PMs change and lol we're all gonna die (but brexit will never end)

So I rang 03700 100 222.
Me: I wish to make a complaint about a tweet from a BBC political journalist.
Person: Laura Kuenssberg?
Me: Yep. How did you know?
Person: You're not the first.
Me: And I won't be the last.

— jennylandreth (@jennylandreth) September 18, 2019

You say this but

BBC statement about Laura Kuenssberg pic.twitter.com/qzO9eZMMOj

— BBC News Press Team (@BBCNewsPR) September 18, 2019

Wow

Here, for instance, we see a Telegraph columnist spreading the nonsense conspiracy theory that he was micced up (by who? Why?) and retweeting somebody actually trying to suggest that the man's daughter doesn't exist at all. Very cool and normal stuff from the press here. pic.twitter.com/Wn4aT7DF7f

— Sadie Cash (@SadieCashbat) September 18, 2019

Long night for the BBC news press team twitter account

one of my fave quotes from a fawning transparent tory bbc hack recently was from Nick Robinson where he said (talking about their impartial quality journalism) "it's our job to turn the light on, but if you (the listener/viewer) don't take notice.."

xxp pretty sure I saw someone point out the guy she was retweeting was an obvious fash

yeah i’ve got no expectation that she’ll suffer any consequences from reporting a story about the pm nakedly lying to the father of a sick seven-day-old girl about the presence of the media right in front of the media as ‘he’s a labour activist and here is his twitter’ but i like to imagine it’ll be at least a minor inconvenience

I don't think there was malicious intent either, but whether it was malicious or not is beside the point.

it’s just plain terrible reporting

I don’t think she’s earned the benefit of the doubt given her history. Her tweets are almost always slapdash and careless, idg why she is so highly regarded.

Also even less inclined to give any benefit of doubt considering every fascist on twitter has been spreading fucked up conspiracy theories and racism about this guy & his family. Is this the kind of stuff you’d expect from Guido and the various fash rags? Yes. Should anyone put up with this from the state broadcaster? Definitely not.

Did she delete the 'This is him here' tweet?

thats it remains up is some evidence of intent imo

xp no it’s on 15k replies

nah, still up

The BBC press team is now retweeting Spectator articles defending Laura K. This doesn't feel like defensible behaviour and I feel like at some point the outrage is going to grow and they're going to move from wagon-circling to self-flagellation like they usually do in these situations. She'll be required to trot out some prewritten Mea Culpa and keep her job.

Laura K to undergo social media training to keep her job challenge

It’s quite a dead cat to throw out there and I feel the story would have been brushed over in the usual way had it not been for this. I’m seeing people who spend their lives on twitter ranting about Corbyn angry about this - they may have fucked it. She needs firing but her horrendous “we have to platform the fash & every right wing think tank that’d sell you for parts” producer Rob Burley even more so.

the whole bbc political dept needs liquidating and replacing with fawning McD creatures for a decade - just for the balance.

Rob Burley threatening randoms on Twitter with libel action for calling him out re: his inclusion of far right contributors to his programming.

He's claiming they'd do the same thing if it was a Tory activist berating Jeremy Corbyn, except I'm not sure they actually would and certainly not just chuck it out there without adequate context.

I hope this is really blowing up into something bigger than usual old outrage about the CBBCHQ

If they did actually point out every Tory or UKIP/Brexit activist who's gone ham at a Labour MP on Question Time they'd be covering nothing else.

xp they really wouldn’t! Remember, Jeremy Corbyn got smacked by a right-wing arsehole who snuck into a mosque and most of the commentariat were mirthful.

He's claiming they'd do the same thing if it was a Tory activist berating Jeremy Corbyn, except I'm not sure they actually would and certainly not just chuck it out there without adequate context.

The BBC certainly aren’t so forthcoming every time they’ve got Tory or UKIP councillors in the QT audience - always emerges after the fact.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/17420529.question-time-faces-furious-backlash-over-audience-bias/

There are a lot of fucking truthers out there convinced that a blurry photo has him wearing a battery pack for a mic.

the bbc and baroness Laura have managed to unwittingly unite lots of people who usually spend their lives trash-talking corbyn, and concentrate all their trash talking energy towards the bbc political dept, boris and the tories for a news cycle - so job well done lads.

Whipps Cross is about ten minutes from where I grew up in London.
I used to walk through the grounds quite frequently in my teens.

it's really hard to say who's right here, let's face it.

Guys, Liz truss is over here in Australia and we don't like it, can you take her back?

Ugh, what’s she doing over there?

A doctor from Whipps Cross has spoken to the guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/sep/18/the-harsh-reality-of-underfunding-at-my-hospital-swept-away-for-johnson-visit

She's saying Australia should sign a freedom of movement deal with the UK. Aussies good, Poles bad

Whipps Cross is about ten minutes from where I grew up in London.

It's my local hospital. Had to take my daughter there on a Sunday afternoon about a year ago and ended up spending over 8 hours waiting around - I dread ever going there.

Abysmal 'statement' from the beeb. There was no malicious 'intent', it was a bad and all too telling error.

https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2019/sep/18/the-harsh-reality-of-underfunding-at-my-hospital-swept-away-for-johnson-visit

Not just that there was none, but that to suggest otherwise is ‘absurd’. Strong ‘calm down dear’ tory vibes.

xp

Press Officer hastily cobbling together a statement on iPhone Notes, is it?

She's saying Australia should sign a freedom of movement deal with the UK. Aussies good, Poles bad

― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 19 September 2019 5:04 PM (twenty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

What the tories think they'll get - Sports loving, shrimp on the barbie tossing, big hat wearing, anglo racists
What Free movement means - Aussies of 2nd and 3rd generation Eastern European, Chinese, Vietnamese, Indian heritage

Otm, this is also the case with their fetishising of the points system.

Aussie Chief Gammon

https://images.app.goo.gl/rheupNfBiAXSKHYMA

Try this

https://www.abc.net.au/news/image/7929636-3x2-940x627.jpg

I thought Truss might be promoting UK cheese as well, we are producing more varieties of cheese than the French y'know (although going into the local Co-op doesn't show much evidence of this)

Ugh this Humphrys send off is nauseating

oh is he going? i heard two minutes of him pal-ing it up with Tony Hall and thought this was their oblique spin on l'affaire Kuenssberg

Today's gonna be at least 1000 percent less kill-rage inducing from now on then

https://theaimn.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/b1047d56d293a84f9d0cad9446f59199-e1518309632791.jpg

i cant quite figure out if im surprised or not at that bbcpr statement, or if im surprised that thats as far as this is going to go

can’t believe the PM’s office are actually going w “I’m not mad I’m glad actually” as their line

also cant figure out if im becoming a conspiracy theorist by wondering why kuenssberg isnt currently trending on uk Twitter despite clearly having the numbers to be #1 by a distance

She’s not showing on my trending either but if you type in Laura it autofills her name and says she’s trending ¯\_(ツ)_/¯