Roy Greenslade has resigned as honorary visiting fellow at the Journalism school at City University over his support for the IRA’s terror campaign. In 2014 Guido reported that:
Roy Greenslade stood surety for IRA bomb suspect John Downey it emerged during the failed prosecution of Downey at the Old Bailey in London. Greenslade, the Guardian’s media commentator and a journalism professor at London’s City University, owns a home near Downey’s in Donegal. The Old Bailey was told, according to a report in the Irish Independent, that Greenslade gets his oysters from Downey’s farm.
Lt Anthony Daly, 23, Cpl Roy Bright, 36, L Cpl Jeffrey Young, 19, and Trooper Simon Tipper, also 19, all of the Blues and Royals, died in the blast along with seven of the regiment’s horses. Two hours after the Hyde Park blast, an IRA bomb killed seven Army bandsmen in nearby Regent’s Park.
Guido’s not sure why when it has long been known that Greenslade’s illustrious career in journalism included writing for An Phoblacht, Sinn Fein’s pro-IRA propaganda sheet, it has forced his resignation today. Students, of all people, should be exposed to arguments from people they disagree with, including lecturers. Cancel culture is closing the minds of students.
“Are you rich enough to bid for a City AM internship?” sneers Roy Greenslade at Media Guardian this morning, reporting that the business freesheet is auctioning off work experience to the highest bidder. “Open to all who have plenty of capital,” sniffs the Guardian. Bravely.
It’s an odd thing to get upset about since City AM’s initiative is for charity. The money raised is being given to Maggie’s cancer centres, which offer support to cancer victims. Even odder that Greenslade would attack newspapers charging for work experience, given just last year the Guardian charged £600 for a summer work experience placement. The difference? City AM are giving the money to charity, the Guardian kept the cash for themselves…
You can bid for the City AM work experience here. Money goes to Maggie’s.
Roy Greenslade of the loss-making Guardian keeping Facebookisation in perspective…
“The Facebookisation of news has the potential to destabilise democracy by, first, controlling what we read and, second, by destroying the outlets that provide that material.”
WHITTINGDALE: "Get out of the way" OR "conspiracy theory": Greenslade (media prof) V Cathcart (Hacked Off)#Newsnight https://t.co/8o7lX5Q23P
— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) April 12, 2016
The Guardian’s Roy Greenslade, a man unlikely to be part of a right-wing media plot to protect a Tory Cabinet minister, dismisses as “conspiracy theory” Hacked Off’s wild claims that the press covered up the Whittingdale story. The pro-Leveson brigade scream intrusion when tabloids reveal married MPs’ affairs, then cry conspiracy when they decide not to write about a single man and his lover. Whitto will be embarrassed by the revelations but he was a single man in a consensual relationship who has done nothing wrong. Brian Cathcart and Hacked Off have hilariously jumped the shark live on TV…
One man alone had the inside track on mounting rumours earlier in the week that the FT might be sold.
Here is Media Guardian’s eminent and well-informed Roy Greenslade on Monday:
“Pearson to sell the Financial Times? I really don’t think so… How many times down the years have I read that rumour? And how many times must I dismiss it as speculative nonsense?”
Three days later…
Statement from Pearson: confirmed "advanced discussions" regarding sale of Financial Times pic.twitter.com/eCdtJUR2QA
— Andrew Clark (@clarkaw) July 23, 2015
There’s a fine line between being contrarian and printing b***ocks.
“Tory press ignores, or underplays, polls putting Labour ahead” screams Roy Greenslade over at Media Guardian today:
“Labour’s positive poll ratings get precious little coverage in the Tory press. It must have been a day for the blue newspapers to bury bad news.”
Lest we forget the Guardian conveniently left off of the ComRes and YouGov polls that showed the Tories ahead off of their splash today, because it did not fit their narrative…
