Channel 4 Snooze
The race for exclusives and scoops is of more interest to hacks and bloggers than it is to the readers and viewers. News distributors take great pride in being first with the scoop. Guido is no different in this respect from Channel 4 News, and boasting emails like this from newsrooms are not uncommon:
from: Laurent, Fiona <[]@itn.co.uk>
date: Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 7:12 PM~
subject: C4 NEWS EXCLSV: DEFENCE AIDE RESIGNS – ERIC JOYCE’S LETTER TO BROWN
Embargoed until 19.30 hrs on 3rd September 2009
*LEAD STORY* LEAD STORY* LEAD STORY
CREDIT CHANNEL 4 NEWS WITH ALL MATERIAL USED CHANNEL 4 NEWS EXCLUSIVE:
PARLIAMENTARY AIDE TO THE DEFENCE SECRETARY RESIGNS
Sure enough the lead story on C4 News at 7pm had been Eric Joyce resigning. Was it really an exclusive? Co-conspirators will note that at 6.27pm Guido reported a rumour that a PPS was resigning, just after that Guido publicly tweeted @EricJoyce to badger him to answer the phone – he hadn’t been answering his mobile for hours – (the Twitterati picked up the hint). At 6.46pm Guido named Eric Joyce after a co-conspirator emailed some corroborative information on the back of the 6.27 pm teaser.
Cathy Newman confirmed the story and lead with the contents of the resignation letter at 7.01 on C4 News, she apparently had got the story the night before. Guido heard the story late yesterday afternoon, as Cathy tweeted after her broadcast “So hard to keep a secret in Westminster. Somehow the mod got wind of our Eric Joyce scoop mid afternoon. Hmm.”
Cathy undoubtedly had the resignation letter first, nevertheless the first news source to put Joyce’s resignation into the public domain was this blog, as PoliticsHome’s “as it happens” newswire confirms. You snooze, you lose…
UPDATE : Remember Dizzy’s story which became a “C4 News Exclusive” the next day?
If Sir they Had Mr Medhi as apolitics corrispondent it shows they lack of judgement
I meant to add “Are you supprised”
Are you completely illiterate?
No Sir , I can read but spelling and typing are not up to scratch
“Cathy undoubtedly had the resignation letter first”
scathing stuff Mr guido
Also you Booze you lose..haha!
but with gin you sin.
So ‘firm’, – I hope the f*ckwit is a sitting target
‘Churnalist’ is about right!
They still haven’t learned anything about journalism since Fatty Florid McPoison’s demise, have they?
McBroon wasn’t in Elgin by any chance, roads and bridges damaged by floods.
I notice that that highly creative individual McNulty has been touring the BBC spouting off that Joyce is an eccentric and that we should also tune in to Mcbroon’s proposals for a strategic withdrawal.
(Creative as in almost fraudulent in use of expenses).
And Guido’s bestest mate Thuggy McNulty was described by Al-JaBeeBa this morning as ‘from the ‘government”. I thought he had resigned because of his expenses scandal, or is this like Florid McPoison’s ‘resignation’ just a transfer (to roaming attack-dog ambassador without portfolio in McNutt’ys case)?
So what happened to your recent anti-twitter stance?
This is where I get all my news/Views from now.
I have a kettle some potnoodles and a bucket.
Like to keep me finger on the pulse see.
People sometimes ask, “Why talk about women and the economic downturn? Surely the effect of the global economic downturn is something that affects men and women alike.”
Yes, the global economic downturn does affect both men and women – but it affects them in different ways. It is women that still do the lion’s share of caring for children and elderly relatives, because women are still the “managers of the family”. Women have different patterns of work from men – are more likely to work part time and last but not least because women still suffer pay discrimination at work. Scottish women are still paid 18% less than men. Women cannot lift heavy weights.
Women’s work is even more important than it was 10 years ago. We make up 47% of the total workforce at this time. Women’s jobs are important. For just over 20% of all couples, women’s pay contribute over 50% of family incomes
Women’s jobs are more important to women themselves. Women’s work is more important now than it used to be in every sector of the economy. And women’s work is vital for public services – they just wouldn’t work without women. In the public sector, 72% of the workforce is women.
Women’s work is particularly important for children in one parent families so that children are not brought up in households where no one ever goes out to work. This is a point strongly highlighted by the one parent family campaigns supported by JK Rowling.
Your new here arent you ?
I can visualise Hildegard Hinxey – dungareees, lightly moustached, cropped hair, sensible shoes and a photo of Hattie Harman kept by the bed for bean-flicking purposes.
Is ‘bean-flicking’ often done with the tongue, rather like the French ‘lawn-eater’?
Just curious!
IMHO women have the most important profession, that of providing us with the next generation.
end of…..
Hinxey, My long developed deductive powers suggest to me that your married name is Hardwidge. Why don’t you go and join him?
“in the public sector, 72% of the workforce is women”
Don’t you see that as a problem, woman? Women working has contributed more to the decline in our nation’s prospects than any other factor in the last three decades.
A woman’s place is in the home, bringing up her children properly and looking after her breadwinner husband. When she neglects this duty for the sake of uppityness and her selfish desires for a ‘career’, the morals and behaviour of her children are put in peril, and her husband is emasculated.
