Has Katz & Co ever been in a pub? Maybe he was thinking wine bar….
Evan Davis has now been appointed to the newsnight role, to assemble what Katz has called the “smartest, most interesting (and entertaining) group of people”.
He hinted Russell Brand could play a future role in the programme, though not as a presenter, after Paxman’s interview with him became one of the most talked-about moments in Newsnight history.
When asked what he had planned for Newsnight, as Davis joins a new era of presenters, Katz added: “In a complicated, messy world where we are all bombarded with news, I think Newsnight should be the group of clever friends you want to sit down with in the pub at the end of a long day and make sense of what is going on in the world.”
Jeremy Paxman did not wish to comment.
Jeremy Paxman did not wish to comment. Says it all really.
And at least we know what to expect from the highbrow party animals….more hyping immigration……
I’m sure Evan has already given this fellow a job…of a sort.
Judging by the guests I just saw discussing the Referendum and Communist vs Blairite notions of Britishness with the dreadful Ms Wark, Katz’s virtual “pub” is one whose windows I’d like to see Adam Ant throw his car-alternator through.
That’s a bit of a blow…
Not the sort of pub i’d wish to spend any time in, with a bunch of self centred, conceited, know it all progressive fuckwitts taking up valuable oxygen.
I’d probably have lamped one of the smarmy feckers after my 5th pint of Stella.
“Katz, who moved to the BBC from the Guardian, has caused some raised eyebrows after making editorial changes at Newsnight, including commissioning light-hearted pieces involving Kirsty Wark dancing to Thriller and Emily Maitlis interviewing the Cookie Monster. ”
“He hinted Russell Brand could play a future role in the programme, though not as a presenter, after Paxman’s interview with him became one of the most talked-about moments in Newsnight history”
As for Katz’s quote from Obama “In a complicated, messy world …”
Words fail.
Another BBC ‘Flagship’ news programme fatally holed beneath the water line. First Panorama, now Newsnight.
The BBC’s raison d’etre is fast diminishing to zero. Hopefully just in time for the next charter renewal.
“Russell Brand could play a future role in the programme…. after Paxman’s interview with him became one of the most talked-about moments in Newsnight history.”
I seem to recall that a lot of the talk about this “most talked-about moment” was about Newsnight descending to the level of taking a moral and intellectual cretin like Brand seriously.
With Russell Brand, Ian Katz could turn Newsnight into a comedy show like Citizen Smith, with a Communist Education section, with Brand as a Robert Lindsey type character, telling the viewer what the BBC Newsnight Newspeak is today.
Waddayoumean, “could” , it already is.
I think the BBC’s love of Russell Brand and their obsession with including him where they can adequately sums up this divisive and inappropriate organization.
Newsnight, Panorama and the Daily Politics were the three things I have kept iplayer bookmarked for so I can watch them occasionally.
Now it’s down to one of the above. How long is Brillo likely to last given that the BBC is descending into dumb and dumber part duh.
Most organisations that were losing so many long standing respected presenters would ask why, but not the BBC.
What’s up, its fastidious post on the topic of media print, we all be aware of
media is a wonderful source of facts.
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‘To Jeremy Paxman my ideas were ‘preposterous’, ‘infantile’ or ‘completely lamentable’: Ian Katz lifts the lid on Newsnight ‘
http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/to-jeremy-paxman-my-ideas-were-preposterous-infantile-or-completely-lamentable-ian-katz-lifts-the-lid-on-newsnight-9728750.html?origin=internalSearch
‘For someone heading a news programme famed for attack-dog interviews, Ian Katz, editor of Newsnight, seems remarkably nervous as we shake hands at his BBC office. He’s trembling like a whippet, his jaw pounding gum at around 100bpm.’
‘The clothes, at least, are relaxed: open-necked shirt revealing a rugged thatch, rolled sleeves, faded black jeans and lots of tousled hair. Overall, the look is Eighties heart-throb, a sort of Jewish Patrick Swayze in his Dirty Dancing heyday.’
“Overall, the look is Eighties heart-throb, a sort of Jewish Patrick Swayze in his Dirty Dancing heyday.’
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That’s nice.
Thing is ‘the look’ of an editor is pretty much of zero value outside of the peroxide-sink circuit he clearly wishes to appeal to.
His abilities and contribution are more critical, and now already a matter of ignoble record.
Down the old Newsnight slipway he goes.
I wonder how much it will cost the licence fee payer when he has to be recirculated via a side-step & ‘promotion’ like so many other market rate talents?
Is that the same Ms Wark who always dressed like a undertaker during the Tory years.?
