"Sack Kay Burley, watch the BBC""

mike65

SKY NEWS IS ****!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSlt-vedyL8

Seifer

Lol, that's brilliant.
Their Americanisation of the British election campaigns would piss me off if I was over there too.

PARKHEAD67

Funny:D

mike65

More Kay Burley in full "Bully Burley" mode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELJh2bTK1ew

Seifer

She's some moron. She's talking as if there's a "Hung Parliament" box to tick on the ballot paper.

AntiRip

I couldn't give a crap about the british elections, but that seems so wrong what she did to that fellow. She showed him no respect at all for his views. "Why don't you go home and watch it on sky news", I would have fu*ked her out of it at this point. He acted a lot more professional than her tbh

Kiwi_knock

Her behaviour in that interview is disgraceful, she asked him questions but would not let him answer. Said she could not understand why he was there and because he could not answer in 3 words she dismissed him. It really shows how dominated Sky News is by the Tories, they do not want talk of electoral reform. It is weird that Sky News were behind getting the Debates on TV so that British politics would be reformed but will not listen to people who talk about reforming a crucial aspect of politics. Sky News ran ads constantly about signing a petition for the debate but then dismiss a petition that involves reforming British politics because it will endanger the Tories.

A Dub in Glasgo

Sky News are a fecking joke anyway. I always watch the BBC. Remeber the 'interview' with George Galloway regarding the Israeli - Palestinian conflict, the staff are so moronic.

shotgun mike

you mightn't like it, but sky news still breaks much more news than the BBC, has more exclusive live feeds and obviously has a lot more resources to do so...

mike65

Sky news doesn't so much break news as smash it to pieces! They just go to air early whereas the beeb waits until its verified. "Sky News - Never wrong for long"

shotgun mike

buts its still where most people get their information first, and no matter how much people might bitch and moan, it is still respected by political figures and other media outlets. For example, Alister Darling today confirmed to sky news that Britain would not support a euro zone bail out fund. He didn't say it to the BBC, he told sky. And when the chancellor of the exchequer is using you as an outlet, your doing something right. that informations was rightly picked up by reuters and pa and sent around the world, but it originated on sky.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jqX5u0eSMnShwAQf5cZfX9D1Dz4A

A Dub in Glasgo

shotgun mike wrote: »

For example, Alister Darling today confirmed to sky news that Britain would not support a euro zone bail out fund. He didn't say it to the BBC, he told sky. [/url]

That was hardly news as the UK is not in the euro zone therefore there was no chance of the UK bailing out the euro zone!

ejmaztec

I wonder what ever happened to Sky's Frank Partridge, the guy sacked years ago for giving her a good thump during a row at Sky HQ. I don't think that he ever worked again.

shotgun mike

A Dub in Glasgo wrote: »

That was hardly news as the UK is not in the euro zone therefore there was no chance of the UK bailing out the euro zone!

so the fact the Britain is possibly set to block attempts to deal with the biggest threat to global financial stability since Lehman Brothers is not news then? Right. Hardly. You'd have to wonder why the times: http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/markets/europe/article7121099.ece

ABC online:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/05/10/2894423.htm?section=justin

Reuters:
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLAL00442920100509?type=marketsNews

UKPA:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5ikAro89hOnKr4aQEfyuCFNp5oGkA

and rte.ie

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0509/euro.html

all chose to reports his remarks if its 'hardly news'.

BroomBurner

shotgun mike wrote: »

you mightn't like it, but sky news still breaks much more news than the BBC, has more exclusive live feeds and obviously has a lot more resources to do so...

Funny how they chose not to report the news of the Conservative MP and her "gay-curing" Church.

Sky pick and choose what news they decide to break. You can be sure that the news is never anything that might harm the reputation of the owners and their "chosen friends".

Haven't seen ole Kay on Sky at all today. Maybe she's been given a few days off in the hope that the storm will pass and everyone will conveniently forget what she did.

Dinner

shotgun mike wrote: »

you mightn't like it, but sky news still breaks much more news than the BBC, has more exclusive live feeds and obviously has a lot more resources to do so...