So 72% of the non-jobs in the ‘public sector’ are not just non-jobs, but are actively contributing to the moral decline of our once great nation, by pandering to the desires of bra-burning harridans like you.
I hope you’re proud of yourself.
Paragnostic – It’s the top of page 3 of this link you want. In fact, why not read it all? A baroque mistresspiece.
http://www.harrietharman.org/uploads/abad41c6-2e26-2f94-2912-f7267a02534a.doc
Fuck – you’re right.
I thought it was a piece of satire, but in the world of New Labour satire is indistinguishable from the babblings of the idiocracy.
Still, I meant every word of my response, and would gladly tell Harman that to her face if I could restrain myself from punching her for long enough. ;o)
In the public sector, 72% of the workforce is women.
By your own leftard standard of reasoning, that’s proof of ‘discrimination’ against men right there.
On the other hand, I can see why people with a psychological need to live at someone else’s expense would be attracted to the parasite sector.
“People sometimes ask, ‘Why talk about women and the economic downturn? Surely the effect of the global economic downturn is something that affects men and women alike’”.
I hadn’t thought about this until you said it. But it’s true isn’t it? You can’t hardly set foot outside the house without someone saying, “Why talk about women and the economic downturn?……….. “. Bus drivers, supermarket check-out staff, bar staff, friends, relatives, they’re all at it; wondering about women and the economic downturn.
Silly cow (I presume). Have you by any chance had cut and paste lessons from a Charles Hardtodger?
In other news, away from twittering, twats and bitch slaps the incineration of one hundred Afghanis by a German called in airstrike by American warplanes in Kundus this morning will cause revulsion and outrage amongst ordinary Germans and demands for the immediate withdrawal of the German supposed rebuilding mission in Afghanistan. Beyond any rubbish about British MPs resigning to save their seats the loss of the German contigent in Afghanistan will have seismic effect and finally expose the ISAF NATO ‘coalition of the willing’ deployment in the ‘theatre’ of Afghanistan/Pakistan for the US/UK war of agression and genocide that it actually is, fought to protect drug profits, dictators and the encirclement of Iran and the coming attack on that country.
EXCLUSIVE: I got piss wet through this morning riding in to work, as I have every day this week, and now I have a stinking cold.
I know Channel 4 won’t be interested in this, but I imagine the BBC could do a good ten minutes on it.
Ok smarty pants, if woman do the lion share of childrearing isn’t their fault then that Men are such Arseholes.
I think it is important to understand that Labour are taking all the action that they can to stabilise the economy and put it on a strong footing for the future – but that there is real help for families – now.
Having doubled yes doubled child benefit over the last 10 years, Labour have again increased it so that its gone up from £18.80 a week for the oldest child to £20 a week now not to mention increasing child tax credit.
It is high time to get the me ssage across to employers loud and clear that they cannot make part-timers redundant first; that they can’t make women on maternity leave redundant first and that they have to treat everyone fairly.
To ensure that women get help when they need it and know where to go for help Labour have published and are distributing the booklet Real Help Now for Women.
And may I just say I have just one question to put to those who sneer at initiatives like this:
What about the children?
But we cannot tackle what is a global financial crisis in any one country. We need international action. That is precisely why the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, is going to insist on a round-table discussion of women in the workplace during the recession at the all-important G20 summit this week.
Are you related to Harman pride ?
Jesus Christ!!
As another poster here has so adroitly pointed out, this is just Hardwidge under a female nom de plume.
You are Charles_E_Hardwidge and I claim my £5
Get away, this is a spoof.
Hildegard Hinxey #21 – YOU are Mrs Charles Hardwidge (spell?) or Charles himself after a sex change op and I claim my £5.
If Gordon wants a round table with some women – tell him I, for one, am busy for the rest of my life as far as he’s concerned – looser and deluded psychpath that he is.
It’s called ‘order out of chaos’ Hildegard. You’ve been ‘had’ and Gordy and pals have been rumbled.
I notice that HH had to remind us of the name of the Prime Minister
You seem to be expecting a journalist (and a political journalist at that) to tell the truth.
Like many politicians, many journalists are only working for themselves and do not chose to break the real stories we are interested in because it will damage their access to the thundering herd stories.
Who really cares whether it was 18:46, 19:01, the story was coming out anyway.
An exclusive would be Balls to take over deputy leadership at the party conference as Brown steps down due to ill health or Cameron to deselect Bercow and Duncan
I’m so sorry, she’s from Barcelona.
Gah, wrong thread!
Of course sharp-eyed readers (unlikely I know but still) will note that he premise of your argument is that “Joyce rumoured to be resigning” and “Joyce resigns” are the same story. For those who see no difference there’s guido. For everyone else, there’s the news.
I don’t know about anyone else, but I really get off on Cathy Newman. My pathetic and slightly creepy dreams were shattered by her getting pregnant. Glad she’s back.
Too right, Guido: put these vulturous media whores back in their box.
Parasites on someone’s back; or simply jumping someone else’s train?
Either way it was a Guido exclusive.
Pat yourself on the back Guido.
Of course scoops are my domain par excellence-but if anybody scoops my personal life (if you ken whit a mean) they’d better be prepared for a wee bit haughmagandie