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14th November 2006, 6:17pm
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#1 | | Registered User Editor
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| GUST interview with NUS Scotland President
As part of GUST's (Glasgow University Student Television) NUS referendum news special they've interviewed James Alexander, the current NUS Scotland president. Clicky here.
I feel dirty after watching it, but there again, I have an intense dislike of eerily smooth politicians (and indeed the NUS).
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14th November 2006, 6:36pm
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| Re: GUST interview with NUS Scotland President
Crock of shite.
He's fiddling with his hands too much, makes it seem like he's lying... 
Incidentally I'm not even half way through watching!
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14th November 2006, 6:39pm
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#3 | | ShakingTheDisease SuperMod
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| Re: GUST interview with NUS Scotland President
Which QM officers wanted to join NUSSL!?
Interviewer coulda pushed harder, for sure.
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14th November 2006, 6:43pm
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I haven't seen it, I'm just going to watch and James Alexander is a labour student iirc but he is genuinely nice and is committed to student rights and development.
(That doesn't mean you should join NUS...) | |
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14th November 2006, 6:44pm
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| Re: GUST interview with NUS Scotland President
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Originally Posted by djtoast  Which QM officers wanted to join NUSSL!?
Interviewer coulda pushed harder, for sure. | Come on, this guy doesn't even know if there have been any comparitive studies done to back up his claimes that using NUSSEL will make things cheaper. TWAT.
The only thing he seems to think affiliating will do is give us representation on a national scale. We work perfectly well without them, if it ain't broke - don't fix it!
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14th November 2006, 7:25pm
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#6 | | A Jubilant Mass Editor
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| Re: GUST interview with NUS Scotland President
Missed opportunity to tear the guy into a million tiny pieces, there.
"We don't have a particular political affiliation with any one party."
"FACT ATTACK!"
"Um."
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14th November 2006, 7:29pm
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Originally Posted by Potatojunkie Missed opportunity to tear the guy into a million tiny pieces, there.
"We don't have a particular political affiliation with any one party."
"FACT ATTACK!"
"Um." | I couldn't get the video to play but he didn't actually say that, did he?! | |
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14th November 2006, 7:31pm
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| Re: GUST interview with NUS Scotland President
Yup
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14th November 2006, 7:33pm
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#9 | | A Jubilant Mass Editor
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| Re: GUST interview with NUS Scotland President
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Originally Posted by Vonnie I couldn't get the video to play but he didn't actually say that, did he?! | I forget the exact words he used, but he claimed they have no political allegiance. No one bellowed "FACT ATTACK", sadly.
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14th November 2006, 7:45pm
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Originally Posted by Vonnie I couldn't get the video to play but he didn't actually say that, did he?! | Astoundingly, yes he did.
GUST do try to keep their news reporting as impartial as possible, and leave the opinion and 'hard-hitting' interviews to their feature style shows, as far as I know, and I presume he'd never agree to a Martin Bashir style interview for the 'fact attack' reason alone. | |
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14th November 2006, 10:42pm
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#11 | | Curiouser and curiouser.
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Originally Posted by triggerhappy Astoundingly, yes he did.
GUST do try to keep their news reporting as impartial as possible, and leave the opinion and 'hard-hitting' interviews to their feature style shows, as far as I know, and I presume he'd never agree to a Martin Bashir style interview for the 'fact attack' reason alone. | Thats because a an extension of the SRC, the media(Guardian, GUST, Subcity, GUM) aren't allowed to hold a politcal stance on a debate of this nature. Besides, would you really want to listen/read information from a Biased organisation....
but genuinely, we're not allowed to hold a political stance on matters such as these, it would be seen that we might be 'influencing' our audience, and that just wouldn't be fair.
Is James Alexander aware that at present if NUS did get affiliation, the SRC would be buying from NUSSL for..er.. 4 vending machines? cause this video is taking Ages to download properly
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15th November 2006, 7:10pm
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#12 | | I'm A Lumberjack
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| Re: GUST interview with NUS Scotland President
The way he was moving his hands I thought it was Tony Blair that was being interviewed. His answers were quite vauge - Just like most politicians. | |
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