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If you want to know why John Humphrys gets far, far fewer mentions on this blog than, say, James Naughtie, the reason can be heard here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8608000/8608788.stm
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I hope they'd hidden the Today programme staplers away before that interview!
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Full marks for Mr Humphrys!
Who’s on Question Time Tonight? #BBCQT
9 hours ago
I heard the opening of his interview. All sounded objective stuff, asking questions in a reasonable way and Brown knowing he's going to be given time to respond. It's just that oftentimes this isn't how he approaches Tory interviews. At 07:16 this morning he interviewed NI letter signee Sir Stuart Rose. There wasn't too much questionable about the interview, althought some of Sir Stuart's replies hinted at the undercurrent of bias from Humphreys, but then at the end Humphrys' three times asks him if he's only saying what he's saying because he's after a peerage. Doesn't get asked of pro-Labour business people.
ReplyDeleteIn contrast , Andrew Neil, on Wednesday's Daily Politics kept pressing the pathetic Lord Adonis to name one business leader who supported the NI increase. Eventually, the rather intellectually challenged, Adonis came up with the name "Alan Sugar ".
ReplyDeleteAndrew pointed out that Sugar was not CEO of an FT company and had been awarded a peerage by Labour !
In my youth anything made by Amstrad was considered to be crap !
Er, "FT" should have read " Footsie" !
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