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?

@RufustheLanglovingreindeer

I'm guessing her but could the photo of Peter Mandelson possibly tell us she has friends high up in the Labour party?

Its interesting to watch Conservative-haters pile in to support her. They must be unaware her husband is a merchant banker.

Thanks @SusieOwl4 for a sensible post in all this rabble rousing

I don't have a clue what L Kuenssberg you lot are watching, but it isn't the same as mine!
Ditto!

I think he was wrong to do it but don't care that much and think the media is drumming up hysteria

Just what I was saying in my post, and cross posted with this - that's the opinion of a big chunk (if not majority) of the 'public' which Emily failed to mention if we are talking about 'facts'.
What do people expect of Boris - throw him under the bus after he won them the election?

I'm guessing her but could the photo of Peter Mandelson possibly tell us she has friends high up in the Labour party?

Oh is THAT who he is....ahhhhh i getcha

Thankyou

By the way I bet Kirsty Wark would have done a much more rounded approach - she's a very wise presenter.

Hopefully another nail in the coffin of the BBC.

I thought their remain stance was bad enough, but Emily’s impartiality was on a completely different level!

@Safalina

Funny how BBC are labelled as leftists. They are very much pro Tory to ensure their funding plus Cameron started the process of placing their people in top position within the organization. Control the narrative control the masses.

Yes, that's right.

Emily is pulling a very clever double bluff here by pretending to be anti-Boris when she is in fact A CONSERVATIVE.

The masses would never see through that one.

I agree susieowl.

@Zeusthemoose

It makes me so cross because I have friends in Italy who went through a true lockdown and there has been so much financial assistance here and yet people are up in arms just because they did not read the guidance . If I was Boris I would be saying , sod the lot of you no more furlough payments .

I have lost 4 members of my family to this virus but I am not blaming the government because I know the circumstances of what happened and to say the BBC and other reporters have not been biased is ignorant . It’s so obvious they have .

And that is NOT their job .

Complaint in to the BBC and petition signed and shared.

Fuck this shit.

Well said SusieOwl

👏👏👏👏

If I was Boris I would be saying , sod the lot of you no more furlough payments

You’d trash the economy Further and make hundreds of thousands redundant?

I'm not angry, I'm not a fool - just because shit stirrers on Twitter bleat does not make something true.

And if you were typical of the responses to Cummings's action/government official line then it would be a non-story but that's not the case is it? Arguably the story is even more newsworthy because the negative response to the government line on Cummings's actions has crossed the political divide, with criticism coming as much from inside the Conservative Party as anywhere else, possibly more so as many other parties are on the sidelines watching things play out!

Tory MPs revolt as voters turn on Dominic Cummings
More than 35 Conservative MPs call for Boris Johnson's chief adviser to resign amid growing fury among constituents

www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/05/26/tory-revolt-grows-mps-break-ranks-calling-dominic-cummings-resign/

And as for Twitter again rather more than a few people, but seems Cummings surname set off Twitter porn filters which disrupted how posts were collected together!

Oh and I’m so sorry for your losses susie

Its a bitch of a virus 💐

Susie

This is a witch hunt and is all to do with a pitchfork mentality against a human being with an autistic son and the bias was also proven by the other bbc reporter caught insulting Cummings when they thought they were off Mike

Who was on Mike? Mike whom? Michael Gove? Is there a Mike Cummings involved?

Think you mean mic.

Also, where is the statement that Cummings' son is autistic? Until that is released this is either unfounded speculation or someone, you, discussing private medical information of a child with his parents permission. If their son is autistic, his parents deliberately chose not to release that into the public domain.

You don't have a moral high ground here.

BertiesLanding not a tiny minoroty at all, the media who s anti-Johnson is portraying it that way. The public may joke about it on SM but I bet the majority either doesn't care or do not think it follows that he should resign, being a key figure.

The BBC should be able to discuss topics and not just report them. This isn’t the 1940s any longer. No it’s not up to other organisations to discuss. It’s up to the bbc. The government never ever send ministers to Newsnight so what do they expect? Discussion where they don’t take part. It’s inevitable. I want a punchy programme with differing views and setting the scene is fine. Guests can strongly disagree.

Is Cummings behind this??? The unelected supremo!

Does this mean for example that if they are reporting an ISIS terror attack on Westminster bridge, they should describe it as an act of grievance by a group of people opposed to western beliefs but who have their own justified belief system ?

She’s was presenting. That should be neutral.
Journalists should report facts and come up with conclusions. . However they would all be wrong to say “ group of people”. All the in depth journalism fails to report its yet another man on the rampage. Its always a male shooting, running over or stabbing. someone. It’s not a religion or country at fault. Islamic females and American gun women aren’t taking out random strangers are they.
Reporting should be facts leading to impartial conclusions, not part of whichever political vacuum current thinking is in.

There is no money tree we will all be paying for this and what I meant is that this mentality of chasing this person when another mp travelled even further to be in another house when he KNEW he had covid symptoms. And no one even mentions that stinks of hypocrisy.

I am just not sure how people can accept the help on one hand and then turn the next .

One reporter even asked Cummings basically if he regretted the fact he had another house to go to when others don’t .

Really ? Sounded like a spoilt jealous child and not a well paid journalist.

Emily is pulling a very clever double bluff here by pretending to be anti-Boris

crossed my mind too - it was too blunt and clumsy to think she is genuinely biased, but no proof of course. I've noticed thesame thing a few days ago - but it's unusual for Maitliss so I did feel a bit suspicoius.

She’s was presenting. That should be neutral.

On Newsnight she's a journalist on a news magazine programme, not presenting a basic news report, I don't think you entirely get the differing genre conventions. I hope you never come across HARDtalk that would really freak you out!

Susie

I can only assume you are referring to the member for Skye, Ian Blackford. He didn't have coronavirus symptoms. He got to Skye and self-isolated anyway, just in case he was asymptomatically infectious.

Are you bringing him up to think Mr Cummings look worse? He might not thank you.

@BubblesBuddy

Differing views is the clue in your post .

There have been no differing views

Even one of the “ presenters” on a morning tv show gave her opinion on how odd it was that he said his eyes seemed affected . The next article was a consultant dealing with covid who said it can affect EVERY organ and part of the body . Did the presenter apologise for her implied statement that he had lied ? No totally ignored the expert because obviously that does not make good television.

Because the BBC, unlike the government, still has standards and morals.