Deliciously painful

Great post

I do think paxo is geting soft with age though.  5 years ago our mrs Smith would be dead.

Mista h

It does make you wonder where Dave & Co are going

It seems they are negotiating a real rough & rocky road & no one ever thought it was going to be easy, but are lately tripping up at every turn.  (did I say U turn)  

Sending someone like Chloe Smith to justify the latest change in policy - especially with Paxman - is all & more the press are saying - cowardice & bad (crass) management. 

Better risk assessment & banana skin avoidance is for sure required & might be a good idea for a crash course - like PDQ tomorrow morning, first thing. 

I think she handled herself pretty well

Given the impossible situation she was in I thought she came out of it with some dignity intact. Paxman was like a cat playing with a mouse though.

Richard-

URL ALERT  URL ALERT

Why the double standard?

There's never been a URL ban. There are links all over the place. I've posted a few myself. Naim don't like links to other manufacturers or other controversial sites.

I'd say Newsnight doesn't fall into either category.

+1.  If I have paraphrased correctly, the rules thread in the FAQs says no links to: 

1) "For Sale" web pages,

2) "specific retailer's websites",

3) "commercial hi-fi or other manufacturer's websites", and to

4) "discussions posted on other forums".

For #2, the intent was to encourage use of the "Find a Retailer" web page, but that link (http://www.naim-audio.com/distrib/dealer.html) has been broken for quite a while.

Marc - with all due respect, I do not agree that Richard is applying a double standard.  If you pointed out an example of a link that breaks one of these rules, I am sure he would take it down.

The rules also say:

"...'Live' links to other forums or sites may be edited so as to require some effort to follow them."

In other words, we are allowed to post enough keywords to help folks figure out how to get there from here using a search engine.  In my opinion, this is a fine compromise.

Sorry if I am coming across as pedantic. This topic comes up regularly, and since Marc is clearly not alone in his frustration, I thought it was worth taking a shot at clarification.  If instead I have made things even more confusing, then Richard -- please delete this post.

Thanks!

Hook

And that poor woman, trying to look after the interests of my fine city.

I think it's refreshing in these days of the ghastly dumbing-down in the media that we still have the forthright, probing Jeremy Paxman to ask the tough questions and keep asking them until he gets an answer.

Talking of media dumbing-down, you gotta love 'The Sun' for this cracking headline.

John.

I thought that was a great headline too.

Funnier still, when I told my partner, she looked mildly blank and said 'is that some song I'm supposed to know'.

Ah.

I'm confused. I don't see how a link to an article in the Guardian comes under any of those categories. Are we talking about the same thing?

Hi Tom -

You are correct -- your Guardian link did not violate any forum rule that I could find. Sorry I did not make that clear in my post.

I think we are talking about the same thing.  We both agree that there is no blanket URL ban, and that only certain types of links are prohibited. 

Marc thought that a "double standard" was being applied here, but after reading the rules, I did not see how the example of your Guardian link supported his claim.

ATB.

Hook