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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8360695/Emily-Maitlis-states-fact-Dominic-Cummings-broke-rules.html
Worth watching her speech/diatribe. Classic BBC bias. They hate Cummings with a passion and are willing to break their own impartiality rules to say so.
Worth watching her speech/diatribe. Classic BBC bias. They hate Cummings with a passion and are willing to break their own impartiality rules to say so.
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well done emily
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Emily is a class act.
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if it winds up the right wingers, it must have been an excellent piece.
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If she was lying sue her.
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Emily A right c u next tuesday! and nicely sums up why I stopped paying the BBC 2 years ago...The Guardian channel
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slap on the wrist for Emily
 comes to something when even the BBC admits it was a ridiculous way over the top performance |
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The broadcaster has since admitted an introduction by Maitlis on the Mr Cummings affair did not meet its required standards of impartiality.
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Thumbs up Emily!
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good for them
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emily is a legend, called the liars out big time
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Give em enough rope, just another nail in the coffin, subscription a step nearer.
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all we need now is Fatboy to get a slap
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back to Emily; i thought she looked a lot more leathery last night
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Have the haters stopped the bear baiting? Not many Cummings threads today.
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but laura tweeting at weekend that cummings was innocent was in the guidelines
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may be Emily been over the age of 5 wasn't prepared to argue that black wasn't black,and the yellow thing quacking in the corner wasn't a duck
remember a grouse meeting at work years ago, about 500 in the room and gaffer was trying to tell lads good Friday wasn't a bank holiday in terms of pay,it was silent and a lad walked from back of room to door and gaffer said where the fook do you think your going,the lad said good Friday,s been double time since jesus was on the cross,if want to stand here and debate it ,jog on , I fooking don't,  |
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Maitlis lecturing others on morals and honesty
Top BBC stars accused of encouraging tax avoidance in new pay row By John Glenday-08 November 2012 The system had requires top talent to set up ‘personal service companies’ in order to receive their pay as companies rather than individuals but one beneficiary of the deal, Paxman, claimed he had been forced into doing it. Several of the BBC’s most well-known broadcasters also reputedly dodged paying tax as a result of the deal, including Fiona Bruce, Emily Maitlis and Gavin Esler. MPs accused the public service broadcaster of ‘complicity’ in tax avoidance, describing the arrangements as ‘staggeringly inappropriate’. The furore has forced the BBC to change its tax arrangements, moving 131 freelancers onto staff contracts at the end of their current deals. |
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people more worried about maitlis outing cummings,than the att general sue braverman calling him innocent during a police investigation,
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MPs accused the public service broadcaster of ‘complicity’ in tax avoidance, describing the arrangements as ‘staggeringly inappropriate
Correct me if I am wrong but but don’t MP’s make the laws that allows not just BBC but other people legally to avoid paying their fair share? Why don’t they stop whining, do their jobs properly and close these avoidance schemes that are not available to ordinary people? |
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Emily Maitlis replaced for Newsnight episode after Cummings' remarks
Emily Maitlis has been replaced as host of Wednesday night’s episode of Newsnight after BBC bosses reprimanded her over a monologue in which she attacked the government’s handling of Dominic Cummings’ lockdown trip to Durham. News bosses at the corporation said the BBC2 programme’s lead presenter breached impartiality rules with her opening remarks on Tuesday night. She will be replaced on Wednesday by the Newsnight reporter Katie Razzall. In the monologue Maitlis told viewers: “Dominic Cummings broke the rules – the country can see that and it’s shocked the government cannot. “The longer ministers and the prime minister insist he worked within them, the more likely the angry response to the scandal is likely to be … He made those who struggled to keep to the rules feel like fools, and has allowed many more to assume they can flout them.” Talking of Johnson’s “blind loyalty” in the face of plummeting poll ratings, she expressed bafflement: “The prime minister knows all this and has chosen to ignore it.’ Clips of the sequence went viral on social media, attracting millions of views – many more than tune in to Newsnight on a typical evening. However, it caused fury among both Conservative politicians who have largely parked their longstanding criticism of the BBC during the pandemic, and also some journalists in and outside the public broadcaster who felt it went against the corporation’s approach to journalism. BBC news bosses agreed with the criticism of its own show, swiftly issuing a statement distancing themselves from the monologue. BBC sources said Newsnight’s editor, Esme Wren, worked on Tuesday night’s episode. “The BBC must uphold the highest standards of due impartiality in its news output,” the corporation said in a statement. “We’ve reviewed the entirety of last night’s Newsnight, including the opening section, and while we believe the programme contained fair, reasonable and rigorous journalism, we feel that we should have done more to make clear the introduction was a summary of the questions we would examine, with all the accompanying