Robert PEston - PHD in stating the bleedin' obvious!

[johnfm]

THis guy must have a bloody good agent. Not only is he all over the BBC, he writes for the Times too.

Is it me, or is he just regurgitating the bleeding obvious most of the time?

[The Black Flash]

johnfm said:

Is it me, or is he just regurgitating the bleeding obvious most of the time?

Yes, but he does it in that special drawl that only he can do.

[NoelWatson]

He is a pustule stained horse hair merkin, and offends me only slighly less than Broon.

[Ahhh Moneypenny]

He is a Turd
IMO of course

[scotal]

NoelWatson said:

He is a pustule stained horse hair merkin, and offends me only slighly less than Broon.

Hear Hear. His political affiliations and relationships should be put up as a "possibility of bias" warning evey time he is on the news.

Still he's on my list, so come the glorious revolution.........

[scotal]

anonymous said:

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He's broon's biographer...... the interview would be toecurlingly sycophantic.

[Pat H]

The Black Flash said:

johnfm said:

Is it me, or is he just regurgitating the bleeding obvious most of the time?

Yes, but he does it in that special drawl that only he can do.

Yep, he is truly terrible.

His speech flows seamlessly from high pressure verbal diarrhoea to an almost
constipated full stop, all within the confines of a sentence.

He also gives the impression of being supremely smug that he is the narrator of the present financial catastrope.

He makes me want to turn off the radio almost as much as the theme tune to The Archers.

[off_again]

I have to say that I dislike the bloke. Not only is rather slimy, there is no change there for media presenters, but he can make even a lottery win, sunny day and empty roads into some doom-and-gloom end-of-the-world story!

I do attribute some of the current media's fascination with the current crisis down to this man. I am not suggesting that he had / has any impact on it, but by starting with that style of reporting, ever other news outlet has tried to copy it - hence the downward spiral of media reporting that we now see....

Give me the facts, the details and the important bits. Not some self-publicising claptrap about why we are all going to be living in mud huts next year.....

Cock.

[scotal]

off_again said:

I do attribute some of the current media's fascination with the current crisis down to this man. I am not suggesting that he had / has any impact on it, but by starting with that style of reporting, ever other news outlet has tried to copy it - hence the downward spiral of media reporting that we now see.....

He is widely credited with breaking the Northern Rock Story. Had he not brought that into the public domain, they would have continued to fund, and may have found a way ouit of the mess they were in.

Mr Peston's Sources are also very mysterious, and he is "supposed " to be getting info directly form no.s 10 & 11 Downing Steeet.

[Ozzie Osmond]

Peston is the WORST economic commentator by a huge distance. Absolutely hopeless in both content and style.

We can only assume that he was appointed by the same BBC management who thought Mr Ross was worth an £18m contract.....

[smack]

Another BBC reporter with a too greater vested interest to be in the role he occupies. And it borders on farcical that the business editor of the BBC is nothing more than puppet of the current government.

Edited by smack on Thursday 11th December 10:24

[NoelWatson]

Pustule is being questioned by U.K. Treasury Committee now.

[scotal]

NoelWatson said:

Pustule is being questioned by U.K. Treasury Committee now.

How's he doing?

[NoelWatson]

scotal said:

NoelWatson said:

Pustule is being questioned by U.K. Treasury Committee now.

How's he doing?

Actually not too badly (unfortunately). They are not giving him a massive grilling about from where he sources his info (he said he wouldn't say and they didn't push it)

[navier_stokes]

NoelWatson said:

scotal said:

NoelWatson said:

Pustule is being questioned by U.K. Treasury Committee now.

How's he doing?

Actually not too badly (unfortunately). They are not giving him a massive grilling about from where he sources his info (he said he wouldn't say and they didn't push it)

Yes, the accused "media" panel seem to be far more coherent than the questioning panel!

[NoelWatson]

navier_stokes said:

NoelWatson said:

scotal said:

NoelWatson said:

Pustule is being questioned by U.K. Treasury Committee now.

How's he doing?

Actually not too badly (unfortunately). They are not giving him a massive grilling about from where he sources his info (he said he wouldn't say and they didn't push it)

Yes, the accused "media" panel seem to be far more coherent than the questioning panel!

Randall is good.

[A4_Family_Man]

One effect of the Credit Crunch is that I actually recognise Robert Peston.

[Ozzie Osmond]

A4_Family_Man said:

One effect of the Credit Crunch is that I actually recognise Robert Peston.

...recognise that he's truly hopeless, I should think! The man's a complete and utter waste of time. BBC has many on the team who are much better than the dreadful waffler Peston.

[Gunny Sergeant D]

He just got a major league slating on Newsnight. Paxo was visibly upset that someone was having a pop at a respected BBC journo.

[Rob P]

There is a strong argument for the fact he started the entire global financial crisis.

He is a tit, got on TV, tit became widespread, people feared the tit, then it spread to radio, newspapers and now on a daily basis...everyone is talking about the tit now.