They break more news because they don't wait for confirmation. A couple of days ago they're 'Breaking News' ticker was saying about reports of a piece of hand luggage that had exploded in an American airport. A few minutes later they updated it to say that it had not been an exploding piece of hand luggage, it had just made a bang when somebody dropped it.

If it had been true, they would have been breaking the news before anyone else. But it wasn't, so it joins the no doubt countless other examples of Sky news stories that were put on the ticker too fast.

A Dub in Glasgo

shotgun mike wrote: »

so the fact the Britain is possibly set to block attempts to deal with the biggest threat to global financial stability since Lehman Brothers is not news then? Right.

I'm sorry but where did the expectation come from that a country not in the euro zone should help pay for the euro zone problems? There is absolutely no expectation in the UK therefore this is a non event.

shotgun mike

A Dub in Glasgo wrote: »

I'm sorry but where did the expectation come from that a country not in the euro zone should help pay for the euro zone problems? There is absolutely no expectation in the UK therefore this is a non event.

If your not even following the story at all, why are you posting?

Darling, along the the 26 other finance minsiters, are meeting in brussels trying to find a way to stop fears of the greek debt crisis spreading panic both to the euro and other markets in the euro area. any solution would conceivably have to be approved by him, and by every other finance minister in the EU. At the moment he is he signalling support for doubling an existing pot of EU budget cash for emergency loans to member states facing deficit problems... considering members of the euro don't have the luxury of quantitive easing, this is their bail-out.

Mr Ed

In fairness to Kay the interview is taken out of centext as the protesters mucked about with her OB earlier in the day hence the tough interview for the organiser

A Dub in Glasgo

shotgun mike wrote: »

If your not even following the story at all, why are you posting?

Darling, along the the 26 other finance minsiters, are meeting in brussels trying to find a way to stop fears of the greek debt crisis spreading panic both to the euro and other markets in the euro area. any solution would conceivably have to be approved by him, and by every other finance minister in the EU. At the moment he is he signalling support for doubling an existing pot of EU budget cash for emergency loans to member states facing deficit problems... considering members of the euro don't have the luxury of quantitive easing, this is their bail-out.

I know what he was there for so tell me this, why do you think the UK were going to bail out the euro?

A Dub in Glasgo

Mr Ed wrote: »

In fairness to Kay the interview is taken out of centext as the protesters mucked about with her OB earlier in the day hence the tough interview for the organiser

No fairness at all, she is meant to be a journalist and Sky News are meant to be a News broadcaster. This means that events earlier in the day should be irrelevant.

RayM

Some more great "journalism" from Sky News. This time, it's their political editor, Adam Boulton:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbAhrt9M5Fk

Sky is to the Tories what Fox is to the Republicans. Unfortunately for them, there are (currently) rules against that kind of thing in the UK.

irishh_bob

RayM wrote: »

Some more great "journalism" from Sky News. This time, it's their political editor, Adam Boulton:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbAhrt9M5Fk

Sky is to the Tories what Fox is to the Republicans. Unfortunately for them, there are (currently) rules against that kind of thing in the UK.

thats a tad unfair , while murdoch has hitched his wagon to the conservatives for this election , sky news is nothing like the blatant propoganda machine that is fox news and while i cant stand the provocative whore that is kay burley , shes no megan kelly

RayM

irishh_bob wrote: »

thats a tad unfair , while murdoch has hitched his wagon to the conservatives for this election , sky news is nothing like the blatant propoganda machine that is fox news and while i cant stand the provocative whore that is kay burley , shes no megan kelly

Until fairly recently, I would have agreed that, despite being every bit as trashy, Sky was nowhere near as partisan as Fox. But over the past few months, Adam Boulton, in particular, has been displaying more and more overt bias towards the Tories (or rather, against their opponents), even turning his attentions towards Nick Clegg during the leaders' debate. In a way, it's worse than what Fox News does. It would be ok to go all "Bill O'Reilly" on interviewees if Boulton's job title was "blow-hard pundit", but he's supposed to be their political editor - a job which presumably requires a modicum of impartiality.

mike65

I genuinely think that Boulton is out on his feet you could sense he ws about to burst into tears near the end of that exchange. Someone should have the wit to stand him down for a day or two.

rednik

Sky News HD doesn't do a lot for Kay Burley's plastic face, this is probably why she is off at the moment.

