21 Responses to ANDREW MARR TRIBUTE POST

  1. tinks says:
    April 26, 2011 at 9:27 pm

    Go on I’m all ears. 😀

    Something on the news (paper review) about the Beeb not being able to pay enough to attract the best staff due to the cuts! £400,000 salaries needed.

       0 likes

  2. Klaus Howard says:
    April 26, 2011 at 10:32 pm

    My thoughts, well we obviosly know ther has been a bit of a media s***storm recently about so-called “superinjunctions”. Being in the position he is in, he obviously is privy to information that is not normally in the public domain.

    He knows that the courts will eventually release the details due to public pressure, and as such, he will be in a very awkward position indeed if he does not cut a serious dash towards openness.

    You can guarantee that any criticism of Marr will be batted away with the response “He realised the error of his ways, he came out in the open sooner than he had to etc. But I think that Ian Hislop may have seen through this, as we all have.

    I still think the question remains, who in the realms of reality would actually engage in an affair with said man in the first place. I’m no Brad Pitt myself, but if I was to put him in a bracket based on looks, it would be “Forever a virgin”. Fell off every branch – and hit a few Marxist ones in the process :-)…

       0 likes

  3. dave s says:
    April 26, 2011 at 10:34 pm

    I heard about this months ago and had no interest at all. It is still of no interest to me but then I have no interest in anything Marr says or thinks.
    He is the epitome of supercilious beeboidity -is there such a word ?

       0 likes

  4. ap-w says:
    April 26, 2011 at 10:54 pm

    One point some of you are missing here is his pure selflessness: 

    “I also had my own family to think about, and I believed this story was nobody else’s business.”

    His first concern, of course, was for his family. Presumably any benefit to himself in protecting his professional reputation against accusations of hypocrisy was just incidental to the family interest.

    Not often I have sympathy for Gordon Brown but didn’t this utter tosser ask him whether he was taking anti-depression pills or something?

       0 likes

    • RCE says:
      April 27, 2011 at 2:47 am

      Surely if he was that bothered about his family he wouldn’t have had the affair in the first place?

         0 likes

  5. mark says:
    April 27, 2011 at 12:03 am

    “I did not come into journalism to go around gagging journalists”.

    Well, at least, not for more than three years.
    Just another BBC common purpose shill – do as I say, not as I do.

       0 likes

  6. jarwill101 says:
    April 27, 2011 at 4:50 am

    I wonder just how diverse, enriched & liberal the atmosphere in McMekon’s sumptuous west London home is at the moment? Are they all being ‘very adult’ about his ‘offshore drilling’ exploits? Perhaps the air is cold with recrimination, & Randy has been exiled to the garden shed to gaze at his posters of Lenin.
    Perhaps Mrs Marr feels a perverse sense of sisterly solidarity with the other woman who, fleetingly, found the odious windbag attractive.
    Brood on, Android, with your unearthly visage. Never forget that you are the Beeboid Minister for Enforced Miscegenation – albeit without portfolio, & without loyalty to your ‘hideously white’ family. The Thames is close; & it is calling.

       0 likes

  7. 1327 says:
    April 27, 2011 at 5:51 am

    I’m amused by the Beebiods thinking that this was a secret which no one (well no little people) knew about. The reality of course was that Guido covered this one months and months ago followed by pretty much every other blog on the planet. The disconnect between the MSN and the new media has never been wider.

       0 likes

  8. chelsmee says:
    April 27, 2011 at 7:05 am

    he has handled the situation with typical albeeba dignity and advanced the cause of press freedom and mankind. i suggest he has borne the brunt of this issue and sacrificed himself at the altar of press freedom and impartiality. arise sir marr.what better endorsement of al beeba’s ethos . increase the licence fee and shut down horrible bskyb. we need more of this selfless national service

       0 likes

  9. My Site (click to edit) says:
    April 27, 2011 at 7:20 am

    If his intention had to be to enter ‘journalism’, considering his body of ‘work’ and employer, this personal peccadillo seems small beer in comparison, embarrassment-wise, for a vastly overpaid in-theory market-rate talent.

    Mind you, when it comes to slight disconnects between what is done and said in terms of rampant Beebocrisy, one could do worse than Mr. Horrocks’ latest outing….

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2011/04/bbc_world_service_and_afghanistan.html

    Yet again, we are treated to the factual slam duck persuasiveness of an editorial employee’s personal opinion on what he ‘thinks’ about how ‘news’ gets ‘interpreted’.

    And this from the outfit that pretty much invented ‘enhancing the narrative’ to bend the story to fit a narrow agenda and/or to boost ratings.

    They really don’t seem as well equipped to deal with it as well as they like to dish it out, do they?

       0 likes

  10. NotaSheep says:
    April 27, 2011 at 7:59 am

    I am not really concerned by Andrew Marr’s private life, his infidelity, his mistress or his love-child (or not). I am more concerned by the way that a former member of the Socialist Campaign for a Labour Victory whilst at Cambridge University, a former self-confessed ‘raving leftie’ nicknamed ‘Red Andy’ and the current husband of the political journalist at the left-wing Guardian Jackie Ashley has become one of the chief political interviewers at the ‘impartial’ BBC.

