Dennis Sewell is bemoaning, is this week's Spectator, the Coalition-imposed decline of the BBC World Service, and the global rise of Al Jazeera, Russia Today, and Press TV. He is absolutely right on the first point. But on the second, we should instead be campaigning for Press TV to join Al Jazeera and Russia Today on Freeview.
Then, at least, any one or more of them could get down to making and broadcasting a landmark series, with an accompanying book and with as many tie-in newspaper articles as we could place, on The Twelve Tribes of the Christian Holy Land: Greek Orthodox, Latin Catholic, Armenian Orthodox, Coptic Orthodox, Syrian Orthodox, Melkite Catholic, Ethiopian Orthodox, Maronite Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, Syrian Catholic, and Armenian Catholic.
In the event of success, another such project would be more than feasible, on The Twelve Tribes of Christian Lebanon: Maronite Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Melkite Catholic, Armenian Orthodox, Armenian Catholic, Syrian Orthodox, Syrian Catholic, Assyrian, Chaldean Catholic, Coptic, Latin Catholic, and Protestant.
Yes, your humble servant is available. But his concern is that these projects proceed, not necessarily that he have any hand in them.
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Their London offices are all regular readers here, as you know. I for one would love to see Kamm and Company try and poison those particular wells against you.
ReplyDeleteWhat would he do, refer them to this site? Even if they didn't read it anyway, as they do, they are going to be ever so slightly more favourable towards you than him once they had searched your writings for references to themselves.
Good luck. I hope this comes about it and I hope you are right at the centre of it. There is probably nobody else in Britain who knows more about this than you. No, it is not as if you need the money or anything. But even so.
I don't see how they could do it without you, so they might as well have you do it. But what is BBC Four for, if not for things like this?
ReplyDeleteAll hail the Mossad Martyr of the Daily Telavivagraph, the only British commentator who fights for Christians of the Middle East. The likes of Damian Thompson and Ed West pretend to while cheering on Israel, supporting the wars in Iraq and Libya, demanding military action against Syria and Iran, rooting for the Islamist rebels in Bahrain and so on. Other people might agree with you but they never say anything. Only you hold the line.
ReplyDeleteI rather like the idea of Kamm, or any of that crowd, trying to make contact with those admirable networks. The correspondence could be published on Harry's Place, just for a laugh.
ReplyDeleteMelkite, his home address is in Who's Who.
ReplyDeleteDon't write that name, Melkite. It will give you Aids.
ReplyDeleteI cannot imagine a more glorious two-fingered salute to your evil persecutors than that. Go for it.
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