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Alastair Stewart to leave ITV News.

(January 2020)

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Ash101
BM11 posted:




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Mouseboy33
Have fun in retirement Stewie.
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DVB Cornwall
Seems the tabloids are having a field day. I'm not going to post them here, and I sincerely hope others don't either.
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KolonelKlink
WW Update posted:
BM11 posted:

ITV dragged into the culture war.


Culture war? I think you're being overly dramatic.


Tell that to the Spectator, who've declared it a test case of our times:

https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2020/01/in-defence-of-alastair-stewart/
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BM11
KolonelKlink posted:
WW Update posted:
BM11 posted:

ITV dragged into the culture war.


Culture war? I think you're being overly dramatic.


Tell that to the Spectator, who've declared it a test case of our times:

https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2020/01/in-defence-of-alastair-stewart/

It was very predictable.
Next up is people with a public profile vowing to boycot ITV until he is reinstated.
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alexjac0788
WW Update posted:
ginnyfan posted:
Sad and annoying. The person he tweeted is a pathetic bully for abusing the racial PC card like that.


Oh, come on. He drew attention to a problematic tweet that a professional anchor should not have posted. His bosses -- not the person making the compliant -- looked at the evidence and decided to terminate Stewart's employment. As for "political correctness," the obsession over "PC culture" tends to come from people who have racist attitudes but who resent the fact that sharing those attitudes often has consequences in polite society.


Absolute rubbish! The complainant has put 2 and 2 together and got 5. This is one of the clearest examples of today's cancel culture; one person complains and the easiest option is taken, as opposed to standing by your employee.
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Jon
WW Update posted:
ginnyfan posted:
Sad and annoying. The person he tweeted is a pathetic bully for abusing the racial PC card like that.


Oh, come on. He drew attention to a problematic tweet that a professional anchor should not have posted. His bosses -- not the person making the compliant -- looked at the evidence and decided to terminate Stewart's employment. As for "political correctness," the obsession over "PC culture" tends to come from people who have racist attitudes but who resent the fact that sharing those attitudes often has consequences in polite society.

I'd agree with you last point in a lot of cases. However I do not believe he would have made that Tweet if race had been on his mind. I think in this case it's a situation of them being afraid of looking like they're not doing the right thing. I think the broadcaster should be able to make a judgement based on what the intent was, and I don’t think there was any racist intent here and he’s being punished based on the fact race was far from his mind.
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Night Thoughts
It's very sad. Twitter can make fools of even the sharpest, most intelligent people. A lot of people in broadcasting need to reassess their relationship with it. (A lot of people, full stop, need to reassess their relationship with it.)

If you're someone with a 40-year career at the top of television, what on earth are you doing getting into a public row with someone nobody's heard of? And then doing it in such a way that causes needless (if accidental) offence to that person?

It's just very sad to see a career end like this.
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Jonwo
WW Update posted:

Culture war? I think you're being overly dramatic.


It's BM11, overdramatic is an understatement.
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