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Kay Burley off air for 6 months

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Andrew Founding member
JK08 posted:
sjhoward posted:
Interesting editorial decisions in that announcement. It’s hard to imagine either the BBC or Sky not reporting it as “breaking news” if, say, the BBC took Laura Kuenssberg off air for three months.

It feels more like a company statement being read out than news coverage - it perhaps lacks the distance that BBC News employs when reporting on BBC News.

I feel like a short introduction to the statement would have done the job.

"You may have seen some news about some of our Sky News colleagues over the past few days, well Sky has just released the following statement..." etc etc.

Yes it needed that, it didn’t sound right just reading the statement without saying it was a statement.

Suspended on full pay? Imagine what Kay and Beth’s reaction would have been if Dominic Cummings had been suspended, and then it turned out he was still on full pay. I’d guess they’d bring it up once or twice.
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Meridian AM
Inzamam apology to staff:


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Brekkie
sjhoward posted:
It feels more like a company statement being read out than news coverage - it perhaps lacks the distance that BBC News employs when reporting on BBC News.

Because that is exactly what it was. Would have been wrong to give it the Breaking News treatment.

Not surprised they're on full pay as it is such a grey area employment rights wise. Some punishment though, but clearly more about the image and practicality of them being on air analysing and question those about the rules.
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aaron_scotland
AlexS posted:



I'm sure there are plenty of people who would just love 6 months paid holiday with how this year is going.


Wow if thats true.... I feel slightly sick paying for Sky TV. That is no punishment
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Parker
'Has agreed to be off air'? So she could have refused. That is weak, very poor.
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valley
Parker posted:
'Has agreed to be off air'? So she could have refused. That is weak, very poor.

If she’d refused, I’m fairly sure she would be out the door.
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Brekkie
valley posted:
Parker posted:
'Has agreed to be off air'? So she could have refused. That is weak, very poor.

If she’d refused, I’m fairly sure she would be out the door.

But probably with her contract paid out anyhow.
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Parker
Brekkie posted:
valley posted:
Parker posted:
'Has agreed to be off air'? So she could have refused. That is weak, very poor.

If she’d refused, I’m fairly sure she would be out the door.

But probably with her contract paid out anyhow.

It really is a pathetic response to something so serious. If it had been the eeBb there would be all hell on.
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LondonViewer
BFGArmy posted:
Cusack posted:
BFGArmy posted:

Indeed it does seem like newsreaders are being held to a higher standard than the politicians who run the country (which is to say politicians should be held to a higher standard than they are).


Dominic Cummings of course was a civil servant rather than a politician.


Margaret Ferrier though was and still is a politician


Not sure why Margaret Ferrier is even getting a mention in the thread. What she did is not even comparable to this story.

What this lot did is of course happening every day in London, so I don’t personally think it’s that big of a deal. Totally undermines their holier than thou standard line of questioning though, so I guess Sky had no choice.
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Worzel
Does anyone know how the BBC News channel broke the story and who was on air at the time? Was it Simon McCoy?
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Matthew_Fieldhouse
Worzel posted:
Does anyone know how the BBC News channel broke the story and who was on air at the time? Was it Simon McCoy?

Nope, Ben Brown read the statement out as breaking news
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JCB
Andrew posted:
Brekkie posted:
Seems a hasty and hefty decision, but it makes a statement and that is the intention here.


It’s like when Alastair Stewart lost his job on Police Camera Action after he was done for drink driving


The same holier than thou Alastair Stewart who spends all day every day obnoxiously lecturing other journalists about rights and wrongs.

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