evidence, in the rest of the programme. “As it was, we believe the introduction we broadcast did not meet our standards of due impartiality. Our staff have been reminded of the guidelines.” Maitlis’s profile, already high, has skyrocketed since she was made lead presenter of the nightly current affairs show last year, shortly after publishing her book Airhead on life as a television presenter. She received global acclaim after confronting Prince Andrew about his connections with the deceased paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, becoming possibly the only journalist who can claim to have conducted an interview with a member of the royal family that turned out to be career-ending for the royal However, her increasing willingness to deliver opinionated monologues – including one in April dismissing the idea that coronavirus is a “great leveller” given its disproportionate impact on poorer people – has raised concerns among some on the show that the approach is not suited to a BBC political programme. There are suggestions of wider editorial tensions within the programme on the approach, even as it attracts enormous online interest. The BBC has increasingly struggled to hold the line on issues of impartiality in its news coverage, having tied itself in knots over comments about Donald Trump by BBC Breakfast’s presenter Naga Munchetty. It also struggled to deal with the enormous levels of criticism from both Labour and the Conservatives during the 2019 general election. |
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BBC won’t exist in its present form in the next 10 yrs.most people are sick to death of its political bias,& hardly any under 25s are interested in paying the licence fee.
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Bias to which party as both accused it of bias in the last election?
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BBC has been accused of bias in every poll, referendum, public emergency like we have now in last 10-20 years since rise of social media, depends which side of the fence you are on for which subject really. Scottish Independence biased towards NO, Brexit biased towards Remain etc etc nothing new here imo.
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Labour complaints 2
Tory omplaints 343 |
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maitlais speaks for 99% of country,replaced
laura reflects 20% of country, cleared on cummings iisue and still the right say bbc are biased |
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Present day politicians and their supporters want no criticism ot accountability whatsoever and simply wish to control the BBC. This government refuses to submit their ministers to scrutiny on this programme and day after day we hear the excuse that nobody was available. A pathetic state of affairs when professional politicians run scared of interviews.
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i think 1st TPs numbers are even worserer than mine
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doris ;cummings probably on phone begging bbc to let her do tonights show,last thing they want is this to continue majority of even brexiteers think she,s right on this one,as does any 5 yr old,probably more power to the people on this one
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Complete lack of balls from the BBC
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BARROWBOY • May 27, 2020 7:18 PM BST
BBC won’t exist in its present form in the next 10 yrs.most people are sick to death of its political bias,& hardly any under 25s are interested in paying the licence fee yes the way they buckled to the tories again, despite everyone with a brain laughing at cummings and his lies, sickens almost everyone. |
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Maitlis was editorialising against trade unions last week and Laura K has been running a constant pr campaign for the government and seemingly both of those were ok
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is the att general sue braverman who,s 3 times told the world cummings is innocent during a police investigation standing aside
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is it legal for someone without your permission to past your data on to a 3rd party, especially when that 3rd part has already proving she cant be trusted with personal data
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the right wing,right wing pundits been banging on for weeks about nosey neighbours shopping covidiots,now its government policy
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Has to be said it is really ironic, it was a grandstanding speech about Cummings's breaking the rules, but the actual speech itself was breaking rules! you're not allowed to give opinions at the BBC so unfortunately for her it's a clear cut case of breaking impartiality guidelines and they had no choice but to stand her down. What I don't understand is why her editors or sub-editors allowed this to go out. I have always thought Matlis could be a bit too aggressive sometimes, I remember she really attacked Rees-Mogg during one Brexit interview, think it was during the staged coup of May, I always wondered if this was something to do with her being Stalked for years.
Cummings should have definitely resigned imo but it's obvious by now he wont resign and Boris wont sack him because he knows if he bolts under this pressure it make him look week, likeness is this time next week it'd be largely forgotten. As for the BBC being Anti Tory, I don't think they are, they have always seemed to me to irritate the left and right in equal measure. |
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she could always leave
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She probably should if her employer has no interest in defending her against fake outrage, plenty of places she can go
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That's got to hurt
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MORE OF IT, put it out their take the flak ,she,ll get plenty of offer,s same as Andrew neil he started it,
what I don't get was lewis goodall was even more withering in his report but like I say they both probably took their lead from the att general wonder if razzel can come out just as strong but within the guidelines is it within bbc guidelines tory ministers to advocate going driving for eye tests, usa had to tell people not to drink dettol |