Comments on: @StephenFry on journalists’ own ‘venal and disgusting’ use of expenses

By: From the Online » Leopards&spots? Expenses à la 1938

From the Online » Leopards&spots? Expenses à la 1938 — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:29:25 +0000

[...] Stephen Fry might possibly have alienated a few of his followers with his ‘venal and disgusting’ accusation when this whole Expenses marlarkey first started. Apparently, Fry said, journalists have their [...]

By: phil_style

phil_style — Fri, 15 May 2009 15:57:42 +0000

I agree with Fry overall. so his compairson wasn’t perfectly apt. Comparisons never are.

Fry’s overall thrust is that this whole ‘scandal’ (with whatever stupid “gate” the media wants to attach to it,in their typically unintelligent fashion) is a distraction from caring about the real political issues of our time.

By: Second dose of Stephen Fry: transcript from Digital Britain - ‘I don’t need to be reskilled into anything’ | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog

Tue, 12 May 2009 11:12:49 +0000

[...] Another dose of Fry this morning, in an earlier post we reproduced yesterday’s comments to the BBC about journalists and expense…. [...]

By: JD

JD — Tue, 12 May 2009 10:40:19 +0000

Whatever and whenever there is abuse of expenses claims, the difference here is that I don’t pay journalists expenses. I DO however pay MPs expenses through taxes.

No-one should be allowed to profit through their expenses. MPs especially. There is a complete lack of transparency, honesty and morality here from the people in whom we choose to represent us.

Comparisons with others are irrelevant and distracting from the real issue.

MPs should be above this whereas in fact some (if not many) appear to see it as a way of simply and covertly supplementing income.

Disgraceful