David Frost Dead

[Pickman's model]

that was the life that was

rip

 

[yardbird]

'That was the week that was' cut a swath through the establishment.

This really was class Frostie

RIP

 

[Thora]

He's was an abysmal "journalist" even for a BBC journalist, there's a reason why he was one of the few people who could get an interview with Blair.

That stupid play/film casts him as the only man who could have put Nixon on the spot, when in reality any idiot could have done it.

I didn't know anything about him or the interview before watching the film, and thought he came across as a lightweight out of his depth who only got lucky due to Nixon being a drunk.

 

[elbows]

They did shred the home secretary quite well in a sketch on This Was The Week That Was in 1963.

 

[William of Walworth]

Nixon being a drunk.

Nixon's safely and legally dead, so I suppose it's safe to ask, was Nixon really a drunk?

How much?

Suppose I should actually watch the intyerview and film before I ask that mind you

 

[Sprocket.]

When Mick Farren died a few weeks back I spent some time looking for this, because I remember the outrage it caused and I hope when Frost arrives wherever he goes Mick and his mates are there to greet him.

 

[audiotech]

Are yes, the "Yippies", most of whom became as "successful", in one way or another, as David Frost did. I was only thinking last week how they were gonna prize the microphone out of his dead hand."That was the Week That Was" then.

Edit: Larry King next candidate?

 

[Sprocket.]

Are yes, the "Yippies", most of whom became as "successful", in one way or another, as David Frost did. I was only thinking last week how they were gonna prize the microphone out of his dead hand."That was the Week That Was" then.

Edit: Larry King next candidate?

Or Esther Rantzen?
Yes, yippies middle class idealists. Same fruit, same root, different tree.

 

[audiotech]

Esther Rantzen?

Isn't Rantzen persona non grata already with the "fear" that her "life's work" career could be "destroyed"?

Edit: Still breathing though.

 

[ayatollah]

My memory banks aren't what they used to be - but I distinctly remember Frost using his show, in the late 60's/early 70's ? (same series he used to de-gut Savundra and the farcical "Yippies) to pillory a group of workers then on national strike (the power workers ?) . Frost packed the audience with baying right wingers - leading to a physical attack on one of the workers' representatives on camera . A real media lynching. Anyone got a video of that shameful episode to load up here ?

The "yippies" episode was soooo stage managed. They knew the Yippies would take over the studio - and had a spare studio on standby - complete with a right wing "commentator" to do a "moral panic" diatribe about the danger to our way of life of these Yippie types. The supreme irony is that the Yippie "leader/guru ", Jerry Rubin , was only a few years later reborn as a rich trader on Wall Street !!!! (Maybe he was in "deep cover" all along - and helped bring about the 2007 Great Crash ! -- cunning stuff .)

 

[editor]

That stupid play/film casts him as the only man who could have put Nixon on the spot, when in reality any idiot could have done it.

Except no other 'idiot' managed to do it.

 

[redsquirrel]

Except no other 'idiot' managed to do it.

Because he was willing to pay Nixon shit loads, and like the I posted review says

Nixon was already dead in the water—convicted by his own words in White House transcripts to the point where even his Republican allies had long deserted him.

 

[editor]

Because he was willing to pay Nixon shit loads, and like the I posted review says

And Frost funded the project himself.

 

[redsquirrel]

So we should give him credit for being such an egotist that he was willing to donate money to a scumbag like Nixon? Or are you trying to claim that Frost was a decent journalist?

 

[editor]

So we should give him credit for being such an egotist that he was willing to donate money to a scumbag like Nixon?

Sorry, but I can't keep up with your levels of hate and vitriol.

I'd rather listen to the opinions of people who knew the man.

Tony Hall, the BBC’s Director-General, added: "You couldn't write the history of broadcasting today without realising the huge influence David had on it.
"From satire to comedy to the big political interviews, for more than 50 years he brought us the history of the world we live in today, that's the mark of the man.”

John Cleese, the comedian whose career was effectively launched by The Frost Report, said: "He was always fun and kind and interesting and I never heard him make a mean comment about anyone.
"I owe a great deal of my professional career to David and I am very grateful for what he did for me. Life is going to feel rather diminished by the loss of his welcoming, cheery and optimistic voice."

