Rejoiner petulance isn't confined to the BBC. Though today only the Guardian, Mirror and the i paper have Cummings on the front pages, Sky news and the BBC's 'Today' are gamely trying to brace the story's collapsing legs. This collapse has, if anything, infuriated even further the hysterical blow-hard rejoiners in the media. They're used to getting their own way, and like infants in a tantrum find it very hard to accept that this time they're not.
The events of the past few days do raise a very serious national security question. We all know the media are in a dire financial position due to the effects of the Wuhan virus. Would a foreign state or group of states facing defeat and humiliation in existential international trade talks be prepared to throw a few hundred millions at key players in their opponent's mass media to game the playing field? The sudden and co-ordinated assault by the MSM, including the Telegraph, in an effort to destroy the team at Number 10 over what is in effect a triviality hint that factors beyond innate newsworthiness could have been at play. The good guys in the security services - and there must be some loyal to the democratically elected government - should do some discreet digging.
Of course most of the reptiles would have used their organs to try to sabotage the final stage of Brexit in any event. But as even Private Eye, which used to keep an eye on the rest of the reptiles, has now joined the establishment vivarium, we have no popular watchdog. As they say
Thank God one cannot bribe or twist
the honest British journalist
But seeing what the man will do
unbribed there is no reason to
the honest British journalist
But seeing what the man will do
unbribed there is no reason to
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There's an argument that dead tree Journalism has been dying for years. Most of the regional press is either in a 'free paper' or a group of local papers under a single owner that mostly exist by advertising. Only the 'premier league' of journalism (the big National papers and broadcasters) swan on not acknowledging the death of their trade. When did you last see regular investigative journalism (of the old style)?
Not only does the wind of political change blow against the interests of the Clerisy Middle Class world wide, the journalists within that class must realise that their beneficial employment is dying. Whether some foreign state sees any value in buying into this last hurrah is open to doubt.
We've disestablished the Catholic Church, and the Church of England is a quaint holdover which exists on political indifference. Perhaps we should disestablish the BBC (and Channel 4) and allow the other MSM organs to fade away? We certainly shouldn't support them.
Maitless has considerable "form" when it comes to biased, partisan "reporting." Since she doesn't even attempt to uphold the BBC's requirement for impartiality, she must have used up the "warnings" in the disciplinary process by now.
She should be sacked.
At least Private Eye does run one annual competition for investigative journalism.
Emily spoke the truth, and power didn't like it. What Dommy tried was that old legal device 'a different interpretation of the facts'. Anyone else tried his Durham excuse and a fine would be forthcoming no question. Further and better particulars to come.
For amusement you might try David Allen Green's dissection of Dommy's statement. Free to listen courtesy of the FT. Essentially Dommy's statement has got the smell of lawyers rising from every word. Lawyers are useful things but some can be hired as professional liars and as assistants to professional liars. Listen and draw your own conclusions.
Essentially non of this matters a sh*t, we know the handling of the virus is a crock of poo. Even Slithy Gove has admitted we had no ppe stocks 'but we had purchase plans...'. Track and trace is to be run by a well known incompetent and Priti's quarantines look like passing into history.
Now I would have a sneaking admiration for this approach - it rewards the worthless, is cheap, cunning and dumps the risk on the hoi polloi without them catching on. But my admiration is dimmed by it being so incompetently managed.
Never mind, June is coming and the Brexit talks are coming up. To delay or not to delay, that is the question.
Aw, come on Raedwald.
The "final stage" of brexit - a word which means whatever they want it to mean - over which your mob of followers appear to fantasise, is mountains of corpses - of those whom they hate - being bulldozed into lime pits.
Isn't it?
Instead we have fifty thousand plus dead, mainly of the elderly, and therefore of Leave or Tory voters, thanks to the utter ineptitude of those whom they elected.
@Jim
There's logical disconnect in your article. Either Emily Maitlis spoke the truth and power didn't like it... so there will be no "Further and better particulars to come" they will be suppressed - or Emily Maitlis was deluded/politcally motivated and any "Further and better particulars to come" will just be more malicious inventions.
Unless you can reveal those further and better particulars, of course.
Dear Mr.(Or am I being presumtious) Raedwald, thank you for your light hand on the big blocking button.
A little nonsense, as Mr. Lear knew, is invigorating as I scroll down to the Older Post request.
jim 08:37, she did not speak the truth and that was why she got a slap. It is CLEAR she had her script already prepared but as DC had cut the legs of "He resigned" she just blurted her tirade of lies anyway.
Also, hoi polloi doesn't need 'the' in front of it, sadly many do as you do and it is almost the norm.
Anon 08:41 "is mountains of corpses - of those whom they hate - being bulldozed into lime pits"
No, that is definitely 'your side'.
Impressed Span Ows - ancient greek as well!
Hey Psuche ta onta poos estin, or summat.
Que?
;-)
One of the characteristics of trolls is that their language becomes more and more extreme as they keep trying to shock people who dismiss their rants.
Anon 08:41 "is mountains of corpses - of those whom they hate - being bulldozed into lime pits"
Beyond hyperbole, we need new word. Ultrabole?
Trollabole.
I think James Caan was in that wasn't he?
The spirit is the 'how' of life
Heidegger, I think. It's stuck for some reason, along with 'Pater hemon ..'
50,000 dead? Over what period? And how many deaths would have occurred under 'normal' circumstances during that period? How many deaths happened over the same length of time during an annual flu outbreak? How many of the reported deaths were FROM Corona rather than WITH Corona?
