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David Frost Dead

if it's been posted here, you can be sure someone will have edited wiki faster. there's a lot more people editing wiki...
 
Don't know where they got it from but the first edit was at 10.22 which is quite a bit faster than the media sources I can find.
 
peterkro said:
Don't know where they got it from but the first edit was at 10.22 which is quite a bit faster than the media sources I can find.
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Well as a source they say it was announced on Al Jazeera. Considering he has worked for Al Jazeera in recent years, it would not be surprising if they had a very good source. Plus as he seems to have have the heart attack last night there was plenty of time for the news to spread around the usual circles.
 
Wiki hadn't edited the first time I checked a few minutes before this thread was started.

RIP
 
weltweit said:
That is a bit strong no? what did he do to deserve that?
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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.
 
redsquirrel said:
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.
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True. He was well overrated, went soft many decades ago and the high praise lavished on his interviews speaks volumes about the low standards of TV grillings of the powerful. Although there is still something amusing about watching him question Thatcher about the Belgrano and asking Blair if he prayed together with Bush, both of which feature in the BBC tribute video that now accompanies their article about his death.
 
redsquirrel said:
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.
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Really? I thought Frost/Nixon showed him as a lightweight and a sucker, who Nixon played like a cheap violin.
 
redsquirrel said:
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.
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You must have seen a different film than the one I did.
Frost doesn't come out of it well at all
 
How so? He comes off as a prat but as a prat that got his man, he "forced" Nixon into admitting his involvement with Watergate.

And either the Oliver Pratt or Sam Rockwell character even says something along the lines of "only Frost could have done what he did"

I guess I just see if differently to you and Idris, but I'm not the only one.
Frost/Nixon is unsatisfying even if, like me, you’re a lifelong aficionado of Nixon-bashing. Morgan makes him out to be a Great White Whale, but when he sat down with Frost, 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. And with selective editing, Morgan makes it seem as if Frost got Nixon to admit more than he actually did. The original Watergate interview is now on DVD, and there are self-exculpatory escape clauses in every interminable, circumlocutory utterance. When Frost read aloud from the White House transcripts, Nixon’s eyes darted around as he searched his brain for linguistic loopholes. In Frost/Nixon, Langella’s heavy features move slowly; he seems to be plumbing the depths of his soul and glimpsing, for an instant, the abyss. Alas, the shit that dribbles from Langella’s mouth is still Tricky Dick’s.
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EDIT it was the Sam Rockwell (at least according to IMDB)
You know the first and greatest sin of the deception of television is that it simplifies; it diminishes great, complex ideas, stretches of time; whole careers become reduced to a single snapshot. At first I couldn't understand why Bob Zelnick was quite as euphoric as he was after the interviews, or why John Birt felt moved to strip naked and rush into the ocean to celebrate. But that was before I really understood the reductive power of the close-up, because David had succeeded on that final day, in getting for a fleeting moment what no investigative journalist, no state prosecutor, no judiciary committee or political enemy had managed to get; Richard Nixon's face swollen and ravaged by loneliness, self-loathing and defeat. The rest of the project and its failings would not only be forgotten, they would totally cease to exist.
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pass the sick bucket. I'm not sure how you can say that isn't incredibly sympathetic to Frost (if not downright hagiographcial).
 
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