Kay Burley

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Chrisw666

22,655 posts

199 months

Friday 5th October 2012
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I've always had a low opinion of journalists, she's just lowered them.

What a fking heartless bint she is.

MonkeyHanger

9,198 posts

242 months

Friday 5th October 2012
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Ofcom are getting conpaints. I suspect there will be quite a few....

Apache

39,731 posts

284 months

Friday 5th October 2012
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TheHeretic said:
Stop watching Sky, people. It isn't news to them, it is entertainment. Kay is doing precisely what she has been told to say. There is no journalistic integrity, there is no moral viewpoint, there is just the attracting of mawkish viewers to boost ratings and advertising revenue. Avoid.
That suggests there is a news agency that does have integrity

speedchick

5,173 posts

222 months

Friday 5th October 2012
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Sky should just sack her, live on air of course.

Apache

39,731 posts

284 months

TheHeretic

73,668 posts

255 months

Friday 5th October 2012
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Apache said:
That suggests there is a news agency that does have integrity
Well, hard to find, that is for sure. Still, sat there watching Sky news, then complaining about how awful they are. Well, stop watching it. Al Jazeera English seems to be the only decent news broadcaster.

rohrl

8,725 posts

145 months

Friday 5th October 2012
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What a foul creature. She deliberately set out to get that shot of the volunteers breaking down.

She deserves to be locked in a basement forever along with Jeremy Kyle, Piers Morgan and Rebekah Brooks .

Pork

9,453 posts

234 months

Friday 5th October 2012
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wobert said:
I'm aghast that any decent human could break news like that and then ask for "comment".

How the godmother didn't floor her is just beyond me.
I suspect she did if for effect/ratings, not thinking "ah, the godmother needs to know this...."

Very tasteless. In a reversal of the interview she did with the radio presenter on Frank Lampard above, they should ask her if she's like to hear news like that live on TV and if she thinks its right. Plank.

Rollcage

11,327 posts

192 months

Friday 5th October 2012
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TheHeretic said:
Well, hard to find, that is for sure. Still, sat there watching Sky news, then complaining about how awful they are. Well, stop watching it. Al Jazeera English seems to be the only decent news broadcaster.
Russia Today can be quite watchable.

smegmore

3,091 posts

176 months

Friday 5th October 2012
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rohrl

8,725 posts

145 months

Friday 5th October 2012
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I don't watch Murdochvision news anyway so my complaining to Ofcom would be hypocritical but I would like to see Burley handed her P45 live on air then being escorted from the premises by security while a mobile news crew stick a mike in her face asking her how she feels.

Shaw Tarse

31,543 posts

203 months

Friday 5th October 2012
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smegmore said:
I'd tried earlier ( first time I've complained to ofcom) but it keeps crashing on iPad

TheHeretic

73,668 posts

255 months

Friday 5th October 2012
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Rollcage said:
Russia Today can be quite watchable.
yes

onyx39

11,120 posts

150 months

Friday 5th October 2012
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Shaw Tarse said:
smegmore said:
I'd tried earlier ( first time I've complained to ofcom) but it keeps crashing on iPad
Same here

Rollcage

11,327 posts

192 months

Friday 5th October 2012
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Actually, I may have to retract my position slightly.

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/alex-hern/2012/1...

Watching the full clip, it seems the volunteer asked a direct question, and was told. The Godmother already knew.

Doesn't make her subsequent questioning any less crass though, but it's not as bad as I first thought.

Mermaid

21,492 posts

171 months

Friday 5th October 2012
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rohrl said:
What a foul creature. She deliberately set out to get that shot of the volunteers breaking down.

She deserves to be locked in a basement forever along with Jeremy Kyle, Piers Morgan and Rebekah Brooks .
That's reasonable.

As another poster said, she should have been told where to get off.

speedchick

5,173 posts

222 months

Friday 5th October 2012
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Even the Mail is getting in on the act
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2213299/In...

Traveller

4,162 posts

217 months

Friday 5th October 2012
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TheHeretic said:
Rollcage said:
Russia Today can be quite watchable.
yes
It is funny watching RT and then flicking to BBC and CNN etc. You see the same story, but with a different propaganda angle on each.

The whole Julian Assange embassy affair made great viewing, depending on the channel, he went from freedom of speech saintly warrior to deadly traitorous criminal and sexual predator at the flip of a channel.


Edited by Traveller on Friday 5th October 21:08

Mr_B

10,480 posts

243 months

Friday 5th October 2012
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Please only complain if you felt compeled to do so before you saw it on the internet telling you to do so. It smacks of people who complain about TV shows they never saw, but read about a week later in a newspaper and religious people moaning about being offended and trying to organise complaints together.

Rollcage

11,327 posts

192 months

Friday 5th October 2012
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speedchick said:
Even the Mail is getting in on the act
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2213299/In...
As I said, they've got it all wrong. Viewed in context (ie the full clip), it's not what it seems to be when you just watch 10 seconds of it.