[peel] Re: VLS

[Simon Melville]

You have TWO national newspaper columns and you decide to attack John Peel of all people?!
 
Let us also hold the following against VLS:
1) Very poor televison programmes, sporadically shown on Channel 4 and/or BBC2 (can't quite remember which).
2) Very poor hair.
3) Piss-poor "Way of the World" bit in Private Eye which he actually re-writes odd newspaper stories from around the world allegedly sent in to him and gives them funny endings and turns-of-phrase.
 
Come to think of it, apart from point 3 you could hold that all against Peel if you so wished.

garry_latham <garry_latham@...> wrote:
--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, simon b <simon@b...> wrote:
> 
> On Monday, February 9, 2004, at 11:28  am, peel@yahoogroups.com 
wrote:
> 
> > What a fantasic article about Mr Peel (nee Ravenscroft) in the
> > Evening Standard this week.
> > "like Tony Blair his' pretty straight kinda guy' persona rings 
false
> > because behind the interminably wry, self effacing exterior lies 
a
> > cynical oppurtunist with a major pulic school education,
> > whose "hipness" doesnt prevent him from presenting insincere, 
insipid
> > hinterland-before-senility trash, nor voicing just about any and
> > every TV ad and docu soap series hes offered"
> 
> 
> This is Victor Lewis-Smith criticising someone for working on 
popular 
> television in an article he's writing in *the* *evening* 
*standard*?
> 
> Oh, and Peel turns down adverts all the time - there's a lucrative 
> trade in 'sounds a bit like peel voiceovers'  (see: pepparami, for 
> example) picking up the work he refuses on ethical  grounds
> 
> >

It is also on record that John only does voiceovers on ads for 
products that he uses.



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