Robert Peston and Nick Robinson have been central to the two week long prolonged BBC assault on the Murdoch empire. After the Murdochs and Brooks gave a reasonably credible account of themselves at the Commons Committee the other day, the BBC were not slow to dismiss this and instantly resumed the daily attack. Listen to Peston this morning go after James Murdoch – did he lie to the all-powerful committee, questions must be asked, etc. The narrative is still in full flow as the BBC gorges on its own largely synthetic outrage and seeks to project it onto the UK population.
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It’s also front page Telegraph today.
Yes, the Telegraph has been to the fore in trying to bury Murdoch. Of course none of us is forced to buy it.
As Rupert Murdoch mentioned to the Select Committee – there has been a phalanx of media organisations working together to block the BSkyB bid. The BBC D-G got his wrist slapped for publicly associating the BBC with this organised opposition, in which the Telegraph has been a key player.
What-MPs in some self righteous fit of morality reckon that an American millionaire in his thirties doesn`t tell them the whole story…or more likely; the story that they`re telling everyone everyday. Whether it`s true or not belongs to the ages-once the books are out and the careers of the carrion crows have moved along to higher things!
Love the idea of a Vaz, Bercow, Farrelly or Sheridan feeling entitled to do any public proescutor role…need only use the word “expenses” needn`t I?
Rabid slavering dog refuses to leave kennel until we`ve been infected with the drool…that a news story to anyone but the BBC?
Time for the V..E..T for all things Beeboid surely!
That Keith Vaz is considered a suitable person to be probing anyone else’s truthfulness says all we need to know about our current legislators.
Exactly! I thought he quite well but he shpuld never have been considered in the first place, had he been hoi polloi he would already have a prison sentence or two on his record.
The Telegraph seems to have picked up the Hackgate bug as much as any other paper. It has pushed the Cameron angle even more than the BBC and Guardian.
I really can’t think why the DT – owned by the Telegraph Group, one of Murdoch’s competitors – should have devoted so much attention to this story.
Has it really been two weeks? It seems like an eternity. Will it ever end?
In the twilight of their years I imagine wrinkled beeboids reminiscing about their time in the Murdoch wars. The victories, the defeats the sheer hell of it all.
And all for an ungrateful people . Such is the fate of heroes.
Isn’t it about time that someone senior from the right challenged what the Beeboids are doing on the Murdoch enquiries and stuck one between the ribs of the BBC? If Cameron hasn’t got the balls to do it, then it should be taken out his hands.
I would like to complain about the image used: I have lived in countries where vultures and other carrion eaters play an important role in clearing up dead and rotting carcasses – or are the two in the photo comtemplating swooping down on the putrid remains of BBC impartiality?
The BBC are really scraping the bottom of the barrel to keeop this non story going.
James Murdoch says he was not aware of an email not sent to him but sent to an employee down the food chain, yes just one f*cking email when he signed off on a compensation settlement. Now the ex employees say he was made aware of the email OH NO CALL OUT THE HOME GUARD, DONT PANIC MR MANNERING.
James Murdoch authorised a settlement of a victim of phone hacking, that was his job. His job was not to read all the hundreds of pages of reports, emails, legal advice and negotiations. The man is a boss with underlings, they advise him to cut the cheque and he cuts it. The BBC attack line is barely credible, a man in his position delegates, if he spent all his time reading every little thing that came into his office let alone into the offices of his flunkies it would take the man 7 days a week of reading for the rest of his life.
Here is how these things works, the big cheese walks in and flunkies give him the brief introduction to the issue, big cheese only wants to know two things, will the person take some money to go away or do we go to court and if its the former he gets his ten grand pen out and signs the cheque. Thats it! Big cheeses like Murdoch Jnr do not sit at a desk trawling through thousands of bits of paper just to see if something might be amiss.
