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How Terribly Sad For Alistair Stewart After Serving Itn As A Newsreader

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Bobbisox1 | 08:29 Thu 30th Jan 2020 | News
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That he’s been forced to step down because of a misjudgement when he called someone and ‘angry ape’ on Twitter
The recipient said he was racist and so ends an unblemished 30 odd years as a newsreader

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51300799
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"...he’s been forced to step down because of a misjudgement when he called someone and ‘angry ape’ on Twitter" He didn't call someone an 'angry ape'. He used a well-known Shakespeare quote which essentially says a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. The quote has the words 'angry ape' in them, but it is a leap too far to suggest he called the other...
09:00 Thu 30th Jan 2020
Whatever the rights and wrongs of his situation, I shan't miss him.
I've never liked his strange "running out of breath and about to expire" delivery.
I fully expect him to be given a programme of his own on Classic FM or Scala Radio, like so many of his former colleagues.
Maybe they have wanted shut of him for a while and were just waiting - and praying - for him to do something stupid? They do appear not to have backed him over this sole complaint.
ginge - // I've never liked his strange "running out of breath and about to expire" delivery. //

I entirely agree - he always made me feel on edge with his habit of apparently using every last cubic millimetre of air in his lungs before breathing in.
If he's as good as all his colleagues say he is, he'll no doubt get hired by another broadcaster.
That is brilliant.

Bobbisox kindly awarded me Best Answer, an answer that discussed the topic, did not deviate, was not abusive to any other member, and was within the Site Rules, and it has been censored by its removal.

My perfectly reasonable thoughts on the subject were clearly upsetting to the censor for some reason.
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That is brilliant.

Bobbisox kindly awarded me Best Answer, an answer that discussed the topic, did not deviate, was not abusive to any other member and was within the Site Rules, and it has been censored by its removal.

My perfectly reasonable thoughts on the subject were clearly too upsetting for the censor for some reason.

Perhaps my answer wasn’t considered ‘correct’. Perhaps it was ‘misleading’.
That is brilliant.

Bobbisox kindly awarded me Best Answer, an answer that discussed the topic, did not deviate, was not abusive to any other member and was within the Site Rules, and it has been censored by its removal.

My perfectly reasonable thoughts on the subject were clearly too upsetting for the censor for some reason.

Perhaps my answer wasn’t considered ‘correct’. Perhaps it was ‘misleading’.
I have reinstated the "Best Answer". I have amended the answer and do not feel like it is a breach of the Site Rules anymore.
Any idea how many questions, threads, answers have been reinstated in the last, say, 3 months and whether the majority were removed by one Mod? (he asked.....not really expecting an answer).
It is a shame he's stepped down, a person of his experience might \I thought have known the lay of the land with Twitter etc.

If he wishes to carry on working I'm sure he'll find a new position.
If there was a moderator who repeatedly moderated according to their opinion instead of the Site Rules then they would no longer be a moderator.
Thanks for the part answer. I'm not really sure whether I'd prefer it to be one Mod or a Mod-wide problem, TBH.
I am inclined to agree with the BA here (now I can see it!) - quoting Shakespere to make a point is, in my view, a very long stretch to be considered a racist observation.

I can only assume, as I have already said, that there is more to this than meets the eye.
Well are we sure Shakespeare wasn't a known racist?
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A 3rd WW could just be started via Twitter, crazy!
I think to quote someone out of context then you're implying your own context. Was it racial? It seems some took it that way.
"A 3rd WW could just be started via Twitter, crazy!"

Nonsense, half of the users have crippling anxiety like they could get out the house and go to war.
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POTUS Looks healthy (and orange) to me TD
TheDevil - // Well are we sure Shakespeare wasn't a known racist? //

As I pointed out earlier, Shakespeare was absolutely a racist, but that was in keeping with the times in which he lived, and the people to whom he wished to appeal with his plays.

Elizabethan society was suspicious of Moors and Jews, and Shakespeare reflected that attitude in his writing, and his treatment of characters like Othello and Shylock.

But that was a different time, and being 'racist' was not an issue.

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