Monday 20 December 2010

And now Brian Hanraha-hanrahan's dead too!

Brian Hanrahan was a decent, reliable BBC journalist who made his name covering the Falklands war, and was on the scene for Tiananmen Square (oh dear, that's me blocked from China).

He was immortalised as the face of churnalism - perhaps slightly unfairly but irresistibly by Chris Morris in The Day Today:

3 comments:

neal said...

Peter, you've lost the News!

The Plashing Vole said...

Damn. Wish I'd remembered that one for the title of this post.

neal said...

i can't believe you didn't put this one up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ErOz3_ARgI

Ich Nichten Lickten.