2023 Celebrity R.I.P. Thread

[vixen1700]

John Pilger, 84. RiP.

[scenario8]

vixen1700 said:

John Pilger, 84. RiP.

Came across as a decent chap. Sad news for the family and what not.

Hadn’t realised he was 84. I guess everyone’s getting older all around me!

[bigothunter]

scenario8 said:

Hadn’t realised he was 84. I guess everyone’s getting older all around me!

Whilst you stay the same age

[119]

Since when did 'journalists' become celebrities?

[Blib]

119 said:

Since when did 'journalists' become celebrities?

Pilger's investigative TV reports were often newsworthy in themselves. He was more than a 'mere' journalist, IMO.

He certainly became a 'personality', back in the day.

[Eric Mc]

119 said:

Since when did 'journalists' become celebrities?

This thread is not just for "celebrities" - despite the title.

It's for any person of significance who passed away in the year. John Pilger was most definitely a person of significance - being a very important investigative journalist who did a lot to expose all sorts of "bad stuff" going on in the world. He is probably most famous for his reporting on the Paul Pot regime in Cambodia.

[Seasonal Hero]

Yep. No argument on this one.

[Seven7]

Paul Pot.

[cuprabob]

Seven7 said:

Paul Pot.

Is that the boy who worked in the phone shop that won the first series of Britain's Got Talent?

[Nethybridge]

Blib said:

Pilger's investigative TV reports were often newsworthy in themselves. He was more than a 'mere' journalist, IMO.

He certainly became a 'personality', back in the day.

I forgot he was Australian, but we can't blame him for that, a campaigner for the far left and
an apologist for that oily weirdo Julian Assange, so some you get wrong.

[Legacywr]

Eric Mc said:

119 said:

Since when did 'journalists' become celebrities?

This thread is not just for "celebrities" - despite the title.

It's for any person of significance who passed away in the year. John Pilger was most definitely a person of significance - being a very important investigative journalist who did a lot to expose all sorts of "bad stuff" going on in the world. He is probably most famous for his reporting on the Paul Pot regime in Cambodia.

Paul Pot, what a nasty bd he was…

[Eric Mc]

Both of them.

Pol Pot

[Petrus1983]

vixen1700 said:

John Pilger, 84. RiP.

I was sad to see this. When the days before the internet, Twitter, TikTok - journalists had to be journalists. I know they certainly do exist now - but he did have a habit of having an insight to global affairs when news wasn't so readily available. RIP.

[gazza285]

Seven7 said:

Paul Pot.

[rjfp1962]

Ugandan athlete Benjamin Kiplagat...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-67853338

[Alickadoo]

scenario8 said:

vixen1700 said:

John Pilger, 84. RiP.

Came across as a decent chap. Sad news for the family and what not.

Hadn’t realised he was 84. I guess everyone’s getting older all around me!

Thinks/thought Putin is a decent bloke.

Thinks/thought Assange is a good bloke.

[FourWheelDrift]

Australian World Championship gold medal winning cyclist Melissa Hoskins, died after being hit by a vehicle driven by her husband World Champion cyclist Rohan Dennis, who has been arrested.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-31/melissa-hos...

[Sheets Tabuer]

Must have really ruined the turkey

[Eric Mc]

Very strange.

Tha will make an interesting documentary on "60 Minutes Australia".

[scenario8]

Alickadoo said:

Thinks/thought Putin is a decent bloke.

Thinks/thought Assange is a good bloke.

Settle on “complex”?