This is an email sent to Media House at, by chance, exactly 13:00 today. No response yet. I’m worried about Amanda. And it’s not like the Moorland Association to be so silent this close to the Inglorious 12th.
Hi!
My name is Dr Mark Avery, I am a blogger. This is a media enquiry about the Moorland Association because you are named as their press contacts on their website. I phoned the Media House number and was asked to email you both, so I am.
I’m not a great fan of the Moorland Association but this is a straight request for information to put on my blog, or in the absence of any reply I will mention that on my blog. Many thanks.
Here are my questions:
- the Moorland Association Twitter account has disappeared and it looks as though it has been removed by Twitter – would you please comment on whether it is coming back or not?
- the Moorland Association website is hardly active at the moment – would you like to comment please?
- it’s not like Amanda Anderson to be so quiet in the run up to the Inglorious 12th. I (genuinely) hope she is OK. I assume she is still working for the Moorland Association? Would you like to comment please?
- Would you like to make any other comments?
- Please send me any Moorland Association press releases as I would love to feature them on my blog.
The chap I spoke to at Media House told me, rather ambitiously I thought, that you would get back to me straight away. That would be kind.
Thank you in advance
Yes I too am no fan of the Moorland Association, the.members, almost all of which, enjoy shooting and killing our wildlife for fun. Because of this, if the organisation is in trouble, I have to say I trust it is nothing trivial.
Surely you should have referred your enquiries to the GWCT fact-checking website.
Some examples. Is the Moorland Assoc alive and well? Have they, on their own volition, closed their Twitter account? Are there now so many hen harriers flying around northern grouse moors that their mission is complete? If pigs could fly, should they be shot?
To repeat an oft-used phrase…F**k ’em!
Not a huge fan of the MA to say the least, essentially a bunch of landowners/tenants in a lobbying group for grouse shooting. There have been a couple of news posts on their website recently but yes they seem a bit quiet in the run up t the inglorious 12th—— good.
Perhaps we should be getting an investigative journalist to look at the links between various folk on their “board” and Hen Harrier persecution events/sites.
I don’t worry at all about Amanda, whilst she is a great improvement on their previous mouth piece as a human being she still represents the unacceptable in the uplands.
I’d not be sorry to see them all go!
Paul – there aren’t that many people who remember Martin G. i quite liked the gact that when he appeared in the media he often said several things that were damaging to his own side. Amanda slips up rarely which is why ‘If we let the harriers in…’ is such a prized quote.
Indeed I can remember when we made the TV inside out piece about Bowland Betty when we found out when they had finished filming Simon Warwick and I that they would be off to interview Martin G and the Bolton Abbey head keeper Paul Welby. I said to Danny Savage if You don’t get a straight answer from Martin G ask the question until you do because he will give you good TV. He of course went bang and talked about killing harriers not being on a par with rape and pillage, making a complete prat of himself and the MA. I think it was his last public assignment!
Reminds me of a story my late friend Pat Lyons once told me. He used to work in a planting team for FC with a then part time gamekeeper who loved to go the hare coursing at Altcar. Pat said to the keeper that his preferred sport was this a field 1 mile across, surrounded by a huge fence with big pop holes and a small man sized box in the middle. Said man was pushed out of box electronically and when half way to a pop hole 2 hungry Siberian Tigers were released. All about the skill of turning the man not the kill! The keeper got the point. I’d be happy to see the MA board take it in turns to be pushed out of that box, although it would not be about the kill.