Sky News ‘heckled by me’
Shouty TV hyperbolists Sky News have been 'heckled' by me as they tried to tell a nation in the grip of election fever about today's developments.
The CAPITAL LETTERED BLACK ON YELLOW newsmongers were in the middle of reporting a bewilderingly piffling event as if it was something of genuine importance when a 35-year-old man, believed to be me, began shouting at the television.
As the broadcasting giants endlessly analysed Gordon Brown's speech being interrupted by a heckler, then interviewing the heckler to find out why he was heckling the Prime Minister, the 35-year-old Sky News heckler - me - began not yelling and screaming and going red a bit in the face, in what turned out to be a fruitless attempt to jolt them into reporting some real news by accident.
"I was heckling them because I decided I didn't really agree with what they were doing, reporting about the man who heckled Gordon Brown," the heckler told me in an exclusive live interview.
"Is this what we've come to? Is this really it? God, there's some nodding twerp on there right now, beaming out at the camera in the sort of excitement you'd reserve for extraterrestrials making contact with earth, yet they're merely introducing an item involving Nick Clegg sitting on a plane. Day two. Day two. I don't know if I'll last till the bloody weekend."
The heckler is reported to have stopped the heckling when Sky anchor Jeremy Thompson started interviewing an overly cheerful Michael Howard. Realising it was a Cnutish endeavour to try and hold back the tide, he weeped softly into his keyboard and admitted defeat.
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April 7th, 2010 - 16:47
It just shows how broken our Britain is when people can just start yelling at journalists who aren’t even in the same room and expect to get away with it. It’s political health and safety gone mad, that’s what it is.
April 7th, 2010 - 17:00
I’ve found myself swearing at politicians on The World At One… it’s going to be a long campaign
April 7th, 2010 - 19:15
I keep hoping that I’ll log onto the Guardian website and Andrew Sparrow’s liveblog will be promising to tell me about “…”
Then I’ll switch on the tv and the ticker will likewise be saying “…” over and over again, whilst the screen reveals a floor-level shot of a couple of podgy, white, middle-aged men lying flat out unconscious on the floor.
What’ll have happened? They’ll all have OD’d on election excitement, like the crash after a severe sugar rush.
If they shut the fuck up for a few days, I might even like some of them a bit more.
April 7th, 2010 - 22:25
Only heckling? No punching of the TV in frustration and sheer non-pleasedness?
For shame.
April 8th, 2010 - 08:58
I was restrained from heckling Cameron on telly last night by my lovely lady wife who managed to reduce me from a broiling cauldron of rage to a mere murmuring swear box by pointing out that he couldn’t hear me. Nevertheless, it has to be said, the man is a total and utter… no, I mustn’t. Not until he visits somewhere near me on the campaign trail….