Sunday 4 February 2018

Paul Mason complains about someone he doesn't like being interviewed on the BBC



Oh yes, the far-Left are really flocking and furiously flapping their bright red wings this morning - and there's still an hour to go until The Andrew Marr Show begins. 

They really don't want Claire Kober - who resigned as Labour leader of Haringey Council accusing such people of bullying - to be 'platformed' by the show. Or at least 'platformed' without a balancing bully being present.

One of them, however, (a former economics editor at the BBC no less, who's never off the BBC) flew straight into a window...
Rob Burley: Also on #marr the Leader of Haringey Council Claire Kober - on why she's resigning after ten years in the job. Tomorrow at 9am BBC1.
Paul Mason: Why don’t the BBC just give Kober her own channel?
Tom Hamilton: I don’t think she’s got enough broadcast experience, she probably couldn’t sustain a whole channel on her own, on balance it makes more sense just to interview her on an existing channel and then show a range of other programmes designed to appeal to different audiences.
Rob Burley: Yes, I'm with Tom on this.

Update: It continues...
Paul Mason‏: Will you be interviewing anybody from Haringey Labour Party or any of the tenants whose homes she wanted to hand to Lend Lease?
Rob Burley: No, as I've said, you have been on the show and know this, we are an interview programme holding politicians to account. We have spoken to residents groups and Momentum (they were very helpful).

3 comments:

  1. Typical of Masons to try and exert influence through their Old Boys Network.

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  2. No doubt in Paul Mason’s mind the Claire Kober affair is the dictatorship of the proletariat in action.

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  3. The variable precedent rule seems firmly in place in Paul's head, and not just his, namely anyone they don't like requires a raft of people they do surrounding them screaming like in 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers'.

    If the main interviewee is a friend of the family, the clear requirement is they are accorded full Morgan honours and personal space, and no dodgy cartoons.

    The BBC amazingly seems pretty on board most times.

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