Crick Replaces Martha
Left-wing broadcaster Michael Crick is taking over as political editor on Newsnight. Which means the nation's prime current affairs show will be short a campaigning investigative reporter. Hmmm...
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40 comments:
Lord Archer's next book title?-"A crick in the neck"
Did the job exist prior to Crick or was it created just to ease him in?
Just in time for the local elections, and in plenty of time for a general election...Crick will be in place to give everyone a hard time but Labour.
You've got top admire the audacity of the BBC at times.
Guido thinks: "tempting, but can I take the pay cut?"
I would love to take on the vacant role. But I would have trouble dressing up Labour woes as positives and probably fail the vetting process due to never having been a member of the SWP or a Guardian subscriber.
How ridiculous! I'd switch off my TV if the dumpy little fellow didn't look and act so silly! I think Newsnight needs some form of disclaimer - "news for lefties" - or we should all stop paying our licence fees and instead donate the money to orangutans or something!
When the government and its silent partners and placemen feel completely secure--you know you're going to be treated with contempt.
So where, and why, is Martha going?
The BBC, astonishingly, finds new ways to annoy me almost daily.
does anyone know of a legal way of ceasing to subsidise this canting bunch of hypocrites?
Martha said she was off to Radio 4... She didn't say what 4...
In the sixties we had 'Late night line up' on BBC2 which was more accurately known as 'Left Wing line up' So no change there in the Beeb.
Anyone listen to Today this morning? Humphries was at his most impartial, giving Osborne a kicking, followed an hour later by a fireside chat with Comrade Brown, in which Brown was allowed to talk at length on how being a father had changed him. This is getting embarrassing.
get a grip guido
Newsnight has a grotesque number of journalists so it can easily cope.
M K was completely USLESS as anyone who saw her report on what a bloke told me in a pub style of reporting re cash for peerages will know
Radio4 will have to buy some new furniture to support the weight of her enormous arse - from which she talks
Casual Observer said...
"Martha said she was off to Radio 4... She didn't say what 4..."
Main presenter World @ one - replacing Nick Clarke
Anthoninus - "we should all stop paying our licence fees and instead donate the money to orangutans or something!"
How do we know we are contributing to fair and balanced orangutans? They might be raving Lefties! Or all vote Plaid Cymru.....
anon 9:43
no, but in practical terms this works : send a few outraged letters to the dg . When they send you a license demand, send it back to crapita reffering them to your letters and explaining that you and your friends in the local party are making re-selection of your MP, conditional on his commitment to ending public funding of the bbc.
They seem to loose interest in further correspondence at that point.
But there are much more important issues ... eg
AND OUR THANKS FOR THIS STORY GO TO IAIN DALE, WHO POSTED IT SEVEN HOURS EARLIER THAN GUIDO
Matters not - hardly anybody outside the westminster bubble watches newsnight anyway
Anonymous said...
AND OUR THANKS FOR THIS STORY GO TO IAIN DALE, WHO POSTED IT SEVEN HOURS EARLIER THAN GUIDO
10:21 AM
And it was on Newsnight last night in the Evening Standard yesterday and her leaving was annonced by the BBC on 22/02 - So what.
Perhaps you should simply stay with Mr Dales Diary!
I though Humphreys was unusuallly fair this morning on both Osborne and Brown. My only complaint would be that he didn't ask if his failure to increase taxes on spitits - unlike beer and wine - might have anything to do with Scotch whisky and the imminent elections in Scotland. In the last 11 budgets I don't think he's ever increased taxes on Scotch.
Also, are all these interviewers who parrot the myth that this is a budget to benefit the middle classes under the impression that the middle classes don't drink wine or beer or drive 4 x 4s?
What annoyed me further was a BBC reporter interviewing some older men (pensioners)? and stating that Inheritance Tax threshold was being raised to £350000.One of them particularly raved about that.The reporter didn't mention or inform the men that the rise is incremental and £350000 won't be arrived at for 5 YEARS.The good impression is given and Labour get an unfair boost.
Crick is forever giving Labour a hard time ... unlike Comrade Nick Robinson who will roll over and let Gordon tickle his tummy. I'm not looking at Dale's Diary at the moment, and certainly not linking, so thanks very much to Guido for this LATE NEWS flash. Did watch Newsnight ... and have been filling in a job application ever since.
re: "his failure to increase taxes on spitits (spirits?) - unlike beer and wine - might have anything to do with Scotch whisky and the imminent elections in Scotland"
I thought this was all part of a EU harmonisation of tax rates on drinks. Yet more of the EU sausage machine grinding us all into 'Euro-piffle'?
whether the beeb be good bad or indifferent, it's the best we got. Those tossers on the commercials are a bloody waste time & money. At least they have got "Grade" back where he can do least harm. Bring back "Gilligan" & "Dyke". Whatever happened to the English sense of fair play.
Doesn't matter what musical-chairs is going on at Al Beeb. The output will be the same. A load of "Tories Bad" "Labour good" propaganda. The same bunch of lefty-twats talking the same bollocks and trying to exert political influence and undermine democracy.
Crick isn't a bad journalist. Left of centre of course but still much better than the useless MK. I just wonder if his take-the-piss style isn't better suited to what he was already doing. He's wound a few people up in his time - will this play against him?
Anon 10:21
'Morning Iain, hope all's well.
Is it me or is Guido becoming mainstream? It may be the publicity explosion he is about to endure tomorrow.
Oh Crickey..so he was an imvestigative reporter (yawn yawn)...never knew that...I thought he was a poor piss merchant
I save 130 quid a year by ignoring the TVLA gestapo.
You could too, AND you have the added bonus of not funding Lord Haw Haw v2
BBC - £3.3 billion budget annually, as a Government propoganda machine and sop to the masses.
Maybe the 1 in 5 pensioners on the poverty line would appreciate that level of investment.
Or the 1 in 5 kids leaving primary school illiterate. The licence fee is indefensible in an era of multi-channel, digital multi-media. It fulfills no useful public service remit.
Hmm..., Guido Fawkes, BBC Newsnight, does have a certain ring to it...
I would like a go....
Michael Crick is about as investigative as a dead kipper.
I first broke this story - better late than never, Mr. Fawkes!!!
Why be so rude to dead kippers?
Well at least the Beeb will be well placed to give proper support to Gordo and ensure the licence fee is increased in line with needs. Afterall leftie journo's gotta live.
Be interesting to see the level of bias!!
I note the concern about the loss of a campaigning reporter from Newsnight's team.
I wonder if many of your fellow Tories Guido, had a similar sense of Mr Crick's value when he was haranguing the likes of Jeffrey Archer and Neil Hamilton in the late 90's. I'm sure that he will be hugely gratified by your new-found support for his work.
I think some of the comments posters complaining that other sites reported the Crick news first are in danger of missing the bigger story - something that Guido could never be accused of! :)
Marfa's tats are flippin' uge & invitin
Why does she always wear that cossack inspired design red jacket the slut?
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