Bishop Hill points out why Katz ticks many of the BBC’s boxes when it comes to recruiting talent as demonstrated by this article by Katz demanding action on climate change:
The beauty of 10:10 is that it’s both achievable and meaningful
The world’s response to global warming is a classic case of all mouth and no trousers. This new initiative aims to show that we can all act now – and achieve something significant.
Future generations writing the history of climate change may be struck by an apparent paradox: while millions of educated people – perhaps most of them – alive in the first decade of the 21st century acknowledged the threat posed by the buildup of greenhouse gasses and their part in creating it, only a tiny number did anything about it…..the rise of liberal individualism has made it harder, if anything, to forge collective responses to problems that do not threaten our short-term self-interest…..[and] reflects a profound failure of leadership by the political classes of all the world’s major nations.
However the BBC might not be so pleased, Harrabin in particular, with his love of the dreaded ‘Blogger’ and Social Media which he says has transformed how they gather and report News at the Guardian:
Ian katz..a rough translation of…..
Journalists traditionally thought of their stories as like a tablet of stone that they released…to educate and inform the Public.…but we realise that is just the start point, merely telling people what we know at a particular time…whilst our readers then help us get to the bottom of the story….a collaborative relationship with readers without which we wouldn’t have broken many of the biggest stories in the Guardian….
So you know what to do…help Newsnight out…they need all they can get with their journalism:
or
By post
Our postal address is: : BBC Newsnight, Zone D, 3rd Floor, BBC Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London, UK, W1A 1AA.
Don’t expect much ‘Spectator’ criticism of appointment of ‘Guardian’s leftie KATZ to BBC ‘Newsnight’; after all, the Political Editor of ‘The Spectator’, James Forsyth, is married to the Political Editor of BBC ‘Newsnight’, Allegra Stratton, (ex-‘Guardian’).
“Ian Katz is the new editor of Newsnight”
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/steerpike/2013/05/ian-katz-is-the-new-editor-of-newsnight/
The left is so inbred I’m surprised they don’t change their religion.
(BTW Katz’s wife runs Mumsnet, the leftist professional women’s group.)
According to this Katz was the genius who masterminded the fatuous Guardian campaign to derail Bush’s 2004 presidential campaign in Clark County, Ohio. Not just a lefty journalist but an activist (are there any others?). The probability of Katz leaving his opinions – and activism – at the Newsnight door is vanishingly small.
But he hasn’t publicly stated support for Israel, so there’s no cause for concern.
So then it is a Climate Change scandal at Newsnight, that’s being covered up by Lord Hall.
The proud intellectual boasters told me that it involved a bogus sceptic, but I have not heard anything about it for a couple of months.
“The BBC hires (another) Guardian journalist”
By Janet Daley.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/janetdaley/100217261/the-bbc-hires-another-guardian-journalist/
“New boss, same bias.
“First, the new BBC director general makes New Labourite James Purnell his strategy director. Now, with the appointment of Guardian veteran Ian Katz to edit Newsnight, Tony Hall adds another Left-winger to his stable.
“With a political editor who was also at the Guardian, and an ex-Trotskyist as economics editor, Mr Katz will be among soulmates on the programme.
“One question: how can ‘new broom’ Lord Hall claim, with a straight face, that the BBC is politically unbiased?”
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2326394/DAILY-MAIL-COMMENT-Green-shoots-Tories.html#ixzz2TeqibZMo
That should have read “New bias. Same as the old bias.”