And so farewell to John Sweeney, who's announced his departure from the BBC today in a string of tweets:
1. After 17 years I'm leaving the BBC. It's high time to make trouble elsewhere. First stop, Malta. With Carlo Bonini and Manuel Delia I've written Murder On The Malta Express: Who Killed Daphne Caruana Galizia, to be published on October 14 by Midsea Books.
2. Thanks to my great pals at BBC. Together we helped free 5 cot death mums starting with Sally Clark, jailed on wrong evidence of Prof Sir Roy Meadow. Trump got challenged over his links with Russian mob, Putin over the shoot-down of MH17 and I yelled at Church of Scientology.
3. I'm sorry our BBC Panorama on Tommy Robinson wasn't broadcast. (I paid for all the drinks, BTW.) So after 17 years I can finally say these are not the views of the BBC but he's a complete c**t. I remain an old school reporter, up for the right kind of trouble. I'll be back.
Do you think he will do a 'Paul Mason' and go completely of the rails?
ReplyDeleteI do.
Delete3. What an outrageous sign-off. Tommy exposed him and his racist,anti-gay and sexist opinions to which he gave full vent. He also exposed his journalistic methods. At the time Sweeney apologised for what he said. Now he's trying to make out he's the martyr.
ReplyDelete"I paid for all the drinks". Yes, but were you going to claim them on expenses before you were found out.
2. He shouted at the The Church of Scientology and he's proud of that for some reason. Is Scientology any worse or better than many other religions who use psychological pressure to keep people in the fold or providing free labour? It's not often reported but Scientologists seem to have helped a lot of people with serious mental health issues. Certainly, I can't recall any instances of Scientologists committing suicide - though I can think of plenty of examples from those being treated by the NHS or being part of other religions. Does Sweeney support the freedom to shout at any religion we wish to shout at?
1. Doesn't Sweeney see that the criminal persecution, media harrassment and unpersonning of Tommy Robinson is all of a piece with the murder of Daphne, another person an elite found too troublesome.
Oh no.
ReplyDeleteWhat a shame.
TV reporters these days slant reports with selected quotes out of context and images not synchronised with words spoken.
ReplyDeleteSweeny is another Pilger - biased and not interested in truth, but rather he wants a gotcha, coupled with denigation of whoever is the focus of his attention
Do you mean John Pilger ? If so, Sweeney isn't fit to clean Pilger's shoes.
DeletePilger was always a journalist who wore his heart on his sleeve. He researches thoroughly and you know exactly where you are when you watch his stuff. He is SJW journalism made flesh and he has had a difficult time because of it.
Sweeney is just a lying cartoonish git who'll twist and edit to achieve an outcome.
Remember, too, his 'Nigel Farage has blood on his hands' piece after the Harlow race hate 'murder' that never was? Another high point of BBC journalism.
ReplyDeleteDid he or the BBC ever apologise for that after the trial made clear there was no racial or xenophobic element? Er no...and because of that people will conclude they are not honourable people engaged in honest journalism. They are activists engaged in cheerleading some (Rory, Dominic, Chukka, Stella and Keith) and booing others (Farage, JRM, Boris and Raab).
DeleteYes, if anyone has a twitter account, they should mention that to him.
Oh dear. How sad. Never mind.
ReplyDeleteThey weren't exactly queuing up to laud him on his departure were they? Beeboiders are nothing if not cowards. Sweeney's homophobic pronouncements make him something of a leper in the media community..they fear contagion by association. Simpson too old and egotistical to care. Only Grossman showing a certain element of courage.
ReplyDeleteSorely missed.
ReplyDeleteJoining a noble alumni including Paul Mason, Gavin Esler, James O'Brien...
I wonder how often John will be invited back on Newsnight?
Yes, so far the Lefty Retirees are winning 5-1 against the Not Entirely Lefty Retirees Though Still Pretty Lefty All Things Considered (John Humphrys). Tells you something doesn't it?
DeleteStewGreen on BBBC has a piece from The Times by Matthew Moore which gives a different story altogether:
ReplyDeleteJohn Sweeney “has left .. after the collapse of an undercover documentary about the FAR-RIGHT* activist TR”
Yeah, even that Times article covered for him, neglecting to mention the homophobic comments which are what the BBC found really offensive.
DeleteLook Sweeney was not the first to expose the Scientology cult which many people knew about years previously
ReplyDeletebut he did a good job of publicising it.
The Scientologists are incredibly litigious, devious and persistent so the BBC probably guaranteed to him
that they would not let him be hounded of his job.
That is why he thought he was untouchable.
Panodrama exposed that Sweeney is now flawed.
It did damage the Panorama brand.
and I guess BBC decided Sweeney had to be distance from it... hence Sweeney was seperated.
The new TR Ezra video
ReplyDeleteThe first 7 minutes is background info, so 7 mins in to see Sweeney's tweets and then TR
Ezra is staggered by the way UK media doesn't report Sweeney's departure accurately
.... that he was taken down after he tried a corrupt sting against TR
..TR speaks about his new plans
His new video about a London Jewish guy
and the Rape Of Britain documentary which will be super difficult cos the police/establishment will want to keep him out of the rape towns , saying that TR's presence will incite trouble.
TR adds that he will be taking it steady
Deleteand not letting people provoke him
One project is a 6 chapter doco about 6 journos who have monstered him in their lying pieces
and successfully created the demon Tommy that lives in their readers minds.
The MSM use edited undercover work to further their aims. It will be interesting to see if TR continues using this approach which had such devastating effect re Panorama - it basically an Exocet hit that sank the programme.
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