Campbell vs Boulton

[Bayern Bru]

Adam Boulton and Alistair Campbell nearly coming to blows about Brown's resignation...

YouTube - Adam Boulton Lashes Out on Alastair Campbell - Sky News (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csYiFeWGKZU)

:take that

[Beefster]

Boulton made a bit of a tit of himself.

[Bayern Bru]

Boulton made a bit of a tit of himself.

Exactly my thoughts. Reminded me of that BBC journalist who was interviewing someone about Scientology and ended up screaming at the boy he was interviewing.

[Danderhall Hibs]

Someone on the other thread said that there's something personal between them but didn't go any further than that. Anyone know what it is?

[LiverpoolHibs]

See also... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELJh2bTK1ew)

Sky News really is as **** as it gets.*

* American news stations excepted.

[snooky]

That wasn't an interview that was an spoiled self-centred brat with a mike.

[Jonnyboy]

Like watching Jeremy Kyle

[Bayern Bru]

Anything that is ultimately Murdoch-owned/run is bound to be classless in some respects, if not all. :agree:

[Hainan Hibs]

They've had previous

YouTube - Adam Boulton and Alastair Campbell go toe to toe over Sky News bias against Labour in UK General Election (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85RXPnXDkrc#t=2m44s)

Campbell says the media were bias against Labour and Gordo, then Boulton has the audacity to bring on that **** Kelvin Mackenzie.

[Mibbes Aye]

Someone on the other thread said that there's something personal between them but didn't go any further than that. Anyone know what it is?

What's true is Adam married Anji Hunter, who was a senior official very close to Blair and who worked with him for a long time. As such, she also would have worked very closely with Campbell.

[hibsdaft]

then Boulton has the audacity to bring on that **** Kelvin Mackenzie.

pathetic attempt at a tag team ....

embarrassing.

[One Day Soon]

What's true is Adam married Anji Hunter, who was a senior official very close to Blair and who worked with him for a long time. As such, she also would have worked very closely with Campbell.

Ahem, cough, cough.

[One Day Soon]

See also... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELJh2bTK1ew)

Sky News really is as **** as it gets.*

* American news stations excepted.

Gonna have to break a habit and agree with you here. Mind you I watched ITN tonight and a news report in which the 'reporter' casually referred to Gordon Brown's 'lust for power' and his 'squatting in Downing Street'. This was not an interviewee, this was the political reporter for one of the nation's two main news programmes.

Whatever happened to the reporting of facts rather than the broadcasting of opinion? Bloody referees and media people, they want to be the story.

[hibsdaft]

hmm, i suspect there's more than meets the eye with all this, there's now four youtube clips out there of sky journalists losing the plot in an eye-opening manner, for little apparent reason since election night.

either they've had orders from above to scrap impartiality (rules say tv news should be strictly impartial, unlike print news which is free-er in that sense), or their hacks are being overworked and need a holiday.

i suspect they're all being threatened from above, since losing the election for their boss (murdoch).

[One Day Soon]

hmm, i suspect there's more than meets the eye with all this, there's now four youtube clips out there of sky journalists losing the plot in an eye-opening manner, for little apparent reason since election night.

either they've had orders from above to scrap impartiality (rules say tv news should be strictly impartial, unlike print news which is free-er in that sense), or their hacks are being overworked and need a holiday.

i suspect they're all being threatened from above, since losing the election for their boss (murdoch).

You mean "It was the Sun wot hung it"?

[Beefster]

Boulton almost did it again with Bradshaw last night.

YouTube - Adam Boulton Arguing With Ben Bradshaw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NWAkxKQLQs)

To be fair to Boulton, if I had to deal with smarmy, smug gits like Bradshaw on a daily basis, I'd be constantly losing the plot.

[hibsdaft]

To be fair to Boulton, if I had to deal with smarmy, smug gits like Bradshaw on a daily basis, I'd be constantly losing the plot.

thats his job though.

and Boulton is fairly smug and smarmy himself.

[heretoday]

Classic. The strain is getting to Boulton. He came across like a petulant schoolboy.

He's got a point. It's clear that Campbell and Mandelson are once again in charge of everything Labour does at the moment.

[JimBHibees]

Classic. The strain is getting to Boulton. He came across like a petulant schoolboy.

He's got a point. It's clear that Campbell and Mandelson are once again in charge of everything Labour does at the moment.

Yep and how sad is that.

[Beefster]

Classic. The strain is getting to Boulton. He came across like a petulant schoolboy.

He's got a point. It's clear that Campbell and Mandelson are once again in charge of everything Labour does at the moment.

If David Miliband gets the gig, I wouldn't expect that to change either. Not sure about Balls.

Apparently it's 2 unelected Labour ministers who are doing the main pushing behind the Lib / Lab talks too (i.e. Lords Mandy and Adonis).

[Hiber-nation]

Apparently Campbell called Boulton "fashionably fat" (whatever that's meant to mean) in his blog last month.

[lucky]

for me Alistair Campbell came across very well but biased to-wards Labours view, as you would expect but Adam Boulton is meant to be a reporter and journalist as such his bias was incredible. But his behavior was an absolute joke. If sky continue to punt this aggressive Tory stance then they will lose viewers

[Future17]

YouTube - Kay Burley bullies a protester in the name of "journalism" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELJh2bTK1ew)

Sky News really is as **** as it gets.*

* American news stations excepted.

That's embarassing. Does she actually believe that people deliberately voted for a hung parliament? Or that people who care about issues should just assume that politicians will do what they want at times like these?

Maybe the Suffragettes should've just stayed at home and assumed that they would just get the vote?

What a classless display for a political journalist - complete ignorane of the history of change in the political system and world events.

[Elephant Stone]

Sky News is revolting. The Kay Burley interview with the PR protester is absolutely comical.

[hibsbollah]

I dont know whether it was a)Boulton losing the rag, in which case he's just unprofessional, tired and letting his partiality come out, or whether b) its something more orchestrated. As another poster said there seems to be a lot of Sky hacks being aggressive with Govt interviewees at the moment.

[Hank Schrader]

I can't stand Boulton or that ****my news channel he works for. He is a knob.

[Barney McGrew]

If sky continue to punt this aggressive Tory stance then they will lose viewers

Maybe, but their boss (and middle England) will be lapping it up.

[Danderhall Hibs]

Sky News is revolting. The Kay Burley interview with the PR protester is absolutely comical.

YouTube - SACK KAY BURLEY! Protesters Demands Kay Burley Be Sacked On Live TV! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGxt8AnpiEw&feature=related)

:hilarious

[Future17]

I wonder if she now understands the potential power of protest! :thumbsup:

[One Day Soon]

The Boulton/Campbell stuff is intensely personal and is a running sore which has been open for years for reasons I'm not going to outline on this open forum. Very,very bitter.

[hibsbollah]

This made me laugh...'Its all gone a bit Ron Burgundy'

Many a cultural allusion has been made in recent weeks by journalists seeking to give some structure to what we former English A-level students call a freeform narrative of an election. On Monday, Jonathan Freedland listed the Shakespearean heroes (http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/may/09/gordon-brown-labour-leadership) that make up the tragic figure of Gordon Brown. Now I shall lob my own cultural allusion on to the cerebral pile and say: Holy bejeezus, it's all gone a bit Anchorman, hasn't it?

If you haven't seen Anchorman, you are clearly a loser. Sorry, I meant, if you haven't seen Anchorman, I shall explain. This film tells the story of a well-known news anchor called Ron Burgundy. Ron is a deeply vain man. Yet, with the tragic self-destructiveness of a Shakespearean figure, he nearly loses everything due to an "unfortunate incident" on air.

Which – with the smoothness that TV news (http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/tvnews) is known for – brings us to Adam Boulton (http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/adam-boulton), Sky News (http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/sky-news)'s highly branded anchor. Boulton's face is usually set to "self-satisfied" mode, but on Monday it turned an even deeper shade of Burgundy than usual during his now notorious exchange with Alastair Campbell (http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/alastaircampbell). "Don't keep casting aspersions on what I do or don't think!" Boulton bleated, his voice cracking. As Professor Freud once said: "Das Voicecrackingus ist eine sure sign zat von ist losing das plot."

Just to show how relevant Freudian theory still is, Boulton then screeched, outta pretty much nowheresville, "I actually love this country!" Campbell promptly informed him, "Adam, you are a pompous little arse" – making this surely the first time viewers have ever come away from an exchange involving Campbell thinking: "You know, that Alastair speaks plain, honest sense.":faf:

Boulton, incredibly, was not then bundled off home by his colleagues, making collective sympathetic noises to his face while rolling their eyes behind his back. Rather, he was still on air five hours later, a Raging Boul charging through the fragile china Labour cabinet. He redeployed his weapons of choice, a jabbing finger and purple face, and shouted at Ben Bradshaw, "Now listen, I'm not going to take this from you!"

Doubtless in his head, Boulton was Howard Beale from the 1976 film Network, shouting, "We're mad as hell and we're not going to take it any more!" To everyone outside of his head, he sounded like Ron Burgundy, bleating, "I am a man. I am an anchorman!" To confirm this, Bradshaw later tweeted "and off air after he said: 'Don't you DARE talk to me like that!' What is wrong with him?" My dear Ben, nothing is wrong with him – he is a newshand.

Boulton is not the only newshand to have had a recent meltdown. His colleague Kay Burley, always reliable for, shall we say, impassioned behaviour, conducted what has been described as an "overly aggressive" interview with that famously threatening sort of interviewee, a director of a campaign group protesting for reform of the voting system. "Why don't you go home and watch it on Sky News?" Burley spat at him, taking Sky News's famous love of self-promotion to a whole new level: stop making news, people, and just go home and watch us, sneering at you.

By the time Jeremy Paxman told viewers at 6.30 in the evening that the whole country had "made such a bollocks of the simple act of putting an 'x' on a piece of paper", he sounded so harmless he could have been a host on CBeebies.
Some might say that this is the inevitable fallout of having not just rolling news, but newscasters who find some sort of machismo in taking out and waggling their tally of hours on air to see whose is the highest. Boulton boasted to the Guardian on Monday that he'd done "10 hours in the anchor chair, two hours' sleep and back live outside No 10" – yes, Adam, and then you behaved like a big baby.

Regarding Burley and Boulton, many viewers and plenty of Labour MPs are crying Tory bias from the Murdoch-funded Sky. But this doesn't hold up in the case of Burley, who wields her fury against all worthy targets, from Peter Andre (whom she made cry this year) to the wife of a serial killer whom she once asked: "Do you think you'd have had a better sex life if he hadn't done this?"
Another possibility is that the shadow of Paxman hangs heavy over British broadcasting, making them all mistake "egomaniacal haranguing" for "professional probing".

But I don't think any of these accusations are right. You see, I love newshands. I love their artificial conventions, their pride in their whizzy graphics, their fake bonhomie. They are light entertainment with pretensions of political importance, and the inner-diva qualities that are a requisite for anyone who wants to be on TV that much have simply been waiting for the perfect conditions in which to erupt like an Icelandic volcano. A dragged-out election with 24-hour news coverage, for instance.

If the election has felt like The Thick of It writ large, then the TV newshands have shown how spot-on Network, Broadcast News, The Day Today and, most of all, Anchorman really are. All I needed for this election to be perfect was for Lorraine Kelly to wrap her hands around Sarah Brown's throat and cry: "Say something interesting, woman! This is LK Today, for chrissakes!" As Ron Burgundy would say: stay classy, Planet Earth.

[Greentinted]

This made me laugh...'Its all gone a bit Ron Burgundy'

Many a cultural allusion has been made in recent weeks by journalists seeking to give some structure to what we former English A-level students call a freeform narrative of an election. On Monday, Jonathan Freedland listed the Shakespearean heroes (http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/may/09/gordon-brown-labour-leadership) that make up the tragic figure of Gordon Brown. Now I shall lob my own cultural allusion on to the cerebral pile and say: Holy bejeezus, it's all gone a bit Anchorman, hasn't it?

If you haven't seen Anchorman, you are clearly a loser. Sorry, I meant, if you haven't seen Anchorman, I shall explain. This film tells the story of a well-known news anchor called Ron Burgundy. Ron is a deeply vain man. Yet, with the tragic self-destructiveness of a Shakespearean figure, he nearly loses everything due to an "unfortunate incident" on air.

Which – with the smoothness that TV news (http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/tvnews) is known for – brings us to Adam Boulton (http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/adam-boulton), Sky News (http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/sky-news)'s highly branded anchor. Boulton's face is usually set to "self-satisfied" mode, but on Monday it turned an even deeper shade of Burgundy than usual during his now notorious exchange with Alastair Campbell (http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/alastaircampbell). "Don't keep casting aspersions on what I do or don't think!" Boulton bleated, his voice cracking. As Professor Freud once said: "Das Voicecrackingus ist eine sure sign zat von ist losing das plot."

Just to show how relevant Freudian theory still is, Boulton then screeched, outta pretty much nowheresville, "I actually love this country!" Campbell promptly informed him, "Adam, you are a pompous little arse" – making this surely the first time viewers have ever come away from an exchange involving Campbell thinking: "You know, that Alastair speaks plain, honest sense.":faf:

Boulton, incredibly, was not then bundled off home by his colleagues, making collective sympathetic noises to his face while rolling their eyes behind his back. Rather, he was still on air five hours later, a Raging Boul charging through the fragile china Labour cabinet. He redeployed his weapons of choice, a jabbing finger and purple face, and shouted at Ben Bradshaw, "Now listen, I'm not going to take this from you!"

Doubtless in his head, Boulton was Howard Beale from the 1976 film Network, shouting, "We're mad as hell and we're not going to take it any more!" To everyone outside of his head, he sounded like Ron Burgundy, bleating, "I am a man. I am an anchorman!" To confirm this, Bradshaw later tweeted "and off air after he said: 'Don't you DARE talk to me like that!' What is wrong with him?" My dear Ben, nothing is wrong with him – he is a newshand.

Boulton is not the only newshand to have had a recent meltdown. His colleague Kay Burley, always reliable for, shall we say, impassioned behaviour, conducted what has been described as an "overly aggressive" interview with that famously threatening sort of interviewee, a director of a campaign group protesting for reform of the voting system. "Why don't you go home and watch it on Sky News?" Burley spat at him, taking Sky News's famous love of self-promotion to a whole new level: stop making news, people, and just go home and watch us, sneering at you.

By the time Jeremy Paxman told viewers at 6.30 in the evening that the whole country had "made such a bollocks of the simple act of putting an 'x' on a piece of paper", he sounded so harmless he could have been a host on CBeebies.
Some might say that this is the inevitable fallout of having not just rolling news, but newscasters who find some sort of machismo in taking out and waggling their tally of hours on air to see whose is the highest. Boulton boasted to the Guardian on Monday that he'd done "10 hours in the anchor chair, two hours' sleep and back live outside No 10" – yes, Adam, and then you behaved like a big baby.

Regarding Burley and Boulton, many viewers and plenty of Labour MPs are crying Tory bias from the Murdoch-funded Sky. But this doesn't hold up in the case of Burley, who wields her fury against all worthy targets, from Peter Andre (whom she made cry this year) to the wife of a serial killer whom she once asked: "Do you think you'd have had a better sex life if he hadn't done this?"
Another possibility is that the shadow of Paxman hangs heavy over British broadcasting, making them all mistake "egomaniacal haranguing" for "professional probing".

But I don't think any of these accusations are right. You see, I love newshands. I love their artificial conventions, their pride in their whizzy graphics, their fake bonhomie. They are light entertainment with pretensions of political importance, and the inner-diva qualities that are a requisite for anyone who wants to be on TV that much have simply been waiting for the perfect conditions in which to erupt like an Icelandic volcano. A dragged-out election with 24-hour news coverage, for instance.

If the election has felt like The Thick of It writ large, then the TV newshands have shown how spot-on Network, Broadcast News, The Day Today and, most of all, Anchorman really are. All I needed for this election to be perfect was for Lorraine Kelly to wrap her hands around Sarah Brown's throat and cry: "Say something interesting, woman! This is LK Today, for chrissakes!" As Ron Burgundy would say: stay classy, Planet Earth.

Nothing to add bar this: :top marks