[Abernathy]

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[Samanfur]

I wonder what stories Panorama are currently working on that somebody wanted closing down? Perhaps they have been doing some digging into Nigel Farage or Richard Tice. Or may be an investigation into the IDF.

According to one of the articles I read this morning, that's exactly what the same production team was working on next: a documentary on Farage.

[Boiler]

Yes, I saw that too.

[Tubby Isaacs]

The BBC seems to be very much there, with a not very good DG and head of news gone. Why all this "the BBC's been destroyed" stuff?

[Tubby Isaacs]

There's no clear candidate for DG.

Does Rory Stewart fancy it? Badenoch and Jenrick slagging off one of their own as a Labour plant would be most amusing.

That's what they did with Chris Patten.

[Abernathy]

Perhaps they should appoint Alastair Campbell.

[satnav]

I saw a number of post om social media last week suggesting thar Farage was about to stand down as leader of Reform which would have been remarkable for a party leader who is leading in all the pools. But instead of standing down he has been leading the charge against the BBC. Hopefully if a programme has been made about Farage someone will have the decency to leak it.

[Oboogie]

Maybe Farage fancies being DG himself?

[Boiler]

Maybe Farage fancies being DG himself?

A man who boasts of having no cultural hinterlands as DG?

Yeah, these days that'd make perfect sense.

[Boiler]

A billion dollar lawsuit incoming from Donny.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... gal-action

[Youngian]

Let him sue the BBC in an English court with an English jury. Democracy on trial and all that. If Trump lost and the judge ordered him to pay costs, how much would he stump up?
Murdoch's been aiming his fire power at the BBC for 50 years but it still stands. Fuck Trump.

[Abernathy]

Can something that the plaintiff has proveably actually said and been recorded as having said be libel?

Meanwhile, I knew it was all this cunt’s fault.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Let him sue the BBC in an English court with an English jury. Democracy on trial and all that. If Trump lost and the judge ordered him to pay costs, how much would he stump up?
Murdoch's been aiming his fire power at the BBC for 50 years but it still stands. Fuck Trump.

He's likely to sue in Florida.

[Boiler]

Can something that the plaintiff has proveably actually said and been recorded as having said be libel?

"Libel refers to a permanent defamatory statement that lowers a person's reputation in the eyes of right-thinking members of society. It involves publishing an untrue statement that negatively affects someone's reputation, and the statement must be understood as such by an ordinary person."

So does the edited version as transmitted by the BBC meet that test?

[soulboy]

Did you think the man was a cunt?

Do you still think the man is a cunt?

Case dismissed.

Because he clearly is, and always has been, a cunt.

[Youngian]

Let him sue the BBC in an English court with an English jury. Democracy on trial and all that. If Trump lost and the judge ordered him to pay costs, how much would he stump up?
Murdoch's been aiming his fire power at the BBC for 50 years but it still stands. Fuck Trump.

He's likely to sue in Florida.

You need a far higher burden of proof for libel in a US court. Do they have juries in civil libel cases?

Trump's like Galloway though threatening to unleash lawyers every other day. But rarely does.

[Tubby Isaacs]

I think he's likely to on this occasion. It won't cost him anything. He'll just get the money by selling a pardon, like he is now.

Massive nuisance to the BBC, whatever the verdict.

[Bones McCoy]

To deploy the Rightbot's defence:

The BBC haven't broken any laws.
They've just echoed what a lot of people were thinking.

What the BBC certainly haven't done is rape a load of trafficked teens on a private Island.

Something else they haven't done is have the balls to face down the gossipy innuendo that the right have been firing at them.

[Tubby Isaacs]

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[Tubby Isaacs]

Gibb shouldn't have been appointed, but sacking him isn't really consistent with "no political interference". As Ed knows very well.

I don't get why one member of the board is said to have so much power. There are 6 appointments coming up in the next year. Despite the contention of Bluesky that Lisa Nandy's lazy and not very bright, it is actually possible that she's noticed this and is thinking of candidates, with no political baggage, who could turn help turn the BBC around.