Jeremy Paxman, the Newsnight presenter, said: “I'll never forget the thrill of first watching That Was The Week That Was and suddenly realising that TV didn't have to be pompous and deferential.
“Frostie may not have invented the interview. But he took it to places it had never been before. He was a one-off.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/...rost-dies-of-heart-attack-on-cruise-ship.html

 

[butchersapron]

Sounds like the worst sort of people you should listen to for a critical view of his work.

 

[editor]

Sounds like the worst sort of people you should listen to for a critical view of his work.

I am sorry that they don't come up to scratch for your tastes. I'll be sure to dismiss all their words instantly.

 

[butchersapron]

I am sorry that they don't come up to scratch for your tastes. I'll be sure to dismiss all their words instantly.

Don't be daft. Basic standards dictate that you don't ask good mates of someone to give a properly critical views of their work - or you end up with the above fluff.

 

[redsquirrel]

Sorry, but I can't keep up with your levels of hate and vitriol.

I'd rather listen to the opinions of people who knew the man.

Wow a load of bubble liberals praising one of their own, what a surprise.

Do you think that Frost was a good journalist, a good interviewer?

 

[editor]

Do you think that Frost was a good journalist, a good interviewer?

He stuck me as a decent enough jobbing journalist/presenter who had his moments, and equally he produced some shite as well.

I don't he deserves to dismissed and derided in the manner that you're doing straight after his death.

 

[Sprocket.]

Strange that his passing came on the same night that giant of light entertainment, Keith Lemon took over through the fucking keyhole.

 

[butchersapron]

He stuck me as a decent enough jobbing journalist/presenter who had his moments, and equally he produced some shite as well.

I don't he deserves to dismissed and derided in the manner that you're doing straight after his death.

Thing is, he was derided in life for a) buying interviews b) allowing the people he paid to be interviewed off the hook and c) settling for and seeking out any old shit that would make him money - even after he was beyond being financially secure.

 

[editor]

Thing is, he was derided in life for a) buying interviews b) allowing the people he paid to be interviewed off the hook and c) settling for and seeking out any old shit that would make him money - even after he was beyond being financially secure.

If you're going to damn someone for choosing to keep on working once they've reached a point of being financially secure, then you've sure got a lot of damning coming up. It's really piss weak point. Presumably he enjoyed what he did and chose to keep on doing it.

 

[butchersapron]

If you're going to damn someone for choosing to keep on working once they've reached a point of being financially secure, then you've sure got a lot of damning coming up. It's really piss weak point. Presumably he enjoyed what he did and chose to keep on doing it.

I don't care if he did or not. You said people shouldn't damn him for paying for interviews, being a shit interviewer and producing reams of shit immediately after his death. I pointed out these were long standing criticisms of the man - going back nearly 40 years - rather than throwing dirt on his grave.

 

[editor]

You said people shouldn't damn him for paying for interviews, being a shit interviewer and producing reams of shit immediately after his death.

I didn't actually, but there you go.

Anyway, I'm done, so I'll let you all go back to all the post-death hating, deriding and dismissing.

 

[Ax^]

wedl

I don't care if he did or not. You said people shouldn't damn him for paying for interviews, being a shit interviewer and producing reams of shit immediately after his death.

tis a bit much to blame him for what came after his heartattack

 

[RedDragon]

RIP Frosty

 

[Zabo]

Frost/Nixon. No not really. Nixon was already a multiple car crash after Woodward and Bernstein had done the real work.

In the past 24 hours I have heard the following said about him. "A World Superstar" Michael Grade. "A God" Bonnie Greer. "A World Icon". A sycophant trying to get a mention on the radio.

I hear that naming-branding every programme after yourself is going to become fashionable. Watch out for Paxman's Newsnight or Humphrys Today as well as Russell Brand's Guardian.

I'll know when the rot as truly set in when Urban becomes Editor's Urban75

 

[Ax^]

just imagine the thread when parkie pops his clogs

 

[Zabo]

I dread the thought Ax. We will be assailed by every friggin' cricketer with a thick as soup Yorkshire accent.