Emily Maitlis has sparked a new BBC impartiality row after opening Newsnight with the words: “Dominic Cummings broke the rules. The country can see that and it’s shocked the Government cannot.”
Because it is a fact. Cummings is a despicable, lying hypocrite. Johnson is a lazy, deceitful, incompetent weasel. Those are facts.
Time to stop paying for this outright disregard for our democracy
She should be sacked - full stop.
That’s why we need to privatise them .ive stopped listening to them
What do you think Jeremy Paxman whould have said? Would he be treated this way too? He would be brutal...Andrew Neil has also seen the holes in this story, is he to be censored? Try it..
FBPE! Avoid, you can't reason with them
Well she ain't wrong
Telegraph 🤮🤮🤮
She is not a nice person. Like the rest of the women who work at the BBC, they are not who they present themselves to be. In reality, they hate the 17.4 million people who voted to leave.
So the MSM should be baying for blood... well they would be but she is one of them... one rule for them another of everyone else 🤭🤭
wait what? the BBC left leaning? shock! joke...has been for years, will continue to be. thank god it’s finally getting called out for what it is, an independent / guardian wannabe
This BITCH should be removed from the Nation’s TV screens by the BBC. She has given up all pretence at impartial reporting and is unfit to work for a Tax Payer Funded National Service Broadcaster. She, and many of her BBC Colleagues, richly deserve to be called ScumMedia
Scrap the biased BBC.
Yep, she stated the facts. You might try it some time.
sackmaitlis
wadeyart That face says self entitlement and I am bigger then the BBC!
Gerat1t She is a serial bias offender. The BBC could do much better. She has to go
The fact is she is not impartial at all!.A fully fledged Leftie being paid by a licence tax no one wants to pay !
MabelBr25051948 The public were judge and jury...and she got the boot!
Not a fact to be seen
Good to hear from the Torygraph on this issue. I trust you’re no longer giving money to the Tory party are you?
Gerat1t Quite simply she must resign or be sacked. Her bias screams out during every interview sackemilymaitlis
Ohh BBCNewsnight bbcnewsnight emilymaitlis gets her knuckles rapped & throws a diva hissy fit. Very professional
This fell far below the standards we expect from the BBC, fact and accusation need absolute demarcation. Pleased to see they are correcting the issue.
anitathetweeter great article
jan_sabin I miss Paxman.
Then she cannot present newsnight I haven’t watched it since Paxman, he gave two barrels to all, never questioned his impartiality at all as did the late Sir Robin Day RIP.
Just proves how biased the bbc are they never give anything positive they really hope everything is bad
End the license fee now , why should we pAy to hear the views of left wing biased reports likehers
Sack maitlis BBCNews
Will be interesting who gets the sack: Cummins or Maitliss
Truth hurts doesn’t it.
sackmaitlis maitlisResign MaitlisMustGo
susannareid100 Emily!!! Don't let the bastards grind you down 👌👋I know who the majority are backing YOU👍 BBC Time you grew a F----- pair & stand by your journalists simple but true ❤️
Doing a very poor job..... don’t worry you will be looking for a job very soon
susannareid100 See there is always a fall guy😢 when your dealing with incompetence in gov. Who got away with murder Dom!! According to a Uni friend Dom hated being told what to do😝snacks control freak dangerous level narcissistic eh Dom god save us❤️
it was a fact. I note none of her critics are disputing anything. maitlis was 100% truthful.
Meanwhile, Mr Magoo puts his child in the car and drives around BarnardCastle to check his eyesight...
Tell me one thing she said that wasn’t factual? Other than those determined to defend Cummings and the PM, no matter how grossly incompetent they are because they picked a side during the referendum, who else isn’t asking these questions? censorship
After peddling Boris' lies for years in your paper, it's no surprise that you fail to recognise a fact when you're told one.
It was all fact
Snowflakes what was not a fact, of what she said ? One RULE for them and another ONE for us, keep defending the RULE makers breaking the RULES. Meanwhile you peasants, plebs of all sorts, StayAlert and they will StayElite , truthtwisters
She should be sacked right away BBC should also have the licence fee taken from them and see if they survive in an open market
What did she say that wasn't factual? He did break the rules, he did make the public feel like fools, he did make people feel they can now flout the lockdown, Johnson did choose to ignore all that & refuse to sack him.
