Comments on booming back: I'm Unkie Dave, and I'm a newsaholic

Congrats. Although I dipped my toe into Facebook I...

2009-12-30T11:48:32.324Z

Congrats. Although I dipped my toe into Facebook I was immediately turned off by the "just had an enormous dump" / "never drinking beer" immediacy of drivel that was poured into the flow in gallons from people I have know or know well yet only communicate with me through one-sided comments on the last five minutes of their life. I gave up when people would not attend functions I had emailed them or talked directly to them about would not turn up because it did not appear on Facebook. I am glad to be free.

Interesting post Dave. Don't have much to add,...

2009-12-30T11:04:12.477Z

Interesting post Dave. Don't have much to add, but still!
Hilarious sky staff motto!

perhaps you should move to the midlands, where there is no real sense of urgency in the longford leader...front page articles have been: Turf stolen from bog!, and an article on how longford missed Jedward on the Late Late Toy show thanks to a power outing...

You'd like Sky News' internal staff motto;...

2009-12-28T23:17:16.681Z

You'd like Sky News' internal staff motto;

"Sky News, Never Wrong for Long".

Print it first, retract and clarify later.

Their sheer desire to beat every other news source is incredible, and the back slapping beating anyone else to a "breaking news" is absurd.

Incidentally I saw Rupert Murdoch's obituary on the server this week...