Derek Jameson
- 13 September 2012 08:13191213Derek Jameson, the jaunty Cockney Lad
That the BBC described as, "an East End boy made bad"
Adept as he was at boosting circulation
His daily Star has lost all scintillation.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/broadcaster-jameson-dies-aged-82-184933496.htmlIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - 13 September 2012 08:58191218I'm liking your poem there Tom. This guy Jameson was a real cockney geezer and it is a surprise he rose to such levels of editorship..but as it says there, he was quite a circulation builder and clearly came up the hard way through the newsroom floor.
But have we seen the end of guys like that reaching the top? Some experts recently said so on a documentary made by Andrew Neil. On a morning where the notorious sun editor Kelvin Mackenzie has to eat humble pie, very humble pie, over the contents of his dreadful Sun frontpage on the Hillsborough disaster..(naturally it was someone elses fault, the way of the world these days...) I guess it could be the case.
But all in all Derek Jameson was quite a character, a tv personality in the end too with his own chat show but he certainly contributed to society and made it a bit better for all of us. RIP.email: dover7@msn.com - 13 September 2012 13:23191268Thank you PaulB. These are but my sorry attempts at Clerihews*. (A habit I have no desire to slough.)
Howard McSweeney, local hero
Where there's community-conflagration he's no Nero
Famed for sagacity, advice and 'a quiet word'
a fount of information, but no Dickie Bird.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClerihewIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - 13 September 2012 18:10191324very dry tom -had to read it through a couple of times.
- 13 September 2012 18:35191328Luvit, Nice one Tom
R.I.P. Derek - 13 September 2012 19:19191342RIP Derek - a really nice geezer xxThere's always a little truth behind every "Just kidding", a little emotion behind every "I don't care" and a little pain behind every "I'm ok".