Turkmen prez sacks 30 for TV news cockroach outrage

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Mike Richards

Cockroach +1 #

Posted Friday 22nd February 2008 11:47 GMT

And I thought it was only Channel 4 who decided it makes sense to repeat the news.

And who doesn't think a cockroach would do a better job of the news than GMTV?

Anonymous Coward

And... #

Posted Friday 22nd February 2008 11:47 GMT

Niyazov also fairly (in)famously sacked the TV weathermen because they kept getting the weather forecast wrong.

Which, given that Ashgabat sits on the edge of a huge desert (the Karakum) is quite an achievement.

What a splendid name #

Posted Friday 22nd February 2008 12:20 GMT

I hope he is every bit as entertaining as his predecessor Niyazov or "Turmenbashi" (Father of the Turkmen) who died in 2006 (not 1996 as stated in the article). He was my favourite dictator - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saparmurat_Niyazov

Tim Schomer

So this is what REALLY happens... #

Posted Friday 22nd February 2008 12:20 GMT

... When you get bugs in a programme

The on with the pretty long sleeves please...

Jason Aspinall

pmpl #

Posted Friday 22nd February 2008 12:20 GMT

A tad ott, one thinks?

Anonymous Coward

cockroaches #

Posted Friday 22nd February 2008 14:45 GMT

One recalls that Mandelstam ran into troubles after referring to a certain Georgian as having "cockroach whiskers"

David Wiernicki

La coucaracha, la coucaracha... #

Posted Friday 22nd February 2008 16:16 GMT

...ya no puede caminar...

Stu

You televised a cockroach?!? #

Posted Friday 22nd February 2008 21:23 GMT

I'll squash you like BUGS!

No coat needed - it's warm today...

Gav

I, for one, welcome our new cockroach overlords #

Posted Friday 22nd February 2008 21:34 GMT

Next week's news will be presented by the cockroaches. Expect lots of aimless tracking shots and closeups of sugar bowls.

Paris cos she's got an earwig in there.

PunkTiger

Standard Operating Procedure? #

Posted Friday 22nd February 2008 21:34 GMT

So, a newsroom in Turkmenistan was bugged. I guess Mr. Berdymukhamedov was upset that it wasn't the State's bug.

/Mine's the tan one with the red plaid lining.

PHIL RADELAT

Where's The Footage? #

Posted Saturday 23rd February 2008 17:28 GMT

Damn, I wanna see THAT!

Anonymous Coward

RE: La coucaracha, la coucaracha... #

Posted Sunday 24th February 2008 18:25 GMT

...Porque no tiene, porque le falta, marihuana que fumar!

lglethal

OK from a dictators point of view... #

Posted Monday 25th February 2008 08:58 GMT

I can understand sacking the cleaners, the directors, maybe even the news crew and the camera guys, but why the journalists?

They just wrote the story's i doubt they had much to do with the cockroach!

PS Why would you sack people over ONE cockroach? A true dictator's lack of being in touch with reality me thinks...

Anonymous Coward

He should have closed... #

Posted Monday 25th February 2008 09:01 GMT

...the staff cafeteria instead.

Mine's the dirty overalls hanging on the peg.

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