On Monday Boris Johnson asked Paxman what he earns at least five times during the course of their interview. Newsnight decided to cut the segment from broadcast:
THE BBC was blasted last night over claims it cut parts of an interview where Boris Johnson attacked Jeremy Paxman over his wages.
It is claimed the London Mayor demanded “five or six times” to know the BBC anchor’s taxpayer-funded salary – thought to be £1million a year…
Johnson said: “We didn’t get an answer for that by the way – about your earnings.”
The BBC last night said cuts were due to programme timings and views were “fairly reflected”. Mayoral aides have called for the unedited interview to go out online.
The BBC’s tax-dodging superstars do not like it up ’em.
More on this from the All Seeing Eye.
(Hat tips to anyone and everyone who has mentioned this in the comments.)
By the way , will the Tories’ public sector pay freeze apply to the BBC ?
Nick Robinson, Jeremy Paxman, Hazel Blears all obsessed about the Bullingdon Club. Personally I’m more interested in some of the associations politicians and media personnel have had with commie clubs.
The BBC attack line is set in stone and tallies with the labour line perfectly.
Class war/jealousy/toffs/splits/cuts/europe and they keep on picking and picking at these points with the relentless fervour of Maos red guard.
I am all for bringing ALL polititians to account and forcing them to answer difficult questions but the BBC seem to have one posture for the Tories and quite another for the leftists/greens, its as though the BBC are bringing their emotional state into work with them and applying that emotional signal to everthing they do.
I really wish the BBC would grow up, they come across as petulant prejudiced middle class neo toffs whose mental development seized up at uni, how many of them actually grew up in hunger and despair with violent parents or within the influence of a violent school system etc, I wonder if they really know what poverty really is?
But perfectly OK for Marr to use the same tactics against Dave on Sunday morning. Hypocrites.
The BBC. It’s (do as we say, not) what we do.
The hypocracy here is that the people flinging the mud around about toff tories are themselves sitting pretty on salaries worth hundreds or millions of pounds a year and all most likely have huge estates!
Yet not once have I ever heard al beeb pulling labour up on this line of attack.
Mailman
LOL. To ‘enhancing the narrative’, ‘interpreting events’ and ‘facilitating the emergence of truths’ (that one is mine, describing an action in response to those words), I can now add ‘fair relections’.
Trouble is, all those are still rather prone to interpretation, subject to personal opinion, can be guided by corporate agenda, and hence easily stray from the professional line of journalistic balance and objectivity.
Especially when viewed through the rosiest tinted glasses that tend to ensure that ‘if we say it must be true, and hence OK’.
When you see such as this with your own eyes, and read the facts surrounding them, it beggars belief that this shambles are given £3.5B+ of licence fee funders’ hard-earned to play with.
And now they are being nailed, daily, by the simple tool of their own words and deeds, they are falling apart at the seams.
The edit suite is a powerful tool. Use it with care. Abuse it with caution.
Word is spreading…
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http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/davidhughes/100012810/ben-bradshaw-does-it-again/
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Paxman asked the Golden Bufoon the same question about wanting a referendum on Lisbon several times in a row, as I pointed out on another thread. Boris kept saying yes, he did want one, even going on at length that the British people should have the chance they were denied by the Labour government. Yet Paxman kept asking him over and over again did he want a referendum or not, pretending that Boris hadn’t answered it.
Never understood this worshiping of Paxman, he’s a third rate interviewer always looking to trip someone up rather than actually interview them. Hopeless man,
I suspect Mr. Paxman is in a bit of snit at being outed and bested by a Conservative and has decided toys must be arranged ex-pram, if this is anything to go by:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/fromthewebteam/2009/10/jeremy_paxmans_manchester_miss.html#commentsanchor
Never thought I’d see sneering in print form, but it has been managed.
Thing is, in the spirit of objectivity, one wonders if he really needs, indeed should be quite so overtly partisan in his distaste.
Toenails in full force on the BBc news slagging off Dannatt and Chris Grayling. For starters I heard the full interview with Grayling (funny that he was slipped up by a beeboid eh?) where he actually welcomed Dannatt into the Labour Government so long as it wasn’t a stunt by Brown, this bit was missed off by the BBC, why?
Then the Toenails starts attacking Dannatt for supporting the Tories giving out the Gorgon Brown crap about undermining troops morals. Utter crap Toenails, it’s this failed corrupt cowardly Government that has underfunded and under equipped our soldiers and stuck them in an unwinnable war, oh and I don’t remember Toenails having a problem with the ex Met police chief allowing Support Liebour stickers on Police cars and him personally supporting Government policies (like the 90 day detention)
The BBC really are a pathetic bunch of useless left wing nonces and Toenails in the biggest one of all.
Oh and the BBC’s coverage of the tory conference has been pathetic, with just a couple of minutes mostly of Toenails whining, I seem to remember the Liebour conference got a lot more airtime and very pro coverage from Toenails last week.