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Kuenssberg in trouble for misrepresenting Corbyn
Asked him a question, then switched the question in the edited package. I would have thought this 'journalist of the year' should be more than scolded Quote:
The BBC has scolded its Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg for a “failure of due accuracy” in a report on Jeremy Corbyn. http://www.thecanary.co/2017/01/05/b...ng-corbyn-bbc/
Leaked to The Herald, the “drafted findings” by watchdog the BBC Trust uphold a viewer’s complaint against the Political Editor. The complaint argued that Kuenssberg misrepresented the Labour leader’s ‘shoot-to-kill’ policy in a BBC News at Six item on the November 2015 Paris attacks. Kuenssberg claimed she had asked Corbyn whether he would be happy for officers to pull the trigger if a Paris-style attack took place in the UK, according to a BBC Trust document. But the complaint asserted that the question she had asked Corbyn in the original interview was “substantially different” to how she paraphrased it on BBC News. In the longer interview, Kuenssberg asked: But if you were Prime Minister, would you be happy to order people – police or military – to shoot to kill on Britain’s streets? Corbyn replied: I’m not happy with a shoot-to-kill policy in general. I think that is quite dangerous and I think can often be counter-productive. I think you have to have security that prevents people firing off weapons where you can. |
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BBC News does not accept the assertions made and the complaint has been rejected on four separate occasions already. Doesn't sound very scolding
The Trust has not published a finding regarding this appeal and BBC News has further evidence it is still to present this month before that happens. |
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Straight from the Nick Robinson school of reporting. Ask a question, get a reply, then edit it to show he didn't reply.
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Isn't she the one who covered up the Queen backing Brexit?
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Not surprised by anything that pinch-faced little madam does.
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I can't stand that woman, her arrogance is so irritating.
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I like her.
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I can't stand that woman, her arrogance is so irritating.
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Isn't she the one who covered up the Queen backing Brexit?
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Asked him a question, then switched the question in the edited package. I would have thought this 'journalist of the year' should be more than scolded
http://www.thecanary.co/2017/01/05/b...ng-corbyn-bbc/ |
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If you mean she didn't run a story because she could not verify it with a second source - yes
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No, that must be a different one. I am am talking about the BBC corespondent who usually gossips any bit of old tat on the Daily Politics - but refused to share what she had heard about the queen until she had a second source. She eventually got her second source and in her own words realised the event in question had happened but still refused to share it until recently.
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Straight from the Nick Robinson school of reporting. Ask a question, get a reply, then edit it to show he didn't reply.
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Been a long time coming her comeuppance is well overdue, but hey, those of us who have complained about BBC bias are paranoid, not in the least surprised to see at least one poster supporting lies and bias so long as they don't like the victim, not surprised at all,
lets see if she has her award taken off her |
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Not sure why anyone is surprised the BBC have been misreporting and misquoting politicians for years dependant on the editorial stance at the time. I think it is finally hitting home that because many support Corbyn they wish to see him reported properly. I think it is too late the lack of action over the years has made the Beeb's political dept think that what they believe is how the news should be reported and they think Corbyn is not the one.
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Been a long time coming her comeuppance is well overdue, but hey, those of us who have complained about BBC bias are paranoid, not in the least surprised to see at least one poster supporting lies and bias so long as they don't like the victim, not surprised at all,
lets see if she has her award taken off her |
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They have been misreporting the BNP for years. For some reason many who are now complaining about Corbyn's coverage saw nothing wrong with skewed reporting of a legal political party. I do not support Corbyn but I think he should be reported fairly and without bias. I would extend that to all legal political parties but many do not and are now vexed at the bias. Welcome to the real world of bias, misreporting, misquoting and downright lying.
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Part of the problem is that many of the BBC senior political reporters used to be Conservatives.
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All a bit confusing. I've been told so often how left wing the BBC is and now apparently the BBC misreport the only left wing leader of the three (or should i say two now) main parties whilst employing a political journalist with this background:
"The daughter of Scottish businessman Nick Kuenssberg, OBE, and his wife Sally Kuenssberg, CBE, her paternal grandfather was the German-born founder and president of the Royal College of General Practitioners, Dr. Ekkehard von Kuenssberg. Her maternal grandfather, Lord Robertson, was a High Court of Justiciary judge. Her great-uncle was the last British Governor General of Nigeria, Sir James Wilson Robertson. Kuenssberg was born in Italy, while her father was working there for Coats Viyella. She grew up in Glasgow, with her brother and sister, and attended Laurel Park School, an independent girls' school. Kuenssberg studied history at the University of Edinburgh, followed by a journalism course at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., where she worked on an NBC News political programme. Her brother is a senior civil servant in the Department for Communities and Local Government. Her sister is a diplomat and was appointed as the UK High Commissioner to Mozambique in 2014." ..... although this is her wiki page |
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They have been misreporting the BNP for years. For some reason many who are now complaining about Corbyn's coverage saw nothing wrong with skewed reporting of a legal political party. I do not support Corbyn but I think he should be reported fairly and without bias. I would extend that to all legal political parties but many do not and are now vexed at the bias. Welcome to the real world of bias, misreporting, misquoting and downright lying.
When I have seen that and heard that coming from Griffin's own mouth, then forgive me if I say I feel no sympathy whatsoever for anyone who says such vile things, NOTE, these are not made up quotes or quotes taken out of context in order to distort facts. From the fascists mouth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04Qo...ctr=1483666312 care to point out where they are being misrepresented? |
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I think the actual problem is that most the BBC is Blairite. The BBC's treatment of Corbyn as a result has been nothing short of disgusting. It is almost like Alistair Campbell shapes BBC editorials.
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I think the actual problem is that most the BBC is Blairite. The BBC's treatment of Corbyn as a result has been nothing short of disgusting. It is almost like Alistair Campbell shapes BBC editorials.
I DO believe they are very much pro establishment and the maintenance of a two party state, one in which the two main parties DO have differences but differences which are not too far apart, differences which will keep the establishment and the supper rich minority who control our country living the lives they have become accustomed to over many centuries, the little people of the 'herd' will be more than happy to continue to be good little consumers happy with the illusion that they really DO have a choice, See they love to tell us how much they support democracy, so long as democracy does as it's told, but once in a while along comes someone like Corbyn, a politician who can't be bought or intimidated into going away, one who could actually derail their cosy little gravy train, and actually convince the herd that the CAN be another way, a fairer way a more equal society, Of course those with the most power and the most to lose will use everything they have to poison the herd against him, they will use the media they control and own to lie and to distort the truth, "they hate the rich, they are jealous of YOUR success, they are the friends of the 'scroungers' and the enemies of those who work hard" and people believe it, and yet look around, who is screwing over the hard working people of this country? it certainly aint the poor. |
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I noticed last week that when the BBC reported that Corbyn was criticising the New Years honours list, they continually added the comment that he was also guilty of cronyism toward Chakrabati - so his criticisms lacked credibility.
Now this comment was not a piece of news, they were not reporting that some Tory was saying this about Jeremy Corbyn. This was the BBC feeling the need to pass its own judgement on Corbyn's statement. All done in name of independent reporting? I think not. |
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I'm glad that posters of different political persuasions are recognising that it's a mistake to describe BBC bias as pro Left or pro Tory.
As they say, the bias is more likely to be pro-establishment. Which is a significant difference. And helpful, because it helps inform how you view the political parties in general and what motivates them. |
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In the wake of the Paris attack Corbyn's answer seems odd regardless of how the question was phrased.
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