Yes the same Ms Wark who is good friends with that waste of space biggot Gordon Clown
“Russell Brand is duller than even the grimmest political interview”
http://www.spectator.co.uk/columnists/rod-liddle/9309752/russell-brand-is-duller-than-even-the-grimmest-political-interview/
Thanks for the heads up …..very funny and looks like Russell will be a welcome addition to the clever and beautiful people at the swarees down the Red Lion:
‘That’s why I enjoy my mornings in bed with Russell. It’s like a condensed version of a particularly bad edition of the Guardian, filtered through the veins of an imbecile. Russell told the world not so long ago that there was no point in voting because it changes nuffink, innit. The sort of thing you hear not from the pub bore, but from the bedraggled halfwit in the corner with his half pint of Guinness, who even the pub bore finds insuperably tedious.’
“Red Lion”……Nahhhh, that sounds far too rough for these delicate luvvies…there might be men in there, English men who drink pints of beer.
More likely to be in “The Queens” or “The Prince Albert”
Brand would have lasted about 30 seconds in my old local in Wolverhampton before being tossed (my choice of word) into the street via one of the remaining plate glass windows. F**king media whore, no talent, famous for being famous, part of the “I interview you, you interview me” circuit that passes for “entertainment” in 2014 UK. Symptomatic of absolutely everything that is wrong with broadcast media in Britain today. Worthless little shite.
Ian’s statement is missing the words ‘leftie’ before ‘friends’ and ‘socialist’ before ‘sense’:
“In a complicated, messy world where we are all bombarded with news, I think Newsnight should be the group of clever friends you want to sit down with in the pub at the end of a long day and make sense of what is going on in the world.”
Bravo, spot on.
If the wretched Katz wants to give Russell Brand a regular slot on Newsnight that’s fine – as long as he obeys the BBC’s duty to impartiality and also gives someone from the complete opposite side of the spectrum – let’s say someone like Douglas Murray – an equally regular spot.
Sound fair? Sound impartial? So fair and impartial that the BBC will doubtless do nothing of the sort. After all, the BBC exists solely for the self-edification and taxpayer-funded employment of boorish left wing ‘meeja’ graduates. They find any insistence that they actually pay more than lip-service to the Charter requirement for impartiality nothing less than a tedious detail not worth bothering about.
Which is why they never do.
“let’s say someone like Douglas Murray” or better still Pat Condell.
More chance of the BBC doing a re-run on prime time of “It ain’t half hot mum” than seeing Pat Condell as a guest speaker on Newsnight.
It would be good journalism and proof of true impartiality to have the likes of Pat Condell debating on Newsnight and other so called ‘Informative’ programs, but of course it is the frequent appearance of what is perceived as ‘right wing’ commentators to debate ‘left wing’ commentators on Fox News that causes rage and panic in the BBC and other preserves of the Left.
Pat would run rings around Brand, which is why the Anti-British Broadcasting Corpse will never do it. Their idea of balance is Left vs Further Left. Their political compass is so skewed I don’t think they even know what “balance” is.
Yes they do! Balance is a set of scales with two weights, both placed on the same tray – the one on the left.
or ITV doing a re-run of ‘love thy neighbour’
‘He hinted Russell Brand could play a future role in the programme…..’
So a bunch of ex-Guardianistas could be joined by a celebrity half-wit who rails against capitalism and democracy but hasn’t a clue what he’d replace it with, and a new presenter who during his time on Today has made his distaste for everything Tory abundantly clear.
Can anyone explain how this programme will stand any chance at all of being impartial, let alone taken seriously?
Paxman himself hits the nail on the head:
Earlier this year, Paxman hinted at a difference of opinion behind the scenes at Newsnight, saying the people who made it were still idealistic.
Speaking at an event to publicise his book, he told a member of the audience: “Look, Newsnight is made by 13-year-olds. It’s perfectly normal when you’re young that you want to change the world. The older you get, the more you realise what a fools’ errand much of that is.”
Once you’ve played the game, pocketed the (taxpayers) money and done a runner…..
Katz = “I think Newsnight should be the group of clever friends you want to sit down with in the pub at the end of a long day and make sense of what is going on in the world.”
What he means is that you will pay for the drinks that they will enjoy, but won’t be able to participate in offering any of your views on what is going on in the world, which is how they can consider themselves as clever.
‘Clever friends’, along the lines of Russell Brand, yes infantile, preposterous and lamentable seems quite an accurate view by Paxman.
Privatise these parasitical morons, let’s at least enjoy watching them reap their true place in the scheme of things, and their finding out just how clever they really are.
To the young blonde Latvian I would just like to say, Goodbye thanks for dropping in, don’t let the door knob hit your overworked ass on the way out.
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Is Evan’s Latvian pal gay, like Evan? Was anything spitroasted at the BBQ at which Evan met him?
In that pub I think it would take 8-10 stella , you know, before that casual saunter over to Warky!!