I mean FFS BBC what on earth do you think big cheese business execs do with their time? If Murdoch says he was unaware of an email and his ex employese claim otherwise so what? I forget what day it is, I can barely remember last week let alone years ago, can you imagine a man that has to deal with hundreds of deals and decisions a day remembering one poxy email among hundreds just to write a settelment cheque that would take all of 2 minutes to complete. Big cheese asks is it cheaper to pay them off or fight them, its a question of time/value/cost and big cheeses make those calls every day.
The BBC are really desperate to stick it to the Murdochs, I wonder if they will be so keen on the tiny details when the Mirror or the gaurdian or indeed the BBC are brought before the commitee?
This witch hunt against Murdoch is approaching the McCarthy show trials. When the central charge becomes whether a busy person remembers seeing a single email that would have been dealt with by a flunky anyway from years ago, it really makes you wonder what the BBCs real intentions are.
What really pisses me off though above all else is the fact that I am defending a gutter press profiteer, WTF? Of all the things going on in the world that threaten to rinse us all down the toilet bowl that is life nowadays, the storm in a tea cup petty political smear is at the very back of the to do list.
FACT: Newlabour from its inception created an MSM monster, it bore the ugly creation, it nurtured it and when newlabour gained office they worked closely together for nearly all of labours time in office. Governance by gutter press dirty tricks and smears.
According to two key NI execs that’s not how it works and in the particular circumstances of this case it wouldn’t surprise me.
I think in our eagermess to expose the BBC acting as Ed Miliband’s Press Officer on this matter, we have to avoid acting as Ni’s Press Officer.
Hope that useless UCU survey will look at %qualifications as a function of gullibility to the whole notion of the Gramsci Project.
They confirm that only the thick are Labour NOW…but the liberal elite are far more dangerous, because they seem to think we`re still gagging for AV…as their constituencies voted for…so there!
They`d not regard themselves as gulls and fools-but Ibrahim won`t bother himself with that.
They`ll not be sacrificing us so they can feel better about it all-we need to turn them into acceptable sacrifices to Allah or Monnet…but they`ll not be using the BBC as their glove puppet much longer.
The select committee was made a complete farce due to the arrest and bail of Brooks.
The Murdochs handled the event a lot better and the committee where broadly speaking firing blanks when it came to their line of questioning.
The guy in the white suit was the best attack horse and caused JM a few problems, but overall the event was a damp squib followed by the farce of that idiot with the pie… Idiot…
I reckon Peston & Co. are trying to bore the pants off the public to such an extent that absolutely nobody will ever want to hear about the well-documented even-more-enthusiastic phone-hacking antics of certain other media organisations. Peston is such a twit. He may one day regret the unleashing of this particular genie.
‘Robert Peston and Nick Robinson have been central … questions must be asked, etc. ‘
Though compelled to pay, I no longer sample the BBC’s broadcast output other than online. Mainly via links.
What is clear is that the questions being asked are highly selective, and when asked back, or answers stray, their blogs take a very odd turn.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14232406
Meanwhile…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8654268/Phone-hacking-BBCs-Robert-Peston-and-Tom-Watson-in-Twitter-row.html
Let’s see which twitter news Aunty goes with
The way this story has developed it does seem James Murdoch has to explain himself, albeit last night when I first heard Peston break this he did sound rather breathless and over-excited.
Incidentally, the PM announcing that the BBC will also be looked at in the Leveson Inquiry. Yesterday I watched Mark Easton weigh up the impact of reduced police numbers and he was impeccably impartial if not veeering towards the Tories. No doubt Lord Prezza was gnashing his teeth with rage in fact. I discern balance where I hadn’t seen it before. I wonder if the PM’s comments are having some effect?
Peston always sounds breathless and over-excited.
It’s a nice thought, but don’t hold your breath!
Given the alacrity with which the BBC relays demands for answers from those whose side of events is contradicted, I wonder how quick they will be to demand answers from Piers Morgan?
Tonights PM seems to have decided that “reporting other peoples news” is no longer enough!
