Derek Jameson

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  13 September 2012     08:13191213
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  Derek 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.html
  Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
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  13 September 2012     08:58191218
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  I'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
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  13 September 2012     13:23191268
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  Thank 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/Clerihew
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• howard mcsweeney1

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  13 September 2012     18:10191324
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  very dry tom -had to read it through a couple of times.
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  13 September 2012     18:35191328
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  Luvit, Nice one Tom
  
  R.I.P. Derek
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  13 September 2012     19:19191342
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  RIP Derek - a really nice geezer xx
  There'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".