Emily Maitlis told the truth, the BBC have been nobbled by Boris Johnson, I am as of now refusing to pay my licence fee, I will not be dictated to by what is increasingly looking like the far right. Welcome to Little Britain - this is what you voted for.
maitlis is quite repulsive It appears to be a pre-requisite to appear on the BBC
What was incorrect in her summing up?
And she was right.
MaitlisMustGo maitlisResign one rule for everybody is what she says. Fair enough. She should do as she says and resign.
It is fact.
Lord Reith would hang his head in shame. sackmaitlis
She sure has an inflated sense of importance .
It is very clear that BBC reporters do not feel impartiality is their remit and their Board is unwilling to bring them into line so the government should start proceedings to set up a new national news service with clear rules of objectivity & BBC should be privatised.
To put it simple she was wrong.
Facts are like that. Inconvenient ain't it?
If you were moaning over Brexit....then looking for something new to moan about...then Cummings is your man to fill your moaning boots with...please can we look at the bigger picture, have a more positive outlook and be more constructive...then we will all achieve great things
t_pressland Bbc statement no apology no sackings but admit she broke the rules !
I turn off any BBC news related programmes now. It so institutionally biased it's unreal
maitlis reflected what people are thinking. That's not an attempt at bias. That's an acknowledgement of how angry we feel & saying so. We, the people, don't have any say with this Government & it is scary. Journalism should point that out. I am grateful to maitlis & Newnight
Who does she think she is? Too long hanging round the backslapping Islington set. Smug, elitist Tory haters.
Fake blonde, fake news
Oh good, he's dead then. Well executed
Paullam69876759 Fkn idiot!
No crime in callings a liar a liar.
They are all left on the BBC and if not they are brainwashed like the rest of the sheep. Fact is they live very, very comfortable existences on all of us who pay for the license. Sooner this Bias crap channel is abolished the better.
MopsEssex I don’t watch EmilysOpinionNight and stopped watching Newsnight a while ago. It had become an opinion piece for the presenter and contained a ‘selection’ of the news. I’m only watching the daily coronavirus briefing (mute the hacks) from now on. TurnOffTheHacks
Sorry stopped watching the BBC and Sky just over a month ago, relying on Al Jazeera now for my News.
I do hope that one day that the BBC gets so low on funds that they have to sack maitlis or offer her minimum wage rates.
geniuswriter1 She must go.
She doesn't deserve any air time. Why should We pay for her to broadcast her own political opinions. She is paid to read out loud and ask unbiased question, so the viewers can be a considered stance, it's not her first time.
Surely impartiality shouldn't apply to 'telling the truth and stating facts'? I think the finger needs pointing somewhere else when it comes to fact twisting to suit an agenda.
The ego has landed - now for Preston et al to follow
This Maitlis critter really should get kicked-out of the BBC, but she will not because they're all leftists who hang on her every word. mediascum
Maybe the same rule should apply for maitlis as well. She acted reasonably and followed the rules. Now let’s move on...
She recited the facts. If you disagree please tell us what statements were wrong.
The sane amongst us all are just happy someone at the Beeb spoke facts. Makes a pleasant change Beeb.
she only stated facts
She was stating a statement of fact as well as capturing the mood of the nation. The fact that she hit a nerve is why you Cummings toerags are squirming. BooAtBoris booforboris emilymaitlis was speaking for the nation.
Poor woman!
What’s wrong with Emily’s critique? Nothing. Anyone who disagrees has no idea what journalists are supposed to do. The Telegraph won’t know because it’s so far up Johnson’s fat arse. The public are right.
It is fact.
It was good to hear facts from maitlis instead of tory messages from Laura. There's a contrast at the BBC.
It was a fact! If it’s isn’t, prove it isn’t or fuck off?
Wahahahahaha the Telegraph printing articles about unfair impartiality 🤣🤣🤣 oh the irony.
mediascum
People should make complaint to Ofcom . This is a completely biased reporting and I stopped watching BBCNewsnight as a result.
She was just trying to gain a viewer before sinking into obscurity
Bit rich from Brigden whining about media bias towards his party and their unaccountable ministers. Presumably it's ok when the other way around...
She is an attention seeker that is paid out of tv licences. Should be sacked bbc
The exemption to the rules refers to 'safeguarding' issues, which means children and families at risk of domestic violence/abuse. I don't think this was relevant in this case was it?
These so call bbc journalist..mocking everything. £300k a year in some cases more...of are taxes pay for these individuals to spew utter EU basis bollocks. Think about that! It would take me 15 to 20 years to make this amount... probably more.
