To think it grossly unfair that Emily Maitlis won't be on Newsnight tonight and DC and BJ are still in their jobs?

[theduchessstill]

It just sums up this shit country and the state it's in imo.

Watching Johnson stuttering and blustering his way through the select committee this afternoon showing that he doesn't have a grip on the crisis at all and then finding that Maitlis, who is excellent at her job, has been chastised and suspended feels like yet another blow to decency in the UK. It comes after the government refusing to appear on the show for weeks as well - too scared.

How much longer will this shit go on?

@ferntwist

Baffling that Laura Kuenssberg is still on air. She’s so biased towards Boris Johnson it’s embarrassing.

You must be watching a different LK than me.

Lurker several posters have pointed out that it is your understanding of impartiality that is flawed, so why repeat yourself without engaging with any of those posts? Rude.

CharlottesPleb

So yoou are happy to pay the wages of the persistent liar Dominic Cummings but not of a woman who states a fact.

Absolutely disgusting. I’m furious. She isn’t the problem here.

A personal rant about Cummings breaching lockdown has no place on the BBC.

Particularly not when it reeks of hypocrisy. Maitlis has clearly had a haircut at some point since lockdown started so she's broken the rules on social distancing.

I'm not sure what else she was meant to say. Was she supposed to make a statement like Boris' "Go to work, but go to work..?" 🤷🏻‍♀️

It's coming to something when a journalist can't do their job because people get their knickers in a twist because the facts hurt their feelings.

*CharlottesPleb

So yoou are happy to pay the wages of the persistent liar Dominic Cummings but not of a woman who states a fact.*

No, don't tell me what I said. I suggest you go back and read my last reply, if that is what you took from it.

She's also broken the rules on Newsnight, hence the BBC pulling her! Why can't you lot see this! What does Maitlis think should happen to ppl who break the rules? Or does her own opinion not apply to her.
She has form - last year she libelled Richard Tice and the BBC had to formally apologise to him.

How much longer will this shit go on?

I have no idea - but shit it truly is.

There was nothing in what EM said yesterday that wasn’t true, so I don’t see how what she said can be called partial.

In any case BJ and DC have amongst many other things both hugely damaged the public health message at a time when many people have already died avoidable deaths, so thank God for journalists who do tell it like it is.

That's meant to be Boris' "Go to work, but don't go to work."

The BBC news wing has been under so much pressure to tow the government line since David Cameron started threatening them with their charter.

VenusTiger Wed 27-May-20 22:16:09
She's also broken the rules on Newsnight, hence the BBC pulling her! Why can't you lot see this!

Eh, because she hasn't.

@zoemum2006

What are you talking about? The BBC charter is renewed every 10 years. It isn't due to be renewed again until 2027.

I do understand impartiality.

I also understand about ministerial codes, about standards in public office and about objective reality. We are properly through the looking glass now. The government are endangering the health of the nation at a time of national crisis to protect one man who is telling lies. They are rewriting history before our eyes. It is outrageous.

"The BBC can't and should not accuse the government of lying." I think they can state they're lying if it is true they are lying. Which it is.

Yanbu

YANBU! What she said was borne out by public polling (unlike BJs claims)!! Fucking disgrace she's off the air.

Well, just seen on Twitter that her replacement, Katie Razzall, has said she wouldn't have accepted the post tonight if Emily had been suspended and she was never going to present tonight anyway. But...last night she said she'd be back tomorrow (today) and she's listed in the schedule as on today. So maybe she has refused to present due to her reprimand or them wanting her to apologise?

Venus - still ranty - why?

@SuckingDieselFella

and David Cameron hasn't been PM for 4 years. I am talking about the past.

Maitlis has clearly had a haircut at some point since lockdown started so she's broken the rules on social distancing

Ive had a haircut since lockdown started...I haven’t broken lockdown

Emily Maitlis is off the program for telling the truth while Dominic Cummings and the entire cabinet have lied to the country.
Someone needs to speak truth to power. The BBC being impartial shouldn’t mean the don’t criticise the government. The gov and DC have had plenty of airtime to make their argument. The BBC should absolutely reinstate her.

As PP have said, it's not John Craven's Newsround. Newsnight is a news magazine and discussion programme, and Emily Maitlis is a journalist, not a newsreader. The BBC shouldn't be made to apologise every time a programme includes something the government doesn't like. No 10 had plenty of opportunity to provide a govt spokesperson but have chosen to boycott the programme.

It was hardly a rant FFS. She was reflecting on how the majority of the general public feels regarding DCs jaunt - and many Tory MPs. No doubt there will be pressure on her to give some sort of publuc apology - meanwhile DC still hasn't apologised the arrogant arse.
It's a joke.

It’s a total shitshow. How much longer can Johnson continue?! He seems hopeless and that is with Cummings by his side!

@BlueRaincoat1
"I do understand impartiality.

I also understand about ministerial codes, about standards in public office and about objective reality."

Do you understand that these are four different things?

The first is an interpretative standard that BBC reporters are held to. The second is governed by a set of rules. The third is irrelevant because Cummings doesn't hold public office. The fourth is a philosophical concept.

Suckingdiesel you must be aware of the threats the Tories have been making to the BBC over the last few years?