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I can't concentrate on ANYTHING Robert Peston says.

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MinkyBorage · 16/09/2008 22:19

I find the way he speaks far too distracting. It's not that I don't like him, I just don't know what he's saying, ever. Stephanie was so much easier.
Anyone else?

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harpsichordcarrier · 18/09/2008 18:44

OK quick round of shag, shove or marry:
Robert Peston
Evan Davis
Justin Webb
?

Swedes · 18/09/2008 19:14

Shouldn't it be shag, shove or civil partnership?

Swedes · 18/09/2008 19:22

OmaLittle/Upwind. Yes at Paxo with Diane Choyleva. He was ridiculous wasn't he? (I think he wanted to shag her right at that moment and got rather flustered). He looked especially silly when the former Blair econimic advisor (sorry forgotten his name) agreed with Diane Choyleva - Paxo didn't laugh at him did he?

I think Paxo has had his day. I can't stand his outraged with a silly face routine. I feel relieved this days when it's Kirsty doing Newsnight. Is it just me or does she sometimes sound totally pissed?

fiplus4 · 18/09/2008 19:48

What bothers me is that Mr Peston regards himself as very, very clever for having got the HBOS story when it was so obviously fed to him by someone who'd gone short and wanted the maximum coverage to make the most money out of his position in the stock. I think the old-fashioned phrase was that he's been taken for a patsy.

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MinkyBorage · 18/09/2008 20:10

I heard someone on r4 imply that today too figplus

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bossykate · 19/09/2008 06:51

i thought it had been fed to him by someone at hbos or govt to prevent the run which was already starting...

Swedes · 19/09/2008 08:59

Bossykate - I also suspect it was leaked from by the government in order to buy time for the parties to reach agreement.

andiem · 19/09/2008 11:34

peston is just too smug and too happy about it all that is the problem I have with him
it is as if he is sooooooo excited to get the stories that he doesn'yt hink that for some of the poeple watching it is their jobs that are being lost
yes he may well be clever and informed but his job is to communicate in simple terms what is happening to the great unwashed not a job he does very well imho
peston shove
evan civil partnership

MamaHobgoblin · 19/09/2008 14:04

Love Evan. Would Civil him any day...um...well, anyway. Miss him on telly - being on the Today prog is no substitute for seeing him being all adorable and wry on telly.

I have had a Thing about Peston's inexplicable and random stresses for ages but DH can never see what I'm on about. Hmph.

LadyMetroland · 19/09/2008 17:19

Peston is great. I won't hear a word said against him.

Paxo on the other hand has well and truly had his day. He clearly hasn't the foggiest idea about finance and wants to just dismiss all this as greedy bankers getting what's due to them. I saw a news piece with him last year where he went to a trading floor and this very nice head trader tried to explain to him what they do all day and how the global economy works, and Paxo was just completely foxed -- then made himself look idiotic by getting CROSS with the trader for not explaining it well enough. errr - read a finance book mate!

Catfeena · 24/09/2008 13:14

Come on ladies, Evan is not interested in OUR wares. And I can't watch him without thinking about the (alleged) Prince Albert.
And RP DOES seek feedback, all the time.

sophy · 24/09/2008 19:40

Robert Peston did not replace Evan Davis. Peston has been the business editor for some time, Davis was the economics editor.

Peston is a very good journalist who has had some amazing scoops for the BBC - Northern Rock and the HBOS/Lloyds deal for example.

But he is a completely useless broadcaster with possibly the most annoying voice on TV at the moment. He should have stuck to newspapers.

I know lots of people at the BBC who think so too.

bagsforlife · 24/09/2008 19:57

Are you sophy who reads the news? Agree with you.

sophy · 24/09/2008 19:58

'Fraid not ... although I used to in another life pre-dc

poppy34 · 24/09/2008 21:19

sophy you hit the nail on head - his blog /written bits are fantastic

Soprana · 27/09/2008 00:52

Actually today I was listening to him and thought he sounded 'cured'... No irriTATing emphases ON words you DON'T expect.
Anyone else?

sophy · 29/09/2008 08:06

I think, Soprana, that he is much improved in a pre-recorded package -- has obviously been coached carefully in his delivery.

But when he is live he reverts back to the unnatural cadence and jerky style.

And so self-important too. Last night's news at 10 really took the biscuit... "I can reveal..."

Twat.

Soprana · 29/09/2008 13:24

He speaks very highly of you, Sophy!
Yeah, you're right - he was as bad as ever last night and this morning - and that's the other thing - he's on Radio 4 ALL THE TIME!!! Does this man never sleep???? Sheesh.

sophy · 29/09/2008 18:46

I am being over-critical because I used to work in the same industry.

And really missing it at the moment because it is so exciting. So a bit jealous.

Sorry Robertm I'm sure you a very nice person in RL.

bumbling · 29/09/2008 20:29

So sad that we get annoyed - TV concentrates on pretty people with good delivery. Peston is a fabulous hack, has great contacts and knowledge and is good at explaining what mmaters. Yes we miss stephanie as economics editor to supplement him but she's off HAVING A BABY. Don't we just want the beeb, radio and telly to have the best people possible giving us the news as quick as they can, getting the scoops for the widest possible audience (public interest etc blah) and being bright enough to interpret it without having people behind the scenes do it for them. Otherwise we got autocuties male and female, ad nauseum. The frightening thing is how many people on the best news/currrent affairs programmes in the country who clearly don't understand a thing about business, financial markets and economics and given it's been going on for a year and the poor quality of so many interviews, they can't be arsed to understand and hence give far from insightful interviews. In the meantime the rest of us are going up the swanny and none of the people who are guilty are being held to account. Scarily it will hit the rest of us very soon and most interviewers on tv and radio aren't up to the job of giving them all hell.

If we only care about superficial delivery rather than substance then we buy in to the total bollocks that is broadcast in the modern world. And I say that as a person working in telly who's massivley disollusioned and who can't spell check.

mehgalegs · 29/09/2008 20:32
Swedes · 29/09/2008 20:38

I think he's truly marvellous. His blog very succinctly explains all the relevant issues; something the papers and R4 almost spectacularly fail to do at the moment. (Although R5 Live does a pretty decent job.)

artichokes · 29/09/2008 20:39

I love RP. I know his dad (a fabulous economics professor). The Peston men are very brainy and very nice men.

fallingstandards · 29/09/2008 22:36

Ladies I got here by googling an expletive followed by Mr Peston's name because I am so deeply wound up by this gent! He gives every appearance of feasting greedily on the gloom and the worse the news the more he luxuriates in it. I have now realised who he reminds me of - it is Rimmer from Red Dwarf! - the slightly camp body language and the occasionally vaguely effeminate tone of voice. Sorry it is no good saying we should concentrate on the message not the delivery - if they want the message delivered I can only suggest they find someone less oh god I can't stop myself HORRIBLY INFURIATINGLY ANNOYING to deliver it! I can't bear to listen to him any more!

dinny · 29/09/2008 22:37

I love RP - he is just posh!

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