2013-07-31T23:38:26.602+01:00

Congratulations!! A real and meaningful victory! It stank to the heavens from day one.

Dixie, thanks for the support. Censorship has bee...

2013-07-31T23:33:39.356+01:00

Dixie,

thanks for the support. Censorship has been pushed back a little.

Michaelhenry have you ever tried to kick yourself ...

2013-07-31T23:24:27.138+01:00

Michaelhenry have you ever tried to kick yourself in the ghoulies?

I doubt it that the Irish News will attempt this themselves.

I can perhaps hear a muffled 'ouch' or the biting of tongues but as we've seen so often, these type of journalists; like those cute little praire dogs, will pop up again out of another hole somewhere.

Anyway Mackers congratulations mo chara.

Robert, indeed. It is a cold house for censors!

2013-07-31T23:23:46.102+01:00

Robert,

indeed. It is a cold house for censors!

Anthony, Congratulations on being reinstated to t...

2013-07-31T23:18:05.889+01:00

Anthony,

Congratulations on being reinstated to the 'Igloo Builders of the Sahara'!

Michaelhenry, you have been supportive on this f...

2013-07-31T22:27:08.376+01:00

Michaelhenry,

you have been supportive on this for the outset and I appreciate that. The verdict was a week ago and the Irish News have said nothing about it. Whereas they ran the flawed Ethics Council verdict the day after it came out.

In any event despite the two journalists who waged the complaint behaving wrongly in doing so, I am not going to go on a coat trailing exercise by rubbing their noses in it. I am just pleased to have been vindicated. My real ire has been roused by the Ethics Council. Journalists will make complaints for a whole range of reasons. The Ethics Council is supposed to deliberate with a degree of sophistication and efficiency. It failed miserably. I retain grave reservations about its agenda.

AM- Thought it strange when you first brought thi...

2013-07-31T22:04:25.771+01:00

AM-

Thought it strange when you first brought this story up on the Quill that the Irish News made no reply or excuse on here-I think you said that the editor wrote to you in private but their claims/complaints were made in public-if they have any decency in them at all they should make a public apology-but I think they should still make some comment on the Quill to explain themselves-if they can-I still buy the Irish News 6 days of the week-lol-must look out for the big sorry-