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Riley reinstated at the Echo |
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Thursday, 11 October 2007 |
The Echo’s longest serving journalist, arts correspondent Joe Riley, who was suspended last week, has been reinstated and How-Do understands the matter is over….internally at least….
To recap. Joe Riley attended the premiere of King Cotton in Liverpool a fortnight or so ago and prepared for the play with a couple of refreshers. He subsequently dozed off and started snoring whereupon in the interval (or half time as it’s commonly referred to in Liverpool) the play's writer Jimmy McGovern had a go at him.
 Riley
How-Do understands that the consensus view that seems to have prevailed is that both sides agree Riley was out of order and the incident provided a ‘wake-up call’ for the region’s best known arts correspondent. Equally McGovern, although no great fan of Riley, felt that perhaps the hack had suffered sufficiently and dismissal would have been unnecessarily harsh….so all’s well now, isn’t it?
Well….apart from the future earning prospects of two of the complainants involved in this riveting affair. Two of those who contacted Machray to complain about Riley’s behaviour are believed to be one of the city’s PR ‘operators about town’ and a spokesperson for a public sector arts body: both of whom to a great degree rely upon coverage in the two daily Trinity organs for their livelihoods….which could prove difficult now their names are allegedly “muck” in the eyes of Old Hall Street’s finest.
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