Articles printed in The Eye are written by a staff of contributors and edited by the multi-award successful former BBC information and present affairs reporter, Phil Parry.
Publicity in regards to the presenter of BBC Cymru Wales At the moment (WT) thanking well being employees for saving her father-in-law’s life places centre stage unique revelations on The Eye.
Lucy Owen who additionally offered the recently-axed client rights present X-Ray, instructed WalesOnline (WO) her associate’s father, Degwel Owen, has now “bounced again” from a current sickness and is doing effectively.
Different details, nevertheless, had been prevented within the article about her, and solely our journalists have reported them.
For instance we’ve proven how Mrs Owen had an affair with the previous BBC Radio Wales (RW) Editor Colin Paterson.
This shines an fascinating gentle on her feedback in WO (which had been on Twitter too) that she was: “‘So grateful for the distinctive care over the previous few weeks for Rhodri’s dad. Employees on the Princess of Wales Hospital, Cwm Taf Morgannwg, saved his life on Monday night time’”.
Previous occasions have additionally proved controversial, and these weren’t within the WO ‘story’ both.
When Mr Paterson’s former paramour was newsreading on WT, programme-makers used an image of Brighton Pavilion throughout protection of the beginning of the vastly necessary Muslim month of Ramadan as an alternative of a mosque, and the error was then featured within the Brighton Argus.
One Twitter person complained: “BBC Wales exhibiting an image of the Brighton Pavilion and getting it confused for a mosque when speaking about Ramadan is sort of f****d?”.
One other wrote furiously: “Not glad they’ve used a shot of Brighton Pavilion as if it’s a mosque (presumably)”.
Mrs Owen had additionally tweeted over Christmas 2020 about how she had taken a visit to the seashore at Southerndown within the Vale of Glamorgan, when others had been ruled by lockdown rules.
She handled us, as effectively, to a video of how she had suffered a “turkey drama” (presumably at her South Wales dwelling) by leaving plastic on the roast, however it didn’t evaluate to the disaster endured by the households to whom she broadcasted each night time with the newest lockdown guidelines.
She introduced on-line, as she confirmed us what had occurred: “I left a little bit of the plastic on it…”
Prior to now, Mrs Owen has additionally described as a ‘disaster’ sporting odd footwear into the workplace to broadcast the lunchtime bulletin, and requested whether or not anybody would discover.
She even included for us a shocked face emoji after that remark, and following it Mrs Owen stated on Twitter: “Disaster over!”.
But she may, maybe, have targeted on the BBC CW web site saying the identical day that coronavirus/Covid-19 was the largest explanation for demise in Wales that month, which many would possibly see as an actual drama.
This was what she would have learn as an alternative of complaining about sporting odd footwear: “The mortality charge rose “considerably” for a second month, to 260 deaths per 100,000 individuals in Wales. It was additionally greater than twice the speed in probably the most disadvantaged areas in contrast with the least disadvantaged space”.
In the meantime she had tweeted about how she had gone to the seashore along with her canine over the Christmas vacation, and hoped it had been “restful” for individuals, but it was unlikely to have been restful for others, when guidelines on Christmas Day itself forbade it.
The Welsh Authorities (WG) stated sternly: “In case you are travelling away from dwelling, you must journey to satisfy your Christmas bubble and return dwelling in the middle of 25 December...It is best to preserve taking steps to cut back the unfold of the virus, and this can assist be certain that you get pleasure from Christmas Day as safely as attainable.”
Journey recommendation from South Wales Police (SWP) warned individuals then about going to seashores “you shouldn’t be driving to those locations”.
However Mrs Owen is not any stranger to publicity, and has herself printed a ebook which raises funds for the Noah’s Ark Charity for the Youngsters’s Hospital of Wales known as ‘Boo-a-bog In The Park’.
Promoting a settled household life, she proclaimed on the time: “The story is about how a little bit boy will get although a scenario that’s difficult for him with the assistance of an imaginary buddy. But it surely’s all about discovering any means by means of a tough time or scenario.
“It’s been an actual household affair, with Rhod translating, and Gabs (younger son) got here up with thought for Boo-a-bog enjoyable and video games on the finish of the ebook. And the hyperlink to the charity as effectively makes it further particular for us. The theme of the story feels an excellent match with the charity.”
Maybe the ‘actual household affair’, may need been talked about within the merchandise about her in WO.
Or maybe not…
The reminiscences of our Editor, Welshman Phil Parry’s extraordinary 39 yr award-winning profession in journalism (when he has been the one journalist to have revealed the reality about Lucy Owen) as he was gripped by the uncommon incurable disabling situation Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia (HSP), have been launched within the ebook ‘A GOOD STORY’. Order the ebook now!
Publication of one other ebook, nevertheless, was refused, as a result of it was to have included names.