Maybe she should be fired?
And you were a newspaper that took facts seriously once upon a time.
Shoot the messenger.
And it was extremely well delivered so much so that we had to clap on feet when she finished. Go girl! maitlis, your country needs you!
Welcome to SkyNews own Cris Cuomo. Yuck 🤢
MaitlisMustGo
“She said it as a statement of fact.' That's because it was a statement of fact. Truth and impartiality are two different things. Truth is demonstrable. Impartiality is a matter of opinion!
The truth hurts
The tories would perhaps like her to read out a series of alternative facts.
She was stating a fact, unless you seriously expect the public to swallow the comical “eye test” story.
very poor journalism BBCNews
Maitlis thinks a lot of herself,vastly over-rated and way overpaid
Agree !
And she was right and the overwhelming majority of the population agree with her. The Johnsongraph officially a comic written by comedians
The telegraph saying this! Oh my stars- I actually belly laughed.
paulrey99 Hopefully Boris will sort out the licence fee. She get’s paid £300k & Lineker £2 million.
The rules are clear to everyone except Gov’t Ministers and Uber SPADs.
maitlis was spot on!
Good her journalism is second to none
It is fact
It was a fact. The PM telling us black is white does not make it so - except perhaps in your world. DominicCummings
More Momentum drivel from BBC. Sack her
She's awful and the beeb are finished
Maybe if a Minster had the balls to go on TV then this would not happen. Impartiality is met once you had the option. Also, DC was given the Rose Garden to be interviewed. How is that right?
Just stopping paying the TV Licence and get the BBC out of your life. You'll feel better without it.
And she was right
When Maitliss talks about the ' Public' of course she is still only talking probably about 46 % of the public....not 'all ' of the public and therefore in my view she is wrong.
I wonder if the ppl bleating 'it is a fact' realise how very biased and unthinking they are? Presumably not.
This isn't new. Iranian users started IslamicRepublicofbbc in reaction to clear bias of BBC toward Islamic Regime in Iran. & Guess what? Britain's ambassador in Tehran, himself decided to support BBC against peopleof Iran.
Because. It. Was. A. Statement. Of. Fact. Which part are you struggling with?
It was the truth. Tories and the Telegraph do not know what this is.
'She' was correct. Go maitlis 👏👏👏
She's right
But but bbclaurak is allowed to literally suck the prime ministers dick on national tv and that’s ok?
Correct. And mostly based off of 2 polls- both with just over 2000 people asked- off of the back of 6 days of negative headlines To demonstrate just how weak the data she used is, Johnson's personal rating has already gone up again to +7 in just one day Dreadful bias
The world gone nuts, media has become the Wild West,they need to be controlled.
Torygraph playing the integrity card is the funniest thing I’ve seen today...
It’s presenters like this who will be the downfall of the BBC.
She reported many fake claims on Trump
For goodness sake, the left hate them half the time, the right hate them the other half - so they must be doing something right.
It was a fact unlike stuff we read in newspapers owned by politically lead owners including the Telegraph.
It's not a statement of fact. If it was why hasn't Cummings been charged with a crime? It's not as if there hasn't been enough scrutiny. Also where was the same 'statement' for Ali, Kinnock, the clappers on Westminster Bridge...
No wonder the programme is plummeting. Kick her out.
She said it as fact, because it was a fact. There’s no two sides to every issue.
Truth hurts. As does the polling on the Daily Mail. Suck it up.
ScumMedia
SACK HER ... I WANT A REFUND FOR MY LICENCE FEE ASAP...
Resignation?
Someone hasn’t noticed the bias over the last few years have they?
It’s the BBC....what do you expect? review 2022 then 2027? A few OAP £157.50 legal cases to fight before then ref the charter.
It was the truth. Something that as a paper of record you should understand, but that’s long since gone.
It was an opinion piece. Nothing wrong with that, just don't dress it up as news reporting, BBC. Why is the public still funding this limping dinosaur of an organisation? It should stand on its own two feet, funded via an opt-in subscription model.
Facts dont care about your feelings. Or are you going to introduce 'alternative facts'?
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 which bit she said was not a fact?
She was stating a fact, I see nothing wrong
lol tories whinging about BBC impartiality
These problems arise when you hire political activists - lewis_goodall ?
State one lie in what she said. You can’t balance fact with lies and spin.
for conservatives being impartial means licking their boots
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