Today Radio 4 : Guido on Drudge
Guido will shortly be paying homage to Matt Drudge on the tail end of the Today programme this morning. They will probably wheel out some old Guardian hack to tell you how it was better in the old days, before the internet. Wonder who...?
UPDATE : It was David Hencke, the Guardian's sleaze investigatior, so not a confrontation, more a consensus. Be warned Tango-man fans, we swapped titbits in the green room...
UPDATE II : You can catch-up on BBC listen again. Scroll down to 08.30 - 9.00, fast forward 22 minsutes, it is some 7 minutes from the end.
UPDATE : It was David Hencke, the Guardian's sleaze investigatior, so not a confrontation, more a consensus. Be warned Tango-man fans, we swapped titbits in the green room...
UPDATE II : You can catch-up on BBC listen again. Scroll down to 08.30 - 9.00, fast forward 22 minsutes, it is some 7 minutes from the end.
40 comments:
Well, was the Monica Lewinsky scandal really good for the world? It only distracted the Clinton administration from fighting Al Qaeda.
Best of luck but take care they may try and stitch you up again??
Interesting article by Matthew Parris in the Times this morning regarding a rude word omitted from Hansard.
text to click on
bollocks, just got into the office
Jesus Christ... Why couldn't you have mentioned this earlier?!
I literally caught your last sound bite...
Very good, though your rich Irish brogue appears to have got lost in the ether somewhere between Broadcasting House and Tuscany.
Good interview, particularly the point that this website puts its money where its mouth is.
Funny, was thinking of posting on the last thread, ' and when can we expect to see an endorsement from a doyen of the msm, like 'Sir Michael' , gracing your byline !
Guido,
Some of your readers might want to know the modern etiquette by which public servants tell the public to go **** themselves. Perhaps this Commons Written Q&A from yesterday might serve as a guide:
Smith Institute:
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster when the Charity Commission will complete its investigation into the Smith Institute; and when it will publish the report. [178553]
Phil Hope: This is a matter for the Charity Commission as the independent regulator of charities in England and Wales. The Commission has told me that it cannot, at this stage, provide a precise timeline for the completion of its inquiry, but that it is currently expected to conclude in the next few months. The Commission will, as is its normal practice, publish a report of its findings after the inquiry is completed, setting out any wider lessons for the charity sector.
I heard it... the discussion was positive and Guido came across well. The interviewer was a little slow on the uptake and presumptive but both Guido and the investigative journalist guy from the Guardian (NOT Sir Michael!)managed to highlight the important positive points about blogging and dispelled a few MSM myths too. Odd that the interview should take place at the time an argument about Guido has broken out on Sir Michael of Brownnose's Guardian blog. Poor sod Woo Woo turned up hoping to progress Sir Mike's anti Guido but forgot to take his medication... :)
It was much better in the old days, before the Internet. People used to believe what I said. Ah, those were the days.
When was this - I've just 'listened again' to the last 30 mins and couldn't find it?
9.27 I see that the spirt of Sir Humphrey Appleby is still at large.
" The interviewer was a little slow "
Oh, you noticed? Sarah Montague is a patronising inattentive bubblehead. A dreadful replacement for Sue McGregor. I don't listen to Today any more: it's just a live Guardian podcast that uses BBC transmitters.
I don't know why Guido and his groupies get so much pleasure from nit picking at MPs. Don't you feel like a bit of a twat when there are these politicians trying to create policies to help millions of people on areas like crime, health and education - competing philosophies of how things should be done - and then there is you nagging on about their proxy little donations for failed campaigns, and pulling them up on their expenses. I don't know how you maintain your motivation for this rubbish.
Can we honesty say politics is better off with the Lewinsky scandal, that lords for peerages thing, and Peter bloody Hain's donation notifications? I really don't think it is. The system would certainly not be more corrupt just because we wouldn't know so much about these things. They are rather insignificant in the scale of politics. There are much more important issues.
y'know, I remember, back in '37, when I was a young whippersnapper of a journalist....no older than that young Guido I was in those days....
Dear me, I've quite forgotten what I was going to say.
If ever a BBC programme needed a detox, it's "Today".Nothing to do with Guido but at 8.10 we had a nominally balanced discussion on Labour's schools' admission policy.Up against the Minister pops......a certain Fiona Millar, mother of 4, journalist etc.It would have been informative if we had bee4n told that she was one of the most important cogs in the old Downing Street machine, personal adviser to Cherie Blair AND is Alistair Campbell's squeeze. So much for Beeboid balance and objectivity.
Sensational news from Neath: Dead man still walking.
More Sir Michael, more.
The real truth @ 10:11
"...there are these politicians trying to create policies to help millions of people on areas like crime, health and education -"
Bloody hell, RT, if that's the alternative, then on current performance it's better they spend more time diddling their secretaries & lining their pockets. Perhaps you're right and Guido should lay off of them. It might cause less harm in the long run.
