I was delighted to hear the news this afternoon that Stephanie Flanders is leaving the BBC for her natural spiritual home at JP Morgan.
As I tweeted:
I also retweeted this from Ian Fraser, a man I hold in high regard:
I think Ian summarised the situation rather well.
No doubt the rewards will be very good.
Just so long as she avoids liability for any of JP Morgan's many misdemeanours.
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i harboured the notion that she might have been above all that – alas, not the case -perhaps I was a bit dewey-eyed about this English rose?! No loss, in my view, as the BBC has long ceased lifting up the dustbin lids of the finance world. She’ll be happy in Blair’s company!
If you want decent questions asking you have to go to RT or Al Jazeera or other sites.
i harboured the notion that she might have been above all that – alas, not the case -perhaps I was a bit dewey-eyed about this English rose?! No loss, in my view, as the BBC has long ceased lifting up the dustbin lids of the finance world. She’ll be happy in Blair’s company!
If you want decent questions asking you have to go to RT or Al Jazeera or other sites.
Pleased also – this was the woman who at the height of the UKIP/ Tory EU-skeptics debate last year claimed that a UK EU ‘exit’ would I recall have little economic effect. Which of course left many people here both national and international businesses, car manufacturers, leading directors , many UK employees, the city industries , unions and economists picking themselves off the floor at the thought of a little isolated England. Her style was to be simplistic and to generally underplay what have been some of the most serious economic changes we have seen since the 1930s.
Richard. Have you also noticed that Paul Mason is now with C4 News. He’s done two features this week. I think his title is Culture and Digital correspondent, which I found a bit odd, but at the moment – or as of yesterday, andyway – he’s not listed as a member of the team
I promise you – Paul is very definitely there
He has very broad editorial freedom as I understand it
Thanks for confiming, Richard. That explains why the second of his reports this week had very little to do with either culture or digital 🙂
Some times all people want is a change. Nothing more, nothing to be read into it at all.
Maybe
Maybe not
Paul mason didn’t go to Deutsche
Your second sentence contradicts your first. You can’t say ‘sometimes’ and derive an absolute term from it which is then emphasized by ‘at all’.
Currently studying rhetoric…
Having watched Paul Mason sitting beside Allegra Stratton and looking decidedly uncomfortable on many occasions, and with the arrival of a new editor Ian Katz, I think he jumped as soon as he could. Newsnight seems to have taken a turn for the worst. If Channel 4 were to introduce a late night news programme in competition with Newsnight, it might be the end for the latter.
Great idea
Agreed…paxman has become a caricature of himself. Once these people become media ‘legends’ they need to be put out to graze, he clearly feels he’s above it all and is condescendingly glib and world weary.