Cummings - Well done Emily Maitlis - this deserves a thread to itself.....

I firmly believe he should have resigned or be fired and so do the majority of the public. However this breaches all impartialty rules. The BBC has already stated that the Government's message will not be heard until he does, a very thinly veiled threat. There is increasing desperation among journalists, and the BBC in particular, that they are being denired their "Kill" over the story. He is a very unlikeable man who clearly has no time for those attacking him, but the ferocity of the attack has gone way beyond the norm perhaps because they perceive he is the driving force behind moves to reform the BBC.
 
oldman said:
I firmly believe he should have resigned or be fired and so do the majority of the public. However this breaches all impartialty rules. The BBC has already stated that the Government's message will not be heard until he does, a very thinly veiled threat. There is increasing desperation among journalists, and the BBC in particular, that they are being denired their "Kill" over the story. He is a very unlikeable man who clearly has no time for those attacking him, but the ferocity of the attack has gone way beyond the norm perhaps because they perceive he is the driving force behind moves to reform the BBC.
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It needed to be said. I am so pleased this has happened. As it is balance against the Tory propaganda that Kuenssberg spreads on a regular basis.
 
Cardiffdaffs said:
Of course it needs to be said. And if Oldman it soundss “desperate“ to you maybe take into account the desperate lives that many have had to endure under lockdown and get a grip of the sense of anger that exists. Its not about journalists getting a “kill”
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I know of one example of how someone is feeling about this. This from my cousin's wife. From Facebook yesterday. For reasons of privacy I have removed names.MyCousinsWife.jpg
 
Just like the government trying to cover up Cummings actions, what is done is done and I'm sure that those involved in Newsnight won't lose sleep over it and nor should they. As they said, it's a self defeating argument that they are trying to spin regarding Cummings.
 
Glover_elbow said:
It needed to be said and what she said is true but not in her role as an impartial bbc presenter
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Reasonable people can have differing views though and I'm sure Emily is very reasonable, despite her ignoring or taking a different interpretation of the guidelines on impartiality.
 
Boris has no option but to support him. If anyone knows his skeletons in the cupboard its Cummings.If he was sacked I think there would be some juicy stories in the tabloids within days.
 
BBC have a missed a trick here. Personally I'd have gone for something like:

"Although we haven't acted impartially we accept that some reasonable people may take a different view."

Shame.
 
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