Vine on Paxman reveals the void that is their 'journalism'...
Posted by Mark Doran on April 14, 2025, 1:21 pm
"Vine expressed admiration for Paxman, remarking on the amount of hard work he put into his Newsnight role.
"“Somebody once said to me that Paxman would sometimes spend the whole day thinking up one question. For example, the German ambassador in 1989, where he said, ‘Well, it’s not been a very good century, has it?’” Vine recalled. “I realised that he operated very much like the goal scorer who is a bit inert on the pitch for 80 minutes and then scores the goal of the season.”"
-- See? Not the slightest fucking hint that either of them knows what actual journalism would be and do in that situation.
Paxman, now ravaged by Parkinson's, says that the disease “makes you wish you hadn’t been born”. Well, I got there first: after years watching his power-serving anti-journalism being leveraged to the maximum amount possible, I have already spent decades wishing that the odious little puke had never been born.
Despised Paxman and his undeserved reputation. Here's his style of hackery...a horrible watch, especially with the war criminal, Lammy, chiming in at the end.
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Re: Vine on Paxman reveals the void that is their 'journalism'...
What a disgusting little shit Paxman was. Political-sounding theatrics to amuse a class so insulated against reality that politics is just a word game for them.
M.
Re: Vine on Paxman reveals the void that is their 'journalism'...
As for Oona King, the ousted MP Paxman is touting here, I remember her on Question Time way back in 2002, I think. There was some question on Israel and the UK supplying arms to the vicious little settler state and she said that the UK did not. However, after being pushed, she went on to say "we" did supply some components for some fekking fighter jet or something. This "supplying components but not full weapons" to the lunatic state has become the last fig leaf of the war criminal.
Paxman's pledge of fealty to Colin Powell's integrity, 2009...
As Media Lens noted recently on Twitter: ‘If you think Newsnight failed badly now, compare with anchor Jeremy Paxman’s 2009 confession on Iraq’: namely, that he and his media colleagues were ‘hoodwinked’ by propaganda about Iraq. Paxman made these extraordinary comments:
‘As far as I personally was concerned, there came a point with the presentation of the so-called evidence, with the moment when Colin Powell sat down at the UN General Assembly and unveiled what he said was cast-iron evidence of things like mobile, biological weapon facilities and the like…
‘When I saw all of that, I thought, well, “We know that Colin Powell is an intelligent, thoughtful man, and a sceptical man. If he believes all this to be the case, then, you know, he’s seen the evidence; I haven’t.”’
In other words, BBC journalism ended where serious journalism, and simple common sense, begins.
on April 14, 2025, 1:21 pm