Friday 3 October 2008

Now I know things are bad

Just posted the comment below Guido's. Apart from the very odd footie match I only really watch Newsnight on Telly. This is now being replaced by CNBC and Sky News. Sad how much things have developed....








"The whole programme last night was flawed. Red Ken and Paddick, both defeated by Boris and laying into him. A Labour Government minister also oddly deciding Boris had done wrong. One Tory who was only allowed to speak under 4 way cross-examination. Barely a mention of any scandal.

Funny, no member of say the de Menezes family on for balance?

AND

Then on comes 'marxist' Paul Mason to warn the world is doomed without massive government intervention everywhere in the economy.

Worse he says, the Irish, the Yanks and the Europeans are going to do it...we'll be last in the gravy queue of socialism. As if somehow Gordon and Alistair throwing all our good money after bad is the only idea in town. His piece to Paxo almost ended in tears (his, Paxo seemed out of his depth).

I used to love Newsnight, it is a disgrace these days.

11 comments:

Old BE said...

They barely mentioned the fact that Chris Huhne backed Boris' right to determine who is the Commissioner. The Tories should have put somebody a bit more coherent up, though.

I often get to the end of Newsnight and think to myself "I won't get that 50 minutes back".

Bill Quango MP said...

I never used to believe in anti right wing conspiracy theories about the BBC. I thought its just being in opposition everything seems biased.

No longer! It really is amazing. This Week, which tries much harder, has also been less than 'impartial'

Why they don't employ 3 partisan people to just look over the programs,listen to the headlines and report back on the news stories
is a mystery.

I'm convinced the BBC thinks its impartial. But it is institutionally politicised.

Old BE said...

They start out with a basic assumption then report the news through that prism. The other day Newsnight talked about third-world poverty but didn't stop to ask whether state-to-state aid was the best policy. This morning the Today programme reported on the Boris/Ian business but had nobody on asking whether Labour Home Secretaries had already politicised the post - they just reported what Jacqui F* Smith had said on Question Time.

The BBC needs to be cut in size by about 90%.

Nick Drew said...

with today's re-shuffle announcements I am ever more convinced that in the last 2 weeks, the Beeb has been taken aside by Brown's (newly-reinforced) machine and had its fortune read for it

"the Tories are going to scrap you anyway, so your only hope lies in doing exactly what we say"

Anonymous said...

I think your wrong to pick on Newsnight because it is the whole BBC that is becoming increasingly open about their rampant support for anything Labour. Virtually every report and programme can be said to be either PC or pro Labour.

The whole rotten edifice that is the BBC needs pulling down and the bits taken away by architectural salvage companies to be sold off cheap.

The whole coverage of the Blair issue seems to centre around Boris having tacitly sacked him, which he did not; Blair resigned because Boris thought he was a twat and said so.

I genuinely think something is in the offing that the BBC and MSM are keeping quiet about with regards to privatisation or the like and the BBC are desperate to keep the Labour party in power.

I can see no other reason.

Anonymous said...

I'm surprised you lasted as long as you did, I gave up on all BBC news output years ago.

CityUnslicker said...

Nick - that seems very clear to me too.

roym said...

Bill, what are you on about?
portillo was on "this week" trying to pin the banks' poor activities and their sorry balances on g.brown alone, as if they had no choices of their own!
more anti beeb garbage from you lot!

Anonymous said...

Hey this is one of the stupidest postings ever written on this site, no? I was not advocating a state bailout of deposits; I was warning that the UK would have to do it if everybody else does. And now it looks like everybody else IS doing it. Was it not, matey, the precise public service you pay for when you pay your licence fee? Maybe I should have not mentioned it in the hope that it would go away? By the way I am not a "marxist". Apart from that, and distorting what I said into its exact opposite, your posting was really insightful.

Keep it up. We need more comedy in these dark days.

Paul Mason
Economics Editor
BBC Newsnight

rwendland said...

Well said Paul.

Just looked at the Friday Newsnight, where Paul Mason said the new National Economic Council was "a lot of cuff-links around one table ... twice a week" which so far seems to have no very clear function, but is based on the notion that it will improve cross-department co-ordination. That was hardly New Labour spin through the BBC.

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