As the Court of Appeal ruled that the Rwanda plan is unlawful, Kay Burley brought on an “expert human rights solicitor”, Jacqueline McKenzie to discuss the potential outcomes of the ruling. Jacqueline made it clear that she did not think that the government was doing enough to cater for the international migration crisis, and reaffirmed that nobody was “likely to be sent to Rwanda very soon”. Smiling as she said it…
What Sky News failed to mention was that she was not only a partner at Leigh Day, but was in fact a member of and adviser to the Labour Party’s Race Equalities Task Force. Alongside this, she has also led the fight against the Rwanda deportation flights, and represented some slightly questionable clients including a Jamaican national that served 8 years for kidnapping. Guido’s not questioning her legal expertise, it would have been more honest of Sky News with the viewers to have mentioned this slight conflict before they brought her on…
Of course McKenzie is perfectly entitled to hold these views, and Sky News entitled to broadcast them. Broadcasters need to fully inform their viewers if their “experts” have an axe to grind…
UPDATE: Fuming Tories say of this “Utterly shameless bias from Sky News -no wonder their viewing figures are through the floor.”
The big money transfers from the BBC to podcasting are making people precious. Adam Fleming was clearly not happy that former colleagues Maitlis and Sopel were invited on the BBC Media Show to talk about their new podcast. Host Ros Atkins was not happy that Maitlis didn’t show up. Guest Bad Al Campbell was miffed that it wasn’t all about him…
Enjoyable bit of real life W1A @BBCRosAtkins on a hot mic telling his producer that he "just had a pissy message from @adamfleming..." Sadly now deleted. #ReleaseTheTape @BBCRadio4 pic.twitter.com/xqJNcSohq9
— Media Guido (@MediaGuido) September 3, 2022
The show appears to have lost a few minutes in the edit suite since it first went out. Fortunately, a Guido co-conspirator got the clip above from the first broadcast version…
Putin’s Kremlin-bots are launching an assault on UK media outlets’ comment sections in attempts to shift public opinion, according to a new report by the University of Cardiff. 32 prominent news websites across 16 countries – including the Mail Online, The Express and The Times – have been flooded with pro-Russian state propaganda in desperate attempts to manipulate public opinion. Not the most effective place to start…
While the university’s report was unable to say definitively who was behind the posts, it claimed the actions were “indicative of a Russian state operation”, and although they didn’t put a figure on the total number of comments, it found evidence of the alleged influence operation in 242 articles published between February and mid-April. Incredibly, many of the pro-Putin comments were then picked up by a Russian state-linked website to claim Western support of their dear leader…
Away from Liverpool, a screen malfunction meant Matt Hancock was forced to read an entire speech at the Radio Festival staring into the words “cock gobbler”. Apparently Radio 1 DJ Scott Mills had been playing “innuendo-bingo” on the podium before his speech which is why the message was left on the screen.
Matt Hancock: Cock Gobbler. Audio here: https://t.co/L3CHbzpai6
— Patrick Foster (@patrickfoster2) September 26, 2016
Posted without comment.
The Speccie’s Isabel Hardman was in Nice at the time of the attacks last night, her report can be read here:
Am in Nice. But safe and in flat with a family. No idea what is going on but lots of sirens and people running.
— Isabel Hardman (@IsabelHardman) July 14, 2016
The Mirror meanwhile reports that Labour MP John Woodcock, also in Nice, gave shelter to a Parisian family in his flat:
Tragedy in Nice is devastating. I happen to be in the city at the moment. On Promenade with celebrating crowd last night, now safe indoors.
— John Woodcock (@JWoodcockMP) July 15, 2016
Stay safe.
These are all front page headlines from the last seven days. They’re from Remain-backing papers as well as Leave. With three weeks to go immigration is the main story in town – whether it’s net migration rising to 330,000 or the 18 Albanians rescued off the Kent coast. A new Telegraph/ORB poll this morning shows that in the past week Remain’s lead has been cut from 13 points to just five. Immigration was always going to be Vote Leave’s trump card – 23 days to go…