Bodhisopha

I happened to be watching and Kay Burley basically bullied that protestor because minutes earlier she was trying to conduct an interview and they couldn't be heard Sky News clearly because of the protests. She turned to the camera and said we can't hear the interview, let's go to a break only to be told on her earpiece that she couldn't go to a break. Then she got the hump. Don't like the protest? Fúck off back to your studio.


Edit: Just watched the first video on thread, that will go some way to explaining it too.

irishh_bob

RayM wrote: »

Until fairly recently, I would have agreed that, despite being every bit as trashy, Sky was nowhere near as partisan as Fox. But over the past few months, Adam Boulton, in particular, has been displaying more and more overt bias towards the Tories (or rather, against their opponents), even turning his attentions towards Nick Clegg during the leaders' debate. In a way, it's worse than what Fox News does. It would be ok to go all "Bill O'Reilly" on interviewees if Boulton's job title was "blow-hard pundit", but he's supposed to be their political editor - a job which presumably requires a modicum of impartiality.

interestingly , i heard a british journalist ( cant remember his name ) hint to pat kenny this morning that adam boulton was not a conservative but was under pressure from the murdoch machine to push for the torries

RichTea

shotgun mike wrote: »

you mightn't like it, but sky news still breaks much more news than the BBC, has more exclusive live feeds and obviously has a lot more resources to do so...

Didn't Sky 'News' break that the Tories and Liberal Democrats were about to announce a coalition just yesterday? That turned out to be a great news story, didn't it? :rolleyes:

mike65

irishh_bob wrote: »

interestingly , i heard a british journalist ( cant remember his name ) hint to pat kenny this morning that adam boulton was not a conservative but was under pressure from the murdoch machine to push for the torries

I think thats a given at this stage, you might like to read this by ex Sun editor David Yelland which sums up the Murdoch press attitude.

mike65

Kay Burley strikes again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDYalpZhG_8

what a dreadful ignorant woman

Corsendonk

Its Sky News....................do you expect a better standard after all these years?

Rubik.

"You seem to be a bit dim":D

copacetic

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/chris-bryant-mp-my-onair-spat-with-sky-newss-kay-burley-2075473.html

Chris Bryant MP: My on-air spat with Sky News's Kay Burley

When I agreed to go on Sky News yesterday afternoon I did not even know who I would be speaking with, let alone that just minutes afterwards the clip would be posted on YouTube, shared on Twitter and I would be flooded with emails and text messages.


My interview with Kay Burley started to go badly when she pulled me up for suggesting that the practice of journalists using illegal techniques was endemic at British newspapers and suggested I had no evidence for that. I was referring to the widely publicised Information Commissioners report of 2006 which showed that there were more than 1,000 instances of journalists illegally buying confidential information at UK newspapers.

It was at that point I realised that she appeared not to have read into the story and I said she was being a bit dim. Later she compounded my view when she suggested that all I needed to do was change my PIN and everything would be fine.

My PIN had nothing to do with my phone being hacked. Someone phoned Orange, my mobile network provider, and tried to pretend to be me in order to gain access to my voicemails. There are lots of ways to hack a phone and that is why I called for a debate on this matter because I don't think it has been discussed properly.

I do not have any bad blood with Kay or any media organisations. Nor, as has been speculated on the internet, was I inferring that News International and Rupert Murdoch's news organisations had been ignoring the story.

But my interpretation of a television journalist is someone who is independent. Kay Burley seemed to have made up her mind about this story before we went on air. She had taken a view that it was not important.

After I came off air I had lots of texts and emails and I know that it has been doing the rounds on Twitter, too. I know that people are congratulating me for taking her on. It seems she is famed for rubbing people up the wrong way, but I was not aware of that before I went on air. Like I said, I didn't even know who I would be speaking with until she introduced me, so it is not as if I went on with a plan to argue with her. In any case, I think I was rather charming. I even said "if you don't mind me saying so..." after I called her dim.

Kintarō Hattori

I saw that clip yesterday on YouTube and had a good laugh. She really is awful and fully deserved what was said to her.