The whole exercise has been BS from start to finish and we've achieved the net sum of fuckall for the inconvenience and expense not to mention the job losses. Heads need to roll and we should start with media exaggeration and scaremongering - a media that seeks "fact checking" for us but considers their own lies and obfuscation a SOP.
The hypocrisy is rank, embarrassing and excessive. Track and trace? Piss off.
Rather like the Gilligan/WMD fuss, a slap down, a slow burn and eventually, when it no longer matters, the truth comes out. Durham police say they are investigating Cummings, plenty of people despise Cummings and something may yet slip out. Then the headline '14,000 Brits Could Now Appeal Lockdown Fines thanks to DC'. Loads of fun and wasted resources to come.
The chap is plainly no genius and no strategy for anything is in sight, the chap is a liability. The mood music is changing, the skids are being greased.
As for wicked dark forces plotting to subvert the noble British media, as if. When one sees one's enemy making a mistake - don't interfere. Dark forces just have to sit back and watch and then turn up when the jumble sale gets going.
Wikipedia: Yellow journalism and the yellow press are American terms for journalism and associated newspapers that present little or no legitimate well-researched news while instead using eye-catching headlines for increased sales. Techniques may include exaggerations of news events, scandal-mongering, or sensationalism.
How disconcerting that most of our own MSM is now 'Yellow'
I am barley understand what your trolls are spouting.
Stop trying to sound clever. You just read as unhinged.
Please try and make you poking with some clarity.
I recall when you used to wank on about spoonface.
For years I thought you meant Thornberry.
Make your wide observation. The start fapping off about.
Ps. Why would we have ten million spare ,masks lying around? For what purpose...oh this? This pandemic..
But these masks are single use. And have a use by. And we haven’t had a pandemic in 100 years.
So you advocate The NHS hold a billion pounds in reserve in case of a comet rare event.
Fine.
Which hospital closes to fund this?
jim 12:04
Now you're getting troll-like!
"Durham police say they are investigating Cummings"
Durham police has SPECIFICALLY and clearly said they are not investigating Cummings.
"Then the headline '14,000 Brits Could Now Appeal Lockdown Fines thanks to DC'. Loads of fun and wasted resources to come."
Zero, zero fines that could be appealed have been given. Most fines or cases up to now haven't got to court even as the cases break down. Stop believeing shit, you're better than this.
The BBC is evidenlt evidently hoping no one will raise the question as to how this (and other recent nonsense) has made it to the airwaves.
Even in lockdown, tv has an editorial process that is supposed to ensure presenters don't get to write (and in this instance even rehearse!) their own scripts without the once-over from the producer and/or editor, and if the little madams of either sex or all petulantly dig their heels in, there are higher instances still, news department heads, controllers, and a disciplinary process that can be firmly threatened.
So it seems safe to assume that either one of these well-paid flunkeys saw or at least heard Mailtlis's Rant in advance of the programme, in which case they were severely negligent in not insisting on a radical re-write, or else they simply did not bother to check it, in which case they were equally negligent.
Possibly, just possibly, La Maitlis might be Well Favoured in Very High Places? This can often be used to cow editorial staff (a rather appropriate verb in this context). Female presenters have in the past been known to deliberately charm (to use a neutral word) senior executives, with a view to cutting through all that irksome editorial scrutiny in the studio.
But nowhere a dicky bird about the production/editorial staff - possibly working remotely, I guess, but nonetheless surely capable of doing what it says on their tin. If they're not, then that would certainly explain the even more obvious anti-government lurch BBC news presentation has taken since March.
John Vasc 21:39, the main man on Newsnight is Lewis Goodhall, an ex Guardian full on lefty flouncy twat who is a well know sufferer of BDS. It had his OK...
Given that even the Daily Hate-Mail has suggested that Dominion Scummings ought to go.
WRONG
Actually, whatever mild reproof of the Scummings the female from the Beeb made, it was almost certainly an understatement.
This whole thing tears away the curtain:
We are the Brexsgiuteer masters of the unoverse & you little people can do AS WE SAY, not as we do.
Or, in more old fashioned terms:
YOUR COURAGE, YOUR CHEERFULNESS AND YOUR RESOLUTION WILL BRING US VICTORY ... oops, what a give-away!
"even the Daily Hate-Mail has suggested that Dominion Scummings ought to go."
GregT, the Mail has had an old Etonian arch-remainer editor for some time now. It was of course previously Paul Dacre. In 2017 there was a report that in 2016 PM David Cameron had approached Lord Rothermere with the request that he sack Eurosceptic Paul Dacre, the editor of the Daily Mail in the run up to the 2016 EU membership referendum.
The paper's abrupt change from Leave to Remain, though it is often said to be the wish of Lay R., is more likely to be connected with Rothermere's non-dom tax status, which is in turn dependent on a claim to French nationality as his father was a tax exile in France.
I wonder if the Daily Telegraph's equally shocking about-turn under its own new editor has anything at all to do with the not disimilar position of the B Bros? Maybe all these newspaper owners thought there would be a nice brino stitch-up and they would win-win, and now they're beginning to realize that the game might be up. I fancy they will be playing very dirty between now and Dec. 31st.
The Express is now pretty much the only media voice supporting the brexit policies that elected the current government less than 6 months ago?
"...though it is often said to be the wish of *Lady* R...." apols for typo.
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