Alastair Stewart to leave ITV News.

Exactly. It was such an avoidable situation. Even if no offense was meant, the whole exchange was beneath the dignity of someone who was a key public face of the serious-minded, impartial ITV News brand. Stewart is not a rent-an-outrage entertainer like Piers Morgan; that's why he was ultimately held to a higher standard (just as any serious journalist would be).

Always thought he was silly and pompous and full of himself... since 1987!!! As a kid - when you like everybody - he was nice to have as part of the "News at Ten" furniture and other bulletins, but later it was obvious he was a bit of a pain.

Except for his conviction for drink driving?

He was still doing the lunchtime news on weekdays, and occasionally filling in for Tom on News At Ten.

its interesting that I've not seen a single person he worked with of any ethnicity say a bad word about him since this news broke and the general reaction from most people maybe as high as 95% is positive towards him. They discussed it on GMB during the papers and not one of the 6 of them thought he should have gone. They then had a second discussion at the end of GMB with a black woman and a black man. The Woman thought it was racist and the man said he had done nothing wrong

GMB? Wow. How did Piers handle that? He himself was rather nasty to Alastair on Twitter a few months back, and then actually blocked him! Mind you, Piers blocks anyone and everyone.

Must have been an awkward discussion for him this morning.

Obviously, man, he was not a tyrant or something. I wasn’t saying that. And who would come on air and crap on him? (and i mean a low-level git lol.) However - the tweet speaks for itself, and it backs up exactly what I said. It’s pretty evident he’s a bit of a pompous dude. And a very good evening.. to you. 🤣


edit: sorry to his fans, not trying to be wildly offensive. just i thought he was a bit of a pompous old thing and not a fan of his style (and he came across to me as self-aggrandizing). Not against posh accents per se - Sandy Gall was my favourite.. and he had the common touch.

It was Ben, Susannah and Kate this morning.

I am very saddened by what has happened. Alastair Stewart is the best presenter of the modern age and a professional to a tee. The same gravitas as the late Sir Alastair Burnett.

Alastair has said he has done wrong but I think it has been taken out of perspective. Lily many presenters he always says all views are his own.

If he has breached any rules which I personally think he hasn’t; a warning or discussion on conduct is all that was needed.

To suddenly end 40 years of high quality journalism and presenting whether mutually or sacked is completely wrong.

Lang people in all walks of life and that includes politicians have done worse and still kept their roles or in some cases, lost their jobs but then made a comeback.

I hope what is ITN and ITV’s loss will be another broadcasters gain.

And now Ranvir Singh is being attacked for her views on the matter.

We are living in a world gone mad!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7946505/ITVs-Ranvir-Singh-attacked-Twitter-defending-Alastair-Stewart.html?fbclid=IwAR1iR_FOuGvT9bz5upWtC5w0ZJ1Oyhw7S6T0qWhaA9iaPDwZj2l6iBMdH7o

Oof... internal moves underway at ITN to pressure bosses into reinstating Alastair Stewart

— Staff signing petition

— Senior ITN source: “Anna Mallett and her wingman Chris Shaw must come out and explain why they have hung him out for a public shaming. It is a total disgrace.“

— Alex Wickham (@alexwickham) January 30, 2020

I bet BBC News executives are secretly thanking ITV News to the hills for this enormous unfortunate diversion from their announcement yesterday. Diverted almost all the media hacks away from them in a second.

As I said here , Tweets bring out the stupidity in people, regardless of whether its the public or esteemed news broadcasters.

Nobody's perfect, and nowhere demonstrates it as well as Twitter. Twitter is sort of like the fuel that feeds the fire.