You wouldn't trust her to edit the school magazine
Posted Fri Sep 1 21:53:02 BST 2000 by Justin
In case no-one's seen this yet:
Sue Robinson's letter from Radio Times, 2-8 September 2000:
"Why launch our preview of the new TV season with a show that's 35 years old? Because look at the pisspoor competition. A new generation of young viewers is about to discover the joy of Thunderbirds. Because youngsters will say, "Mummy, mummy, who's that funny puppet on the front of Britain's brightest TV listings magazine - other listings magazines are available but they're even ropier". Because there'll be all sorts of merchandise for Christmas (not least a BBC book by Alison Graham published at £19.99 that reveals hundreds of facts that everyone fucking knows). But really because our office of cunting yes-men and women have been talking about it, knowing that they'll be written about in this hateful piece of pretend-compassion for our readers. In other words, Thunderbirds is back on BBC2 because we, the Radio Times, are brilliant. The sight of a roomful of clueless, pigshit-thick third-class Oxbridge graduates and failed Daily Mail gossip columnists going "yes m'lady" was such that, at one point, I couldn't tell if they were talking about Thunderbirds, or talking to me!
But they aren't a bunch of puppets, believe you me! Our preview begins on page 16, and probably ends halfway down the same page.
Please write to us - we really despise you, but you'll keep on buying us because we still print increasingly shrunken Radio 4 listings.
You are all fuckers - goodbye
Sue Robinson
Editor Of The Year (General Interest Magazines)
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Posted By Peter Ohwhateveritwas on Fri Sep 1 22:04:51 BST 2000:
but you'll keep on buying us because we still print increasingly shrunken Radio 4 listings.
Do you by RT for the Radio 4 listings then? For me, the point of R4 is the sense of suspense - you just don't know if the next programme is going to be a godawful drama or or a mind-numbing attempt at topical comedy. They always keep you guessing.
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Posted By Justin on Fri Sep 1 22:59:30 BST 2000:
>Do you by RT for the Radio 4 listings then?
They just know that's a sizeable amount of their audience. Mind you, I'm still all in favour of radio listings.
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Posted By Al on Fri Sep 1 23:08:24 BST 2000:
Oo-er. Radio 4.
<runs away>
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Posted By John! on Sat Sep 2 14:36:31 BST 2000:
I remember the days when the Radio Times was actually a respectable magazine.
Wow...how long ago was that?
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Posted By subbes on Sat Sep 2 18:12:38 BST 2000:
Probably when it was actually about the radio.
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Posted By Rodney Marsh on Mon Sep 4 03:13:40 BST 2000:
surely it never was!
i don't read it anymore, i get the daily express tv guide. it has accurate horoscopes
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Posted By subbes on Mon Sep 4 03:45:15 BST 2000:
Radio Times.
Well, it were either about the radio, or some very well disguised historical magazine.
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Posted By Rodney Marsh on Mon Sep 4 03:58:27 BST 2000:
could've been a coincedence
we used to have to buy them AND the tv times
how things have changed
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Posted By TVOD on Mon Sep 4 09:04:15 BST 2000:
Where would the British stairlift industry be without the Radio Times and its unstinting advertising support?
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