tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704425219270767105.post7490584417978953419..comments2024-02-27T10:23:30.029+01:00Comments on Conductor: Oh, dear! or not Oh, dear! That is the questionSusie Malletthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05134263396254528737noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704425219270767105.post-10980046954861219732011-01-03T22:10:50.872+01:002011-01-03T22:10:50.872+01:00I have just spotted this. Yes, Oh dear, with mitga...I have just spotted this. Yes, Oh dear, with mitgating factors TBIC.<br /><br />A coupleof things come to mind.<br /><br />1. I cannot help but feel that Buddy Bear's has to no small part been the srchitect of its own destruction in its wholly unsuccessful 20+ years' struggle to gain state funding, with the naturee of the press coverage that it generates being an important factor in this. No wonder Northern Ireland's professional establishment is so wholly alientated. It is not enough to generate a wonderful human story: much better press briefing and media management are required if this is not to shoot you in the foot along the way. BB is not of course not unique in this, but it has been at it longer than most.<br />2. I cannot recall when I first heard the term 'the World Famous' used in this context, or by whom. It certainly has had wide currency in CE. Amongst those whom I have moved amongst over the last 20+ years it has been widely used, to cover all sorts of people and phenomena in CE (rather like MM). Like you, I suspect that the WF-words may have originated in the British press, through reporters or sub-editors seeking to add a little status to a local story. It was certainly, however, picked up and used very early on, self-referentially, by the PAI and quickly migrated into Hungarian as világhirű. The amusing, thing about such self-referncing is that to refer to oneself in this way in English, other than ironically, is a joke. It is always a wry pleasure to hear aspects of CE mentioned in these termsAndrew Suttonhttp://conductive-world.infonoreply@blogger.com