More tits than bits re Tangoman of the Valleys?
Was Sarah Montague actually listening - slow is an understatement? It sounded as if David Hencke enjoyed your reference to Paul Myners, altnough I think you were speaking too quickly for the poor Sarah.
See, Guido! It's all your bloody fault for exposing these shits that the UK is in the shit, you subversive, you!!
You Irish achieved it in the end!!!
Peter Grimes
Guido, are you teasing us? what was that little snippet about the Guardian not running a story about Paul Myners? Surely there are lots of good-news stories to be written about this fine pillar of the Nomenklatura/Establishment...
Two interwebby stories on the Today show this morning. I caught the thoroughly condescending bit concerning Internet Radio whilst looking for Guido's performance. Yes, they're right. 'Man obliged to marry goat after making her pregnant' is definitely the lead story every time I tune in. So's 'London will be drowned under 50 metres of water due to global warming'....Oh hang on, that's Radio 4 isn't it.
But it did occur to me that one difference the Internet's made is that stories don't seem to vanish quite so readily these days. Many's the time I've caught a revealing news item at 6:30 that has disappeared without trace by the 8:00 news, never to be heard of again.
Guido, just because he can't spell F****R, doesn't mean you should take the piss out of Sir Michael *hite !!!
A copy of Hansard is for sale on EBay.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120211425197
Had thought it was just another Lab MP caught out on the take.
nice dropping of the paul myners name......bet that had the beeboids panicking!
The real truth @ 10:11:
Yes, there are more inmportant issues. NuLab are just as incompetent with those. Barclays, UBS - these have also been hit with credit-crunch losses. Is there a run on them? Do they get taxpayer's money? No because, unlike Northern Rock, they don't have all their eggs in one basket (the most basic maxim of investment).
25m names/addresses/ages/sex-of-offspring/bank-details... of course no money will disappear from your bank account - I can give you my bank details safely - I do it all the time. No, that data will be good for ever and any fraud using it will be insidious. No-one will ever be able to say the lost data was the cause of it, so NuLab can say nothing is proven... idiots!!!
So the Hain story and the blogosphere are *very* important but, analogous to the music industry, politicians and the MSM are like dinosaurs.
NuLab + Brown are dying slowly and (for us and them) painfully.
Do tell us what the Myners deal is all about Guido.
Been at the Manchester Guardian for a while, y'know. Old Scott appointed me himself to cover the Revolution. Had a bit more hair in those days. I was sweet on Trotsky's daughter Evgenia, strapping great lass, married some writer chappie in the end. Pity.
Eh? Oh, thank you, HF, good to know one's still appreciated.
I've used the internet for my news since stumbling across an item on the Sydney Herald web-site that totally contradicted the British media version of an event in Afghanistan.Further investigation proved that every other English-speaking site I tried around the world agreed with the Australian version,only the British and American sites had the "Coalition friendly" version.since then I've regularly trawled overseas sites and it's amazing what gets reported about events here,or regarding our foreign policy e.t.c. that our media dosn't cover for whatever reason.
So Lord Michael White thinks that Guido is a funster. That's nothing, Lord White thinks that HE is a serious journalist. Talk about delusions!!
Peter Grimes
Nice that you got the very valid point "I pay my own costs" not like the BBBC who uses taxpayers money .Montague was quick to `move on` following that remark. It would have been great if they had fielded "Numptie McNaughtie" for the interview. If any one Scot- other Broon- needs re-exporting it is this twit. He just cannot stop interrupting interviews with his obvious bias prattle JH
... there are these politicians trying to create policies to help millions of people on areas like crime, health and education ... and then there is you nagging on about their proxy little donations (The Real Truth)
I quite agree. Just leave us politicians to get on with the important business of wrecking Britain.
Don't know what the chaps were referring to, but this link may not be unconnected.
http://www.civilservicenetwork.com/news/article.html?tx_ttnews[tt_news]=26997&tx_ttnews[backPid]=20&cHash=c133b531f3
Reference Johnny at 8:52, on the subject of Clinton not concentrating on fighting Al Quaeda because of Monica.
He was concentrating alright-- On getting his hands on another C..T
I don't have a television for 2 reasons. 1) it fills your head with rubbish and 2)because I refuse to fund the propaganda arm of the new labour war party. I believe funding or collaborating with terrorist organisations is illegal, right?
real truth are you really jimbo, the degenerate apologist, if so it would be nice if you would fuck off elsewhere, but I suppose it's best you are here where we can keep an eye on you, instead of you being elsewhere, interfering with others.
nothing i write gets posted - is the Police state now official?
what gives? I had a similar problem, so I had to tone it down a bit.
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