Andy Kershaw

[thinkingthinkingthinking]

... one can see he is on the way to making serious changes in his
life.

But he has inadvertently revealed he still has quite a distance to go.
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Thanks, what you say is interesting. I guess there are many of us who
have personality and post-trauma difficulties, of whom the same can be
said. I think that if we are making serious efforts towards positive
changes, then positive support tempered by sensible criticism is a much
better response, for the sake of all concerned, than the continued
vigorous condemnation shown by some of the more vociferous commentators
on that article.

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Tom Roche <troche@...> wrote:
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> I have a friend who works at the Kansas City Star who manages a US
> TV/Media website called tvbarn. Every now and then I write him
> back-channel to say hey, what did you think about, say comment number
> 26 by so-and-so concerting that recent article you posted. And he
> always messages back to simply say: "Never read any comments. They
> will give you cancer." And he has a point, 'cos here in the US the
> comments section of any news article - and especially political
> pieces -  can be woefully embarrassing displays of uncivil
> cluelessness.
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> But I have to say, I read all the comments to Kershaw's
> blame-everyone-but-me essay in the Independent. Sadly, sometimes
> someone like Kershaw has some valid points to make, but then proceeds
> to verbally pound the reader into submission making said valid
> points. He didn't step back and take a deep breath and look at the
> article as a whole, big-picture. He tried to say he is now a changed
> man, a now-harmless puppy, yet he went on and on bitterly stirring
> new conspiracy theories.
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> A number of the commenters pick up on this. And others just look at
> his point-by-point (by point by point by point by point) arguments
> and rally to his side.
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> He claims to be a changed man, but he doth protest waaaaay too much
> in my view. Peel himself told me Kershaw was an amazingly good DJ
> with a shockingly serious temper.
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> He has only been out of jail a little over a year, but has a lifetime
> of issues to make right. I wish Andy well. Reading his Independent
> piece, one can see he is on the way to making serious changes in his
> life.
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> But he has inadvertently revealed he still has quite a distance to go.
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> tom in atlanta
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