Comments on: Peter Beaumont’s lost tribe ‘controversy’ that wasn’t http://last-straw.net/peter-beaumonts-lost-tribe-controversy-that-wasnt/ The weblog of Christiaan Briggs Sun, 04 Jul 2010 06:53:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Christiaan http://last-straw.net/peter-beaumonts-lost-tribe-controversy-that-wasnt/comment-page-1/#comment-54754 Christiaan Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:23:27 +0000 http://last-straw.net/?p=337#comment-54754 Thanks Karen, the guy’s obviously got his head stuck up his ass. Thanks Karen, the guy’s obviously got his head stuck up his ass.

]]> By: karen poteet http://last-straw.net/peter-beaumonts-lost-tribe-controversy-that-wasnt/comment-page-1/#comment-54752 karen poteet Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:25:21 +0000 http://last-straw.net/?p=337#comment-54752 Thank you for these statements. I was so interested in the story about the uncontacted tribes that I started writing letters as requested by the Survival International website. Imagine my horror "finding out" the story was a hoax. Considering the people I sent the story to, all the letters I'd written, my piqued interest in the existance of uncontacted people, was in question. Now I read that not only is it NOT A HOAX but that Peter Beaumont the party responsible for the start of this rumor refuses to apologize or acknowledge that he misunderstood or deliberatly misquoted Survivals statements about these peoples. How like the British reporters to not take responsibility for the fall out of their careless and relentless reporting of "news." I understand the British press has been hounding and persistantly trying to get a photo of the Fritzl family in Austria. So much so that the Austrian Government has appealed to the British government to restrain their media. To NO AVAIL. I believe in Freedom of the Press, but I also believe in responsible reporting, not carelessly creating a sensation with misquoted headlines, and then refusing to retract or admit fault. The fall out is the responsiblity of the reporter who made the headline. SHAME ON THE BRITISH REPORTERS AND THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT FOR NOT REINING IN THEIR OUT OF CONTROL NEWS HOUNDS. Thank you for these statements. I was so interested in the story about the uncontacted tribes that I started writing letters as requested by the Survival International website. Imagine my horror “finding out” the story was a hoax. Considering the people I sent the story to, all the letters I’d written, my piqued interest in the existance of uncontacted people, was in question. Now I read that not only is it NOT A HOAX but that Peter Beaumont the party responsible for the start of this rumor refuses to apologize or acknowledge that he misunderstood or deliberatly misquoted Survivals statements about these peoples.

How like the British reporters to not take responsibility for the fall out of their careless and relentless reporting of “news.” I understand the British press has been hounding and persistantly trying to get a photo of the Fritzl family in Austria. So much so that the Austrian Government has appealed to the British government to restrain their media. To NO AVAIL. I believe in Freedom of the Press, but I also believe in responsible reporting, not carelessly creating a sensation with misquoted headlines, and then refusing to retract or admit fault. The fall out is the responsiblity of the reporter who made the headline.

SHAME ON THE BRITISH REPORTERS AND THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT FOR NOT REINING IN THEIR OUT OF CONTROL NEWS HOUNDS.

]]> By: Peter Beaumont throws his toys | Last Straw http://last-straw.net/peter-beaumonts-lost-tribe-controversy-that-wasnt/comment-page-1/#comment-54738 Peter Beaumont throws his toys | Last Straw Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:56:53 +0000 http://last-straw.net/?p=337#comment-54738 [...] Peter Beaumont up to? First he’s cynically trying to sell papers by drumming up controversy where there was none, now he’s threatening to sue Survival International, a charity, for calling him on his [...] […] Peter Beaumont up to? First he’s cynically trying to sell papers by drumming up controversy where there was none, now he’s threatening to sue Survival International, a charity, for calling him on his […]

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