Yes, the headline you thought you would never see! Sort of. I comment the following compilation by G.O.T. of those key moments when the BBC could be trusted – enjoy.
"Newsnight penned in THE editor of Newsnight, Peter Rippon, has hit back at the criticism aired by the Londoner that the show’s new 'Politics Pen' is made up entirely of Labour stooges.
“'I would urge viewers and critics to at least watch it before rushing to judgment,' says Rippon. “Politics Pen is not a finely politically calibrated panel like Question Time or Any Questions. It does not need to be because we are trying to do something different.
“'However, Digby Jones never joined the Labour Party and was part of the ‘government of all talents’… Deborah Mattinson is employed by the Labour Party — but her contributions to the Pen are not from a party political point of view… Matthew Taylor is a former Labour strategist, but like all the panel, he understands the idea of the Pen is to make engaging TV.'
"Rippon’s riposte has gone down badly with viewers. 'First, we must try and ignore your sneering dismissal of a very fair criticism as ‘predictable’,' complains one. 'Has it not occurred to you that it is predictable because it is obvious?
'Second, let’s try and dissect your statement. You actually admit that all four of your panellists have established links with the Labour Party, and all four have, in some way, been EMPLOYED by the Labour government. Do you really, honestly, genuinely not see any problem here?'”
Just goes to illustrate the basic paradigm of television news: When there is lots of news everything must somehow be shoehorned into the allotted time slot (often things get left out. When nothing much is happening what you have must be stretched to fill the space.
My sympathies with G.O.T. having to watch so much BBC to capture the dead air.
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Wankers.
Why are BBC TV presenters so fucking ugly? Check out some of the American news presenters and you'll see what I mean.
Seriously, the BBC needs to stop recruiting from the in-bred public schoolie gene pool.
'Evening Standard' Londoner's Diary:
"Newsnight penned in
THE editor of Newsnight, Peter Rippon, has hit back at the criticism aired by the Londoner that the show’s new 'Politics Pen' is made up entirely of Labour stooges.
“'I would urge viewers and critics to at least watch it before rushing to judgment,' says Rippon. “Politics Pen is not a finely politically calibrated panel like Question Time or Any Questions. It does not need to be because we are trying to do something different.
“'However, Digby Jones never joined the Labour Party and was part of the ‘government of all talents’… Deborah Mattinson is employed by the Labour Party — but her contributions to the Pen are not from a party political point of view… Matthew Taylor is a former Labour strategist, but like all the panel, he understands the idea of the Pen is to make engaging TV.'
"Rippon’s riposte has gone down badly with viewers. 'First, we must try and ignore your sneering dismissal of a very fair criticism as ‘predictable’,' complains one.
'Has it not occurred to you that it is predictable because it is obvious?
'Second, let’s try and dissect your statement. You actually admit that all four of your panellists have established links with the Labour Party, and all four have, in some way, been EMPLOYED by the Labour government. Do you really, honestly, genuinely not see any problem here?'”
Just goes to illustrate the basic paradigm of television news: When there is lots of news everything must somehow be shoehorned into the allotted time slot (often things get left out. When nothing much is happening what you have must be stretched to fill the space.
My sympathies with G.O.T. having to watch so much BBC to capture the dead air.
Reminiscent of Time Trumpet's NO NEWS. :o)