ACE KELLY

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I beg your indulgence for another hacking scandal post. The topic on Nicky Campbell’s phone-in this morning on Radio Five Live was: “Will you mourn the News Of The World?”

Kelly from Stafford was good value:

Nicky Campbell Phone-in, R5L (mp3)

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  1. Daisy says:
    July 8, 2011 at 4:09 pm

    This supports Hippiepooter. Nicky Campbell let Kelly from Stafford have her say without stopping her.

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    • Grant says:
      July 8, 2011 at 4:51 pm

      Daisy,
      Proves the BBC is fair-minded and objective. How could any fool think otherwise  ?   😀

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    • Martin says:
      July 8, 2011 at 5:21 pm

      Um they didn’t let her hang around though, he gets rid of her right at the end, callers ‘he’ likes get to stay on the air as anyone who has listened ot the garbage at Radio 5 knows.

      She did make some valid points, but hers was a lone voice.

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      • hippiepooter says:
        July 8, 2011 at 5:28 pm

        You might have a point here Martin, you might not – I’ve never noticed any partiality before on who gets to hang around.  I heard the call-in, and if my memory serves Kelly wasn’t the only one who spoke in favour, although she certainly was the most unequivocal!

        I have to say I was listening to Nicky C conduct interviews on this on Wednesday and to my mind he was patently trying to get headling grabbing quotes that would serve the BBC Gramscian agenda.  Back to his usual high standards today though, as Kelly herself noted.

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    • NotaSheep says:
      July 8, 2011 at 8:25 pm

      Quick to cut her off when she brought up the Bernie Ecclestone affair, wasn’t he?

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  2. john in cheshire says:
    July 8, 2011 at 4:11 pm

    Shame she didn’t preface her comments about the bbc with the word ‘socialist’. Otherwise, a very sensible lady. And at least she was allowed her say without interruption.

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  3. noggin says:
    July 8, 2011 at 4:29 pm

    too true,unfortunately  i ve been on the end of a microphone turn down while guest or presenter just cut in/interrupt, on that very show
    she must have, played a blinder,(wink wink) to those condecending 5contrive call vetters so well said Kelly.
    oh an excellent piece from M.Philips… acidic precision
    Melanie’s blog

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  4. Henry says:
    July 8, 2011 at 4:53 pm

    Superb 🙂  Go Kelly from Stafford!

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  5. Jeremy Clarke says:
    July 8, 2011 at 5:30 pm

    I see Tom Baldwin’s antics are now all over the BBC.

    Ha ha. Only joking.

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  6. fred bloggs says:
    July 8, 2011 at 6:14 pm

    Didn’t want to carry on the conversation about Blair and the Ecclestone bribe, silly me i mean’t  donation, I cannot imagine why.

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  7. jeff says:
    July 8, 2011 at 6:44 pm

    The only aspect of this tawdry affair that I’m saddened by will be the loss of jobs. TNOTW was the lowest of the gross red tops and all the others are pretty ghastly. Kelly mentioned the Profumo scandal…well yes, 50 years ago they had a story of substance, but who cares what money grabbing bimbo is being shagged by Ryan Giggs? It’s just nasty and spiteful.

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    • Martin says:
      July 8, 2011 at 8:39 pm

      Our media has gone that way because more and more of it is ideologically driven, not to mention the obsession (including the BBC) with the cult of celebrity.

      Does anoyne really give a toss about what Cheryl  Cole is or isn’t doing? The media argue it does as people buy the papers.

      Would be very interesting to put all stories about Cheryl Cole behind a paywall and then just see who really wants to pay for this crap.

      Same with garbage like Eastenders, make people pay to watch it and I bet the viewing figures would drop like a hookers knickers after a box of Tesco plonko da vino

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  8. tinks says:
    July 8, 2011 at 9:46 pm

    She was very good. A ‘normal’ person, who’d have thunk it.

    Just watching yesterday’s OneShow (with Steve Martin) and there was a live link to the Questioin Time studio about the NOTW troubles.Talk about agendas.

    Though not nice, I’m not sure dialling a default answer machine code is ‘hacking’.

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  9. Phil says:
    July 8, 2011 at 9:51 pm

    No, I won’t mourn the News of the World.

    I never saw a copy in my parent’s house and I have never bought a copy myself. Only as a 70s teenage paperboy did I ever sample its topless delights.

    I don’t buy downmarket dross entertainment from anyone, and I’m appalled that the government manufactures so much of it via its BBC arm.

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  10. Alfie Pacino says:
    July 9, 2011 at 1:03 am

    … and yet the Daily Star is so much the better rag…

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  11. NRG says:
    July 9, 2011 at 8:57 am

    There was a very entertaining moment on BBC World a couple of nights ago.

    Beeboid presenter attempting to leverage anti-Tory propaganda out of the NOTW debacle invited a Guardian hack to kick David Cameron, the hack, to his credit, refused the offer and istead put the little parasitical squeaker in her place by robustly pointing out that both Labour and the Conservatives have links with the Murdoch empire.

    The look on her face was priceless and the interview was quickly terminated
     

     
    It comes to something when even the Guardian demonstrates greater integrity than the Beeboids.

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  12. matthew rowe says:
    July 9, 2011 at 12:06 pm

    Well I won’t miss it but I will notice that another nail will have been nailed into the diverse media we all should want and yes that includes awful dross! I like high minded stuff like ‘ Fraser’ but I can also laugh at ‘bottom’ !  but  we are not forced to pay for the red top madness which is so unlike the worthless junk the BBC and it’s pet rags force on us under threat of imprisonment ! !

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  13. Scoobywho says:
    July 9, 2011 at 12:32 pm

    She was kept on long enough for the men from the BBC ministry to locate her address and get round there in their ‘van’, with a roll of gaffer tape…

    No one has seen Kelly since then. Her bank accounts have been deleted and no trace exists of her employment details or national insurance number….

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