Re: Pinter's speech

--- Peter J Richardson <[email protected]>
wrote:
> > I've been wondering, did this story get media
> > attention in the UK and US?
> 
> Well obviously given the source of your link it got
> the attention of the BBC. :-)
> 

LOL! Fair enough! :^)

> It probably did not get as much attention however as
> Roy Keane signing for Glasgow Celtic today, or some
> oil 
> processing plant unleashing the clouds of Mordor
> over London at the weekend.
> 
> I'd suggest that the Nobel prize people have got
> more coverage in years gone by, when the likes of
> Yassar Arafat 
> and Gerry Adams were nominated for the Peace
> Prize........and they probably lost the Nobel prize
> a certain 
> amount of credibility at the same time.
> 

The Peace Prize is a heavily political one, that tends
to highlight cpntemporary political agendas rather
than anything else. In fact, ever since Kissinger was
awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, satire has lost its
meaning... 

Still, this is the winner of the Literature Prize, not
the Peace one. A more "technical" choice. That's why I
would consider his speech an important one. 


		
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