David Aaronovitch
Born	1954
Occupation	Journalist/Broadcaster/Author
Parents	Sam Aaronovitch

David Aaronovitch (born July 8, 1954) is a British journalist, broadcaster, and author. Year 1954 ( MCMLIV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1954 Gregorian calendar) A journalist (also called a newspaperman) is a person who practices Journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events trends A presenter, or host (sometimes hostess, in feminine form is a Person or Organization responsible for running an event An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created Events 939 - The Major Occultation or Ghaybat el-Kubra of Muhammad al-Mahdi 1099 - First Crusade: 15000 Year 1954 ( MCMLIV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1954 Gregorian calendar) The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located A journalist (also called a newspaperman) is a person who practices Journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events trends A presenter, or host (sometimes hostess, in feminine form is a Person or Organization responsible for running an event An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created He is a regular columnist for The Times, and is the author of Paddling to Jerusalem: An Aquatic Tour of Our Small Country (2000). The Times is a daily national Newspaper published in the United Kingdom since 1785 when it was known as The Daily Universal Register. He won the George Orwell Prize for political journalism in 2001. The Orwell Prize is regarded as the pre-eminent British prize for political writing

Contents 1 Early life 2 Career in journalism 3 "Norman Johnson" 4 Quotations 5 Works 6 References 7 Further reading

Early life

Aaronovitch is the son of the late economist, Communist and anti-American comic book campaigner[1], Sam Aaronovitch, and brother of the actor Owen Aaronovitch and scriptwriter Ben Aaronovitch. Economics is the social science that studies the production distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Communism is a Socioeconomic structure that promotes the establishment of an egalitarian, classless, stateless Society based A comic book (often shortened to simply comic and sometimes called a comic paper or comic magazine) is a Magazine or Book of narrative Owen Aaronovitch (born 1956 in London. He is a British actor who has appeared in Prime Suspect, A Touch of Frost, Ben Denis Aaronovitch (born 1964 is a London-born British writer who has worked on television series including Doctor Who, Casualty He attended Gospel Oak Primary School until 1965, Holloway County Comprehensive 1965-68, and William Ellis School 1968-72. Gospel Oak Primary School is a primary school in Camden England William Ellis School Language College is a United Kingdom secondary Comprehensive school for boys in Highgate, London.

He studied Modern History at Balliol College, Oxford from October 1972 until April 1974, when he was sent down (expelled) for failing the German part of his History exams. Balliol College (ˈbeɪlɪəl founded in 1263 is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. He completed his education at the University of Manchester, graduating in 1978 with an upper second BA (Hons) in History. The University of Manchester is a " red brick " civic University located in Manchester, England. The British undergraduate degree classification system is a grading scheme for Undergraduate degrees ( Bachelor's degrees and some Master's degrees While at Manchester, he was a member of the 1975 University Challenge team that lost in the first round after answering most questions with the name of a revolutionary ("Trotsky", "Lenin", "Karl Marx" or "Che Guevara"). University Challenge is a long-running British television quiz show, licensed and produced by Granada Television. A revolutionary when used as a noun is a person who either actively engages in some kind of Revolution, or advocates the revolution with recognition from some government or

He was initially a Eurocommunist and active in the Young Communist League (YCL), where he met Peter Mandelson, then also a member. Eurocommunism was a new trend in the 1970s and 1980s within various Western European communist parties to develop a theory and practice of social transformation that The Young Communist League ( YCL) is the Youth wing of the Communist Party of Britain (CPB Peter Benjamin Mandelson (born 21 October 1953 called "Mandy" by much of the British News media, is a British Labour Politician who is the serving He was also active in the National Union of Students (NUS) where he got to know the president at the time, Charles Clarke, who later became Home Secretary. The National Union of Students ( NUS) is the main confederation of Students' unions that exist inside the United Kingdom. Charles Rodway Clarke (born 21 September 1950 is a British Labour Party Politician. The Secretary of State for the Home Department, commonly known as the Home Secretary, is the minister in charge of the United Kingdom Home Office Aaronovitch himself was president of the NUS from 1980 to 1982. He then identified with the broad left, but later moved rightward politically.

