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Quote from: Ldr on April 30, 2020, 12:41:51 pmApart from the fear and outrage agendas that I have spoken about before. Reporting in the country has moved from reporting fact to reporting opinion and feeling, listen to the questions asked at the conferences Ldr.I'm not sure if that was in response to my posts, so forgive me if I've misread.If it was, it misses the point. Kuenssberg here is not reporting "fact" or "opinion". She's acting as a conduit whereby, through her No10 controls the news agenda. What a political editor SHOULD do is, yes, report facts but dissect them. Analyse them in light of other issues. Look at what they mean for likely policy implications. How they fit with political objectives. What the consequences are likely to be.In doing that, she should be synthesising information from several sources and helping the reader make sense of complex situations.Kuenssberg rarely does any of that. She just repeats what somebody in No10 has whispered to her.
Apart from the fear and outrage agendas that I have spoken about before. Reporting in the country has moved from reporting fact to reporting opinion and feeling, listen to the questions asked at the conferences
Quote from: BillyStubbsTears on April 30, 2020, 01:24:53 pmQuote from: Ldr on April 30, 2020, 12:41:51 pmApart from the fear and outrage agendas that I have spoken about before. Reporting in the country has moved from reporting fact to reporting opinion and feeling, listen to the questions asked at the conferences Ldr.I'm not sure if that was in response to my posts, so forgive me if I've misread.If it was, it misses the point. Kuenssberg here is not reporting "fact" or "opinion". She's acting as a conduit whereby, through her No10 controls the news agenda. What a political editor SHOULD do is, yes, report facts but dissect them. Analyse them in light of other issues. Look at what they mean for likely policy implications. How they fit with political objectives. What the consequences are likely to be.In doing that, she should be synthesising information from several sources and helping the reader make sense of complex situations.Kuenssberg rarely does any of that. She just repeats what somebody in No10 has whispered to her.BST, that last sentence........how could you possibly know that to be a fact.
Quote from: Ldr on April 30, 2020, 12:41:51 pmApart from the fear and outrage agendas that I have spoken about before. Reporting in the country has moved from reporting fact to reporting opinion and feeling, listen to the questions asked at the conferences The way I see it is that the media (and especially the newspapers, who have been losing money all over the place) have been sacking so many people to save money that they don't employ real journalists any more, they now employ glorified data gatherers who either reprint press releases that someone else has written or nick stories from one another instead of going out and doing the job properly. Anything to fill space as quickly and cheaply as possible.
Although that report is a preface to what may or may not be said by the PM later. I would expect more of a critique after the PM has spoken.?The cynical mind could suggest that the PM taking the briefing today is to deflect from the probable failure to meet the test target..
Quote from: IDM on April 30, 2020, 12:02:40 pmAlthough that report is a preface to what may or may not be said by the PM later. I would expect more of a critique after the PM has spoken.?The cynical mind could suggest that the PM taking the briefing today is to deflect from the probable failure to meet the test target..I haven't seen any critique from Kuenssberg after the PM spoke.I HAVE seen her tweet several video clips of him speaking, with no comment from her.And I have seen her re-tweet a story from a colleague about anti-Semitism in the Labour party. So she's been busy.
IDMBut like I say, the job of ANY Political Editor, and absolutely the one at the BBC, is supposed to be to go past the superficial and the trivial, and to inform the viewer or reader about what the real factors are in the various political issues. They are meant to weigh up evidence, scrutinise it and indicate to the audience what is going on under the surface.Kuenssberg barely pays lip service to that task. She, far more often, breathlessly reports "well this is what *I* have heard" like a playground gossip. And Cummings, for all his failings, ain't stupid. He latched onto that a good while ago and he plays her like a puppeteer. Feeding her the information that he wants to roll out into the news. While Kuenssberg smugly thinks she's being a brilliant investigative journalist because so many of her pieces are prefixed by, "A senior Govt source says..."
Cleared in a government enquiry Billy reported in the Independent and the Guardian ( Bible). Do I detect a sense of disappointment?
The Whitehall process which is believed to have cleared Priti Patel over allegations she bullied her staff has been condemned as secretive and biased, as pressure grows to release the report.A leak of the internal investigation – overseen by the cabinet secretary, on Boris Johnson’s instructions – says it has found has found no evidence the home secretary mistreated civil servants.However, the report is not expected to be published immediately – and is not the end of Ms Patel’s troubles, after she was engulfed by a “tsunami of allegations” at three different departments.Philip Rutnam, who sensationally quit as the Home Office’s top civil servant in February, alleging Ms Patel was behind a “vicious” campaign against him, is claiming constructive dismissal at an employment tribunal, to be held in public.Dave Penman, the head of the FDA union of senior civil servants, attacked the way Ms Patel was investigated internally and the leak of the conclusions to a friendly newspaper.Watch more Priti Patel is missing in action and asylum seekers pay the price“It tells you everything that is wrong with investigations under the ministerial code that a process which is not written down, which contains no rights for those who might complain, that is determined in secret, alone by a prime minister who has already pledged his allegiance to the minister in advance, and which allows no right to transparency or challenge for anyone who complained, would then be leaked on the evening before the home secretary is due to appear before the home affairs select committee,” he told The Guardian.