The James MacTaggart Lecture 2022: Emily Maitlis | Edinburgh TV Festival 2022

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  @CommunistRSA · 4 years ago (edited)

  Emily Maitlis speech start at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0dRBtSAvLM&amp;t=601">10:01</a>

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  @garyt123 · 4 years ago

  Assuming democracy, in the UK, and those in the rest of the developed world, actually survives the coming months/years, this speech will become a historic reference for journalists for decades, possibly centuries. Let&apos;s hope those present, and their companies, begin to push-back on the populist movement&apos;s, exposing their lies and strategies. The thought of replacing Johnson with Truss or Sunak is, frankly, terrifying. Not because they are <i>worse</i> (they aren&apos;t) but because they would just be a continuation of the downward spiral the country has been on since Cameron took &quot;control&quot;. More than ever we need the journalists to take back control of the news from the politicians.

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  @96qwer · 4 years ago

  well said Emily To put into context, The BBC &nbsp;is currently headed by a former Conservative councillor, regulated by a Conservative Peer, chaired by a Conservative Party donor, and whose CEO is the partner of the Conservative Director of Communications. &nbsp;Robbie Gibb was in charge of the BBC Political output during the time of Referendum and is well known as a hard Brexiteer. &nbsp;He is one of the people who was involved in the set up of GB News. &nbsp;The BBC goes well out of its way to avoid any mentions of Brexit as being a contributing factor to the issues we are experiencing.

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  @spammodump · 10 months ago

  Well this lecture has new context given what&apos;s gone on at the BBC last week.

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  @linmorell1813 · 4 years ago

  Thank goodness someone in the media has spoken up. Boiling the frog is right. This talk is so refreshing in its clarity of where our media have moved to and the lack of trust it has provoked.

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  @neurohydraulics8713 · 3 years ago

  Says it directly, the editor in chief tells his journos &quot; do not normalise this moment&quot;.<br>The end of the BBC as a credible journalist organisation.

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  @DavidDavid-gc9rm · 4 years ago

  &quot;Let&apos;s not be bias but do not question murderers either&quot;.

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  @David-gu8mx · 4 years ago

  Nigel Farage was never off the BBC , during Brexit coverage, for the reasons highlighted in this

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  @justanotherfella4585 · 4 years ago

  Start time: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0dRBtSAvLM&amp;t=598">9:58</a>

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  @ekownelson3997 · 4 years ago

  Beautifully written, cogently argued and well delivered! Well done, Emily Maitlis!

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  @bellinterlab8139 · 3 years ago

  Shadow-banned from commenting on this, which perfectly sums up her arguments....

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  @jamesmcdonald8534 · 4 years ago

  The greatest moral principle of journalism is to serve every democratic value.

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