Career in journalism

He started his media career as a television researcher, then became a producer for ITV's Weekend World, and founding editor of the BBC's On the Record in 1988. Independent Television (generally known as ITV) is a public service network of British commercial television broadcasters set up under the Independent He moved over to print journalism in 1995, working for The Independent and Independent on Sunday as chief leader writer, television critic, and columnist until the end of 2002. The Independent is a British compact Newspaper published by Tony O'Reilly 's Independent News & Media. The Independent is a British compact Newspaper published by Tony O'Reilly 's Independent News & Media.

At the New Statesman he wrote a pseudonymous column purporting to be the diary of Lynton Charles, MP. The New Statesman is a British Left-wing political Magazine published weekly in London. A pseudonym is a fictitious alternative to a person's legal name (see Alias) Charles and Lynton are Tony Blair's middle names. Anthony Charles Lynton "Tony" Blair (born 6 May 1953 is a British Politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to He began contributing to The Guardian and The Observer in 2003, where he was a columnist and feature writer. The Guardian (until 1959 The Manchester Guardian) is a British Newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. The Observer is a British Newspaper published on Sundays In about the same place on the political spectrum as its daily sister paper The Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. Since June 2005, he has written a regular column for The Times and regularly writes columns for the Jewish Chronicle. The Jewish Chronicle (" The JC " is a London-based Jewish Newspaper. He also presents or contributes to radio and television programmes, including the BBC's Have I Got News For You and BBC News 24. Have I Got News for You is a British television panel show produced by Hat Trick Productions for the BBC. BBC News is the BBC's 24 hour rolling news television channel in the United Kingdom and also available in the Republic of Ireland.

In his columns, he supports the current New Labour position, although he has opposed them on issues related to the House of Lords, civil liberties and voting reform. The Labour Party is a Political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the The House of Lords is the second house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and is also commonly referred to as "the Lords" He strongly supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The 2003 invasion of Iraq, from March 20 to May 1 2003 was spearheaded by the United States, backed by British forces and smaller contingents from Australia

"Norman Johnson"

Several months after Aaronovitch left The Guardian, the paper began to run 'Norman Johnson', who is now widely recognised as a satire on Aaronovitch and his new columns for The Times.

So let's get to know one another. I'm Norman Johnson. OK, I'm there before you. You're thinking: would that be the same Norman whose byline once ornamented the Morning Star? One and the same. For other uses see Morning Star. The Morning Star is a left-wing, British daily Newspaper, set in a Like I told Michael Buerk on The Choice, when he asked what happened to the wiry young babe magnet whose anti-capitalist critiques once captivated the Hampstead Garden Suburb Young Communist League: it's not me that changed, it's the climate. Michael Duncan Buerk (born February 18, 1946) is a BBC Journalist and newsreader, most famous for his reporting of the Ethiopian As Tony Blair says — and I happen to think he's got a point — history will judge whether it is strictly consistent to have been a proselytising Marxist in 1971 and chair of a New Labour fringe meeting in 2005. Anthony Charles Lynton "Tony" Blair (born 6 May 1953 is a British Politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to And you know what? She'll say that it is. Absolutely. Consistent. [2]

Various people have been identified as the real writer of the Norman Johnson columns, principally Catherine Bennett, a regular Guardian columnist. Catherine Bennett is a British Journalist working for The Guardian and The Observer, where she writes columns on Politics

Quotations

• "I don't believe that Saddam is a major backer of al-Qaeda (though he gives support to other groups) and I think it quite likely that he has had no effective nuclear programme for years. He would if he could, but he can't. But I want him out, for the sake of the region (and therefore, eventually, for our sakes), but most particularly for the sake of the Iraqi people who can't lift this yoke on their own. If they could, that would be best; if he would agree to go into exile, that would be just dandy. The argument that Saddam's removal will of necessity lead to 'chaos' or the democratic election of an unsuitable Islamist government is worthy of Henry Kissinger at his most cynical. Henry Alfred Kissinger (born Heinz Alfred Kissinger on May 27, 1923) is a German -born American bureaucrat diplomat and 1973 It is pretty disgusting when heard in the mouths of 'left-wingers'. The Iraqi people, however, can't shift their tyrant on their own. Again, it would be preferable if an invasion could be undertaken, not by the Americans, but by, say, the Nelson Mandela International Peace Force, spearheaded by the Rowan Williams British Brigade. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (xolíɬaɬa mandéːla born 18 July 1918 is a former President of South Africa, the first to be elected in fully representative Rowan Douglas Williams, PC, DD, DCL, FBA, (born 14 June 1950 in Swansea, Wales) is an Anglican That's not on offer. It has to be the Yanks. I do not believe that George Bush is the manic oil-chimp of caricature. His administration really does have a view that it is necessary to remove Saddam pour décourager les autres. It will, they have convinced themselves, show resolve, deter state terrorism, discourage proliferation and permit the building of a rare non-tyranny in the Arab world. There is something to be said for all this. "^[1]
• "If nothing is eventually found, I - as a supporter of the war - will never believe another thing that I am told by our government, or that of the US ever again. And, more to the point, neither will anyone else. Those weapons had better be there somewhere. They probably are. "^[2]
• " In February 2003 Matthew (Parris) wrote that he would be against a war in Iraq even if there were WMD, even if it were authorised by the UN, even if a liberated Iraq was then stable, and concluded: “I’m against war because it will antagonise moderate Arab opinion. ” And the Iraqi people? To be massacred, shredded, gassed, beheaded, suppressed, starved, immiserated, terrorised and tortured because all of that would be less bad than antagonising moderate Arab opinion. An Iraqi democrat stands in front of an armchair anti- interventionist, and is invisible. I do apologise. For Abu Ghraib and Donald Rumsfeld. For not understanding the insurgents. For the looting. For the dire planning. I apologise to the election workers assassinated, the police trainees blown up, the parents of children caught in crossfire and everyone else that the planners and executors of the invasion that I supported, and still support, may have let down by neglect or stupidity. I recognise their bravery and their determination to succeed despite everything. But a disaster compared with what? Compared with Saddam and sanctions or Saddam and cyanide. And that — the thing that Matthew presumably preferred — was not a disaster? Snort. "^[3]

In late-2005 Aaronovitch was co-author, with journalists Oliver Kamm and Francis Wheen, of a complaint to The Guardian when it published a correction and apology for an interview with Chomsky by Emma Brockes. Oliver Kamm (born 1963 is a British writer and newspaper columnist Francis James Baird Wheen (born 22 January 1957) is a British journalist writer and broadcaster The Guardian (until 1959 The Manchester Guardian) is a British Newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. Emma Brockes (born 1975 is a British journalist for The Guardian newspaper working principally as a profile writer ^[4] Chomsky complained that the article suggested he denied the fact of the Srebrenica massacre of 1995. The Srebrenica Massacre, also known as Srebrenica Genocide, was the July 1995 killing of an estimated 8000 Bosniak men and boys in the region of Srebrenica ^[5] The writer Diana Johnstone also complained about references to her in the interview. Diana Johnstone (born 1934 is a Leftist political writer focusing primarily on European politics and Western foreign policy ^[6] A Guardian readers' editor found that this had misrepresented Chomsky's position, and his judgement was upheld in May 2006 by an external ombudsman, John Willis. ^[7] In his report for the Guardian, Willis detailed his reasons for rejecting the argument; Kamm maintains that his argument "remains unconsidered" by Willis. ^[8] The Independent's media columnist Stephen Glover criticized the Willis report and asks why Willis did not "reconsider Professor Chomsky's original complaint in the light of the evidence adduced by Messrs Aaronovitch, Kamm and Wheen in their letter". The Independent is a British compact Newspaper published by Tony O'Reilly 's Independent News & Media. ^[9]

Works

• Paddling to Jerusalem: An Aquatic Tour of Our Small Country (Fourth Estate, 2000) ISBN 978-1-84115-540-1
• No Excuses For Terror, a 45-minute documentary film that "criticizes how the anti-Israel views of the far-left and far-right have permeated the mainstream media and political discourse. "^[10]
• Blaming the Jews, a 45-minute documentary film that evaluates anti-Semitism in Arab media and culture.
• God and the Politicians', 28 Sep 2005, a documentary film that looks at the important question of the increasing religious influence on politics in the UK

References

Further reading

• David Aaronovitch column in The Guardian
• David Aaronovitch column in The Times
• David Aaronovitch at the Internet Movie Database

Political offices
Preceded by Trevor Philips	President of the National Union of Students 1980-82	Succeeded by Neil Stewart

For the former English professional footballer see Trevor Phillips (footballer Trevor Phillips The National Union of Students ( NUS) is the main confederation of Students' unions that exist inside the United Kingdom.

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