AIBU to think Laura Kuenssberg should be sacked?

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Apologies if this is is/has been discussed elsewhere; I expected there to be a thread already but I can't find anything ...

LK is the BBC's political editor, but shows no sign of being fair, impartial or balanced in her reporting. She seems to have a passionate, unchecked loathing of Jeremy Corbyn/the Labour Party - an obsession almost - and is making the BBC News unwatchable for everyone in our house - even the kids have picked up on her twitching, sour face when she's reporting on anything Corbyn-related! Surely this revelation about her part in engineering for Stephen Doughty to resign live on Daily Politics crosses a line where the new isn't being reported it's being manipulated and spun for entertainment/propaganda and she is a delighted participant who is failing to report in the public interest?

I think the problem is the Corbyn led Labour Party not the BBC. If you sit there eating your young over a prolonged period you're going to get some negative press. As a lifelong Labour supporter I find it utterly depressing but I don't blame the BBC. I blame every member who voted for Corbyn.

I cannot understand why a shadow cabinet reshuffle has taken precedence over more, imho, important stories like the disgraceful events in Cologne

Blame those members who voted for JC for WHAT exactly, Northern? I don't see your point? For electing someone the mainstream media and the establishment hates? Goes with being in opposition if you're doing your job right. However ... The BBC is supposed to be above vested interests, but - in the case of Kuenssberg et al - no longer even pretending that this is the case.

exactly, BOOP. & flooding & Syria & the housing bill.

'a shadow cabinet 'reshuffle' in fact as it was so small. and he's got a majority of women on it now - they haven't mentioned that.

they must have scheduled loads of time for it on the assumption that H Benn would go. that really spoiled their fun

I blame every member who voted for Corbyn

totally agree NorthernLurker

Labour are the opposition they are not some small backbench party with a few mp's. he is the leader he needs to makes Labour and himself newsworthy with their policies, their objections, their fight against the Tory party there is so much they could comment on not just politics in the UK but around the world yet so little is said no good moaning no one is on our side they never have been get over it

"Channel 4 news is superior to everything else. Even more so as everything else deteriorates"

Agree

the events in Cologne have been censored everywhere it is a disgrace and yes shame on the BBC

he's got a majority of women on it now - they haven't mentioned that

Yes they have.

Even though Emily Thornberry has admitted she has no idea why she has the job

No OP - I'm blaming them for voting in a long term backbencher with zero government experience, dubious leadership ability, no inclination to conciliate and very limited domestic political experience.

The BBC (not unlike the Gaurdian) haven't covered Cologne much as they are terrified of being described as racist. They seem terribly relaxed about appearing mysogynist though.

I quite like Laura K. She just has a lot of Edinburgh mannerisms.

well yes, they mentioned it or I wouldn't have known

it's hardly been a big part of the reshuffle news though, has it.

The News Quiz is just being very funny about it all

in the first five days of 2016, Twitter had been subject to thirty speculative, often opinionated tweets from Kuenssberg about Labour’s reshuffle. Doesn’t seem so bad, right? Perhaps not. But this is in comparison to zero tweets on rail fares, zero tweets on the Housing & Planning Bill, one tweet on the floods which have ravaged the country and eight on the cataclysmic divide in the Conservative Party over their membership of the European Union

evolvepolitics.com/bbc-admit-intentionally-damaging-corbyn-leadership-contrived-live-resignation/

any of her defenders care to comment on that?

She's the politics correspondent. Maybe she finds protracted reshuffles interesting?

I am generally a labour voter and was prepared to give Corbyn a chance. But come on, he is dreadful and no amount of conspiracy theory bull crap can disguise it.

Fair enough Northern - but Burnham, Cooper and (to a lesser extent) Kendall failed to offer any inspiring, credible alternative imho. Impossible to say whether their treatment on BBC would have been any different, but for what it's worth I suspect so ... More a case of general ignoring than daily shredding I think.

Not just Cologne. Also Helsinki.

Burnham, Cooper and Kendall were uninspiring but we'll never know now if they were quite as incompetent as Corbyn.

The Tories went through the wilderness years after Major. Maybe it is just a political cycle?

Kuennsberg certainly should not be working for the state broadcaster. She is a disgrace to broadcast journalism and that in itself is saying something.

But if you're shocked by how she treat's Corbyn's Labour you should see the treatment she reserves for the SNP.

Prior to the referendum she made a programme about independence. The unashamed and sneering bias was breathtaking. Even many unionists were embarrassed.

Integrity - zero.
Professionalism - zero.
Talent - zero.

She should definitely be hunted from the BBC. People deserve a lot better for their licence fee.

The BBC is so far left it is embarrassing and can occasionally be clearly biased in that direction on air.

Finest - Political correspondent tweets on party political 'developments' is hardly a shock is it? BBC politics, ITN politics, Blessed Channel 4 - they all watch Westminster first. Given the farce the 'reshuffle' became one wonders why Jeremy bothered. Mind you he was obviously keen to get rid of people who disagreed with him - and what kind of screwed up position is that for such a staunch democrat to be in?

Incidentally in the LK piece I've read she does explicitly say the number of women has increased.

Maggie Thatcher hated the BBC.

Northern - eight tweets on the cataclysmic divide in the Conservative Party over their membership of the European Union

???

"The BBC (not unlike the Gaurdian) haven't covered Cologne much as they are terrified of being described as racist. They seem terribly relaxed about appearing mysogynist though."

YY!

Ive never noticed her before yesterday when I thought wtf is that person sneering as she was talking about Corbyn. Very obvious she disliked him.

even the kids have picked up on her twitching, sour face

You lost me here OP.