    Andrew Marr’s infidelities and gagging orders are of no real interest to me but his blatant pro-Labour/anti-Conservative bias in interviews is. Here is what I wrote in June 2010:
    ‘Here is the text of a complaint that I have just lodged at the BBC Trust’s complaint’s page re the bias shown by Andrew Marr in his interviews with the three main party leaders:

    ‘… Andrew Marr’s interview with Gordon Brown broke down between subjects thus:
    Hung parliaments, campaign, the Queen – 12m 18s (48.5%)
    Immigration – 5m 21s (21%)
    Bankers – 3m 11s (12.5%)
    Ash cloud – 2m 40s (10.5%)
    Afghanistan – 1m 56s (7.5%)
    Cuts, deficit – 0 m 0s (0%)

    Andrew Marr’s interview with Nick Clegg broke down between subjects thus:
    Hung parliaments, Clegg personally – 11m 7s (49.7%)
    Immigration – 7m 32s (33.7%)
    Trident – 3m 42s (16.6%)
    Cuts, deficit – 0m os (0%)

    Andrew Marr’s interview with David Cameron broke down between subjects thus:
    Cuts, deficit – 15m 26s (67%)
    Priorities – 3m 20s (14.5%)
    Hung parliament, campaign – 3 m 0s (13%)
    Living Wage – 1m 18s (5.5%)

    So Andrew Marr spent 2/3 of the whole interview discussing with David Cameron a subject that he chose not to raise with Nick Clegg and Gordon Brown at all. If the subject of ‘cuts’ was so important as to warrant 2/3 of the interview with David Cameron, why was it not important enough to raise with Gordon Brown or Nick Clegg? Does Andrew Marr believe that only the Conservatives will make cuts or is that just the perception he would like to leave viewers with?

    Andrew Marr’s position as one of the BBC’s lead interviewer is compromised by such blatant bias; what action will the BBC Trust take against him now that you have proof of his anti-Conservative bias?

    The percentages are sourced from http://beebbiascraig.blogspot.com/2010/05/more-on-marr.html – If you disagree with the figures, do please correct them.’

       0 likes

    • Roland Deschain says:
      April 27, 2011 at 12:26 pm

      Did you ever get a reply?  Other than “Mr Marr is a professional journalist who adheres to the highest standards of impartiality.  We think he got it about right, because we say so”.

      One thing is certain: they won’t have refuted Craig’s statistics with any of their own, because they never do, and I don’t believe they keep any.  This could be their Achilles heel – they have a statutory duty of impartiality and appear to have no statistics to show how they uphold the duty.

         0 likes

  11. cjhartnett says:
    April 27, 2011 at 9:45 am

    Hope that Marr is sent down for “contempt of court”-Justice Eadie surely says that these are world wide bans and for ever-yet wee Andy is squealing like a Beeboid on three quarter of a million!

    No wonder he can afford to pay m`learned friends to wash his undies before our eyes-as well as pay out for 7 years on a kid that wan`t  his too.

    Still it` s our money eh?…our BBC!
    Why then was I not consulted on the Beeboid “Trust” being passed on like a greased pig from Lyons to Patten-were any of you out ther invited to the interviews( a night at Boodles then!) I wonder?

    Having heard “Sir Michael” purring and patronising-as well as lying like a good`un about the impartial nature of all things Beeb yesterday-I hope that this will bring down the lot of them in due course.
    No wonder Marr was a bit distracted on his useless “Start the Week” the other day-he wondered where Shakespeares missing play went-probably to Justice Eadie Andy, my wayward wingnut!

       0 likes

  12. George R says:
    April 27, 2011 at 11:15 am

    “EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Will Andrew Marr’s mea culpa start a fashion at the BBC? I doubt it”

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1380973/Will-Andrew-Marrs-mea-culpa-start-fashion-BBC-I-doubt-it.html#ixzz1KikFBIb5

    Video clip, Channel 4:



       0 likes

  13. As I See It says:
    April 27, 2011 at 1:43 pm

    It is interesting to speculate on Marr’s timing. One thing’s for sure, it won’t have been some sudden personal epiphany. It won’t have been a self-less act for the gretaer peace of mind of his nearest and dearest, and it sure won’t have been an ethical act of journalistic professionalism (despite what his BBC friends are saying). Watch this closely. His move will in some way be for careerist or financial reasons – like the good socialist he is.

       0 likes

    • Bupendra Bhakta says:
      April 27, 2011 at 2:02 pm

      I understand that Private Eye were after him.

      Better to expose on his own terms … personal struggle… protecting the innocent… clear the air… hung heavy on my conscience no really it did…. than to be dragged kicking and screaming to the truth..

         0 likes

  14. Pirran says:
    April 27, 2011 at 5:43 pm

    Three years, hmmm….I think we need a few Marrite interviews over the past few years where he lays into a politician/celebrity/journo for sexual hypocrisy. There must be some.

    Anyone got any clips??

    What a creepily repugnant bombastic buffoon. The guy makes my flesh crawl.

       0 likes

  15. George R says:
    April 27, 2011 at 10:20 pm

    “Andrew Marr: Face Of An Incestuous Establishment Media Who Fellate The Elite”

    http://www.anorak.co.uk/279436/media/andrew-marr-face-of-an-incestuous-establishment-media-who-fellate-the-elite.html

       0 likes