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With Kirsty Wark, Gavin Esler is the most blatantly biased of the Newsnight presenters. His performance on last night's programme saw him act without restraint as a partisan for Tony Blair. He praised the former prime minister and defended him (alongside John Prescott, not pictured) against Eric Pickles and the ubiquitous Chris Huhne with a passion unbecoming of a supposedly impartial interviewer. He interrupted Eric Pickles relentlessly and, when Mr Huhne turned his always-withering fire on TB's business activities, turned on him too, calling his remarks 'outrageous'. Esler was so actively involved in backing Tony Blair that he exercised little or no control over the debate. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/default.stm
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The interruption coefficients here tell part of the story:
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Eric Pickles - 1.6
Chris Huhne - 0.8
John Prescott - 0.6
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notice on the beeb webshite nothing about gavin and bias towards liebore.bbc sucks get rid
ReplyDeleteThat "interview" was a disgrace. Eric didn't land any punches but then he was dignified and polite.
ReplyDeleteThat was a lesson in how not to conduct an interview!
Why on earth do the BBC keep featuring a third-rate has-been like John (not pictured) Prescott ?
ReplyDeleteIt is very mysterious.
Eric, whose office always replies courteously to my e-mails, has a wonderful way of conducting himself during interviews.
ReplyDeleteHis dry humour and willingness to point out when he is being over-interrupted are winning qualities but even they couldn't really him withstand the combined onslaught of a near-hysterical Esler and a rampaging bull-prescott (who, as Grant says, the BBC still can't get enough of, inexplicably).
Prescott is an effective communicator popular with a lot of voters.
ReplyDeleteBiased. Proof that a lot of voters are as brain dead as Prescott !
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