So it was that we got a “Commission” on Press Privacy…like a real one doncha know-with Sir Michael Lyons(well-keeps him in the building and out of Pattens futon!).
Cue then a few minutes of the “conclusions” of their in-house musings-and ,of course: it will be handed over to the real Commission…so they can then give us yet ANOTHER few yards of flannel about their inhouse musings and what it is bound to mean.
So there you have it -the BBC making up their own Commisssions, reporting on their own findings and then passing it on as research to the saps outside the building who seem to think that they are doing it in reality!
The BBC makes its own news-that a news story?
What about my reprting this to you-that a story too?
This one could run and run!…
Back to your lives people-the BBC have sorted it all out…but Murdoch still has a few thousand miles to go I`m sure…
Cassandra – are you saying that lying to Parliament does not matter? Or that it’s credible that any company writes off the best part of a million pounds and don’t bother to ask what it is they get from signing off such a large amount of money? here you are mr taylor take a million pounds – my underlings tell me it’s a good deal and obviously i’m too much of a busy big-shot businessman to ask why. There have been all these stories in the paper about illegal phone-hacking but I’m sure it’s nothing to do with that – after all my underlings say so.
To summarise – two senior people at NOTW have contradicted the evidence James Murdoch gave on Tuesday and if you can’t see that’s a story for the BBC and any other news organisation you really have to be blinded by your anti BBC prejudice.
When I saw the reports from the BBC though, the style of reporting left much to be desired. It was their usual soft, constant bias stuff; without directly stating it every implication and emphasis was made to suggest James Murdoch was indeed lying.
Cassandras right in that the BBC have long gone off the deep end in a fixation.
1. Any illegality needs apprehending and punishing-but thanks to the last Labour Government, no-one really knows what breaking the law actually means, For a shed load of third rate lawyers, they really cannot put a law together that could be ennacted-let alone judged and punished If MPs escape, criminals get out early on appeals and Casn for honours is not breaking the laws: then why should James Murdoch be so hounded.
2. If the BBC spent even 1/100 of the time on taking on Islam, the slide into an EU superstate with no agreement from us lot: then we`d be a bit more circumspect regarding the BBC. As it is, we get their venal banalities all the time and have no say in whether we subscribe or not.
As it is, Cassndra-inded anyone can`t be nasty enough about the BBCs “Stalin the aromatherapist” culture.
The BBC will walk you into a lime green Nazi ghetto-or an Islamic enclave facing it-far faster than any Cassandra or me!
Pick on your real danger and enemy!
Cassandras right in that the BBC have long gone off the deep end in a fixation.
1. Any illegality needs apprehending and punishing-but thanks to the last Labour Government, no-one really knows what breaking the law actually means, For a shed load of third rate lawyers, they really cannot put a law together that could be ennacted-let alone judged and punished If MPs escape, criminals get out early on appeals and Casn for honours is not breaking the laws: then why should James Murdoch be so hounded.
2. If the BBC spent even 1/100 of the time on taking on Islam, the slide into an EU superstate with no agreement from us lot: then we`d be a bit more circumspect regarding the BBC. As it is, we get their venal banalities all the time and have no say in whether we subscribe or not.
As it is, Cassndra-inded anyone can`t be nasty enough about the BBCs “Stalin the aromatherapist” culture.
The BBC will walk you into a lime green Nazi ghetto-or an Islamic enclave facing it-far faster than any Cassandra or me!
Pick on your real danger and enemy!
We can only hope that one day it comes out just how much BBC figures was contriving to further and maintain this scandal. I have no love for Murdoch, I agree with Peter Hitchens that he is anti-British, globalist neoconservative, but he helps provide a little balance to the BBC-Gurdian et al and is undergoing a partly manufactured scandal and outrage.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14241915 – closed at 149. Note the Likes and dislikes.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-14232657 – closed Thursday after 304, from about 10-5.30. Not the plug-pulling final comments.
Nothing since.
Interesting.