Furious Political Editor Of Murdoch's Sky News Totally Flips Out & Almost Slaps Labour's Spin Doctor

[Turborama]

Run time: 05:12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODVEI_7Dkas   Posted on YouTube: May 11, 2010 By YouTube Member: BNSNews Views on YouTube: 1   Posted on DU: May 11, 2010 By DU Member: Turborama Views on DU: 2179

 
It gradually builds up until 3:24 when he totally loses it and everything goes downhill very quickly.

Important to remember when watching this that political reporters on British TV are legally required to be impartial. The man on the left is not just a reporter, he's actually Sky's political editor.

Full transcript with a longer version embedded: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/7708076/Alastair-Campbell-and-Adam-Boulton-TV-row-full-transcript.html

The Guardian on this 'spat' (with 400 comments): http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2010/may/10/adam-boulton-alastair-campbell

Daily Mail's version of what went on (with 534 comments): http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1276591/Alastair-Campbell-Sky-News-presenter-Adam-Boulton-come-blows-live-TV-bitter-row-Browns-legacy.html

Looks like some of Sky's reporters are getting really frustrated and mad because a Cameron win would mean they could have free reign to become Fox News UK. Cameron has said he wants to neuter http://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv/">Ofcom and http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/fourth-estate/2009/09/cameron-murdoch-bbc">the BBC would be in serious peril, too.

The Independent: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/has-cameron-done-a-deal-with-murdoch-1819010.html">Has Cameron done a deal with Murdoch?

BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/2010/03/ofcom_v_sky_the_epic_business.html">Ofcom v Sky: The epic business battle of 2010

New Satetsman: http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/fourth-estate/2009/09/cameron-murdoch-bbc">A Cameron-Murdoch alliance could devastate the BBC

This confrontation has made it to his Wikipedia biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Boulton

Related story about Boulton's impartiality...

Leaders' debate: nearly 700 complain to Ofcom over treatment of Nick Clegg
Some viewers accuse Sky News host Adam Boulton of 'heckling' Liberal Democrat leader, while others attack BSkyB 'bias'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/apr/28/leaders-debate-complaints

[Democat]

1. Fox News of Britain crying because the Tories didn't win!

Too bad for them. Their party almost pulled it off, but not quite.

[dipsydoodle]

4. Campbell can spin it however he likes

nothing changes the fact that Labour lost 25% of their seats and if that's not a condemnation then I don't know what is. That interview was done just after Mandelson , aided and abetted no doubt by Campbell, must've told Brown to announce leaving his post. Mandelson and Brown had crept out of the backdoor of Downing Street together ealier in the afternoon. This is getting like Julius Ceasar.

Comparisons of Sky with Fox are odious. They simply share the same ownership. Sky's reporting doesn't really differ from the BBC or ITV news channels. Campbell was just trying to be a smartarse as usual.

[Joe Chi Minh]

6. The Tories are so hated (progressives got 2/3 of the vote), it seems inconceivable that

Clegg could get the necessary approval from his party officials, even at the first stage, for his party to do a deal with them.
But it's great fun hearing our overtly bigoted and perjurious media talking-heads and their political idols constantly whining on the box like pre-school children!

[Turborama]

16. I haven't compared Sky News with Faux

I have been noting on how some of its journalists have been behaving lately and the danger of Cameron allowing Murdoch to turn Sky News into Fox News UK or even create a new channel with that name.

However, since the election the two Sky reporters I've been mentioning, Boulton and Burley, have been noticeably pushing for a Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition. They are not behaving as unbiased news reporters, they are constantly sharing/pushing an obvious opinion/agenda and sometimes arguing vociferously for it. Here's Boulton giving Ben Bradshaw the same sort of treatment he gave Campbell later that evening: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NWAkxKQLQs


To be honest, I am still torn. I'm starting to think that the Liberal Democrats might be better off just letting the Tories have a minority government. However, that would mean Cameron can call for a new election which only the Tories can afford to run. The Labour thing is getting too messy; the negotiations with unelected Labour officials, the potential coalition with an unknown PM with an unknown manifesto etc etc. Additionally, a lot of Labour politicians are now saying they should just magnanimously accept defeat. Plus, I just can't see Liberal Democrat voters supporting them after they have got into bed with the Tories.

Given all that, it's extremely difficult to work out what's best for the country and I would hate to be in Nick Clegg's shoes right now.

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[sasquuatch55]

11. How boorish.

nt

[Joe Chi Minh]

13. But that's the Tories for you.

[Joe Chi Minh]

2. You bet! But not on Sky Sports (bookie). Well, OK, since it's a win.

[Joe Chi Minh]

3. Here's what I posted to the YouTube video page, but kept getting an

'Error. Try again' message.

In a narrow sense, which is thoroughly misleading, because irrelevant, the Tories beat NuLab(c), in the election. It was a ludicrously partial Pryrrhic victory,
since in that narrow sense, that 'election' is only part of the election process as a whole, in which effectively (because constitutionally) , the Tories were rejected, in favour of Brown staying on as PM until a majority government could be formed.

Of course, technically, the Tories (der. 'robbers') could still win, but the Lib-Dem Party are not in favour of the lion lying down with the lamb, so it is surely entirely a notional possibility. You lost, big-time. Get over it!

[Go2Peace]

5. Everyone these days wants to control "the message" to try and manipulate voters.

We even have our own spin brigade on DU. Every movement needs a spokesman, but something terrible has happened and we have crossed the line in our political discourse into something much less positive.

Spin weakens democracy.

[Joe Chi Minh]

7. Indeed, the public did endorse Brown - don't let the Tory's media hirelings say differently -

to the exent that they wanted him to remain in charge, until a majority government could be obtained. They certainly didn't endorse Cameron to that extent, or he'd be in no 10.

He doesn't even have a plausible prospect of getting there, at least with a majority government.

[dipsydoodle]

8. public did endorse Brown ?

In your dreams. As I said it earlier it was a condemnation. Don't work for Campbell by chance do you? :sarcasm:

[Joe Chi Minh]

9. Who's in no 10? Is it constitutionally correct? You need a reality check, like

your pals.

[dipsydoodle]

10. Yes

It is constitutionally correct and remains so until someone approaches the Queen to form a new government. Not sure where you are but if you're english I you really should already have known that.

[Joe Chi Minh]

12. Ha. Ha. It's you who evidently didn't. My question must have given you a much-needed

clue.

[dipsydoodle]

14. It's been so widely discussed in the news

since the outcome of the election I'd have been amazed if anyone didn't know that Brown has the right to stay insitu for the time being given he remains at present our Prime Minister.

Btw - just now some comedian off camera outside Downing Street was playing the theme tune from the Godfather on a trumpet. :rofl:

[Joe Chi Minh]

15. So why are you all whingeing about Brown's remaining as PM until a new

Government can be formed? Cognitive dissonance of a major order by the sound of it.


Did you hear the right-wing, knuckle-drgging, media harridan screaming at Prescott, while he was being interviewed. Glad he told her to shut up. To shut her 'cake-hole' would have been better.

I suspected you didn't live North of Watford. If you make it throught the Pearly Gates, I can only assume it will be for that great signature. Would you be a lawyer by any chance?

[dipsydoodle]

17. When have I commented on Brown

remaining where he is until matters are resolved ? Have you misread something. The only comment of which I'm aware was expressing annoyance at Mandlebum and Campbell interfering.

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[Joe Chi Minh]

19. I was talking about you people generally; not you, specifically, in this case. Your tribe,

generally.