Now I'm no longer on the board I'm probably a more useful potential spokesperson (though still mildly terrified of the whole concept ;) )
Chris On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 11:01 AM, Charles Matthews < charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > > On 11 February 2017 at 00:45 David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I suspect we need to build up the UK press corps again. The call comes > maybe every 1-2 years, but when it happens we need people. So if you see an > email come by, you can *SPRING* into action and represent editors on the > BBC ... > > Last night's Newsnight didnt happen, because the Daily Mail bottled it. > Possibly because Alastair Campbell offered to speak up on our behalf, ahem. > I'm regretting I couldn't make it now ... > > So! Who thinks they could do well off the cuff about the view of Wikipedia > editors? I think Lucy would like all your names :-) > > I did some live telly in 2009: see transcript https://en. > wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Charles_Matthews/Interview > > Newsnight being rather late in the day if you want to get a train back to > Cambridge, this was early evening. > > As I recall, getting prepped was serious business, but paid off. If there > is something you want to put across, or even more if you aim to "turn the > tables" by deflecting the argument, you are not going to be successful just > spontaneously. What I said about "come back in a year’s time" was something > I intended to get in. > > But then, I wasn't dealing with an interlocutor advocating solely for the > other side. The Beeb's folk are not so hard to deal with. > > Charles > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk >
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