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Mail names BBC NI Director as the weak link in latest crisis…

Mick Fealty on November 12, 2012, 11:54 am | Readers 169

Suddenly the vast and inscrutable machine of the BBC is under intense investigation, and the hunt is on for whomever it was at Director level that signed off on the Newsnight. The Daily Mail believes it has found the weak link in the chain. The person they now claim was responsible for sign off at the highest level was the Director of BBC NI, Peter Johnston. Johnson, whose core competence is audience development, found himself with executive responsibilities for national …

Jeremy Paxman: “This is an ex-email”

Pete Baker on February 2, 2011, 5:25 pm | Readers 6

BBC Newsnight’s Jeremy Paxman has had fun signing off on the last ever Newsnight daily email. Here is the text Good morning. And good afternoon. Or possibly, good evening. Welcome to positively the last Newsnight daily email. The time has come to put this exercise in fatuousness out of its misery. It gives me no pleasure to say that it should have happened years ago. Actually, I lie. There is more joy in heaven, etc, etc. The reason for killing …

Euro debts: “Purge the rottenness out of the system” – Hugh Hendry channels Andrew Mellon

Mack on May 28, 2010, 12:18 pm | Readers 5

An interesting discussion on the problem of, and solutions to, sovereign debt default on Newsnight. Everyone’s favourite, um, “clinker-bag” is back, this time being rude to Columbia University’s Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Gillian Tett a journalist at the Financial Times also in attendance. Kent Brockman, from the Simpsons said it best in Homer the Vigilante. Kent Brockman reports on the situation. Kent: Hordes of panicky people seem to be evacuating the town for some unknown reason. Professor, without knowing precisely what …