Tony Blackburn Sacked [UKain News]
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I've just read Blackburn's statement[^] and, taken with the fact the BBC are *not commenting at this time*, there appear to be more questions arrising than are being answered. I wonder if this is Hissing Sid all over again?
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I wouldn't expect the Beeb to comment yet - the report it's based on isn't published for two weeks yet, and it would prejudice or defeat the purpose of the report to comment on it before people can read the document the comments would have to be based on! Having said that, for them to take the extreme action to publically dump him two weeks before is ... um ... unusual, and implies that there is material in the report that they are trying to distance themselves from as fast as possible. Odd way to behave in both cases...One side dumps the other, the the dumpee immediately starts legal action to get his job back before any information on why has been released. Did TB punch the DG over a supper row or something? :laugh: [edit]I misread the publication date[/edit]
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I wouldn't expect the Beeb to comment yet - the report it's based on isn't published for two weeks yet, and it would prejudice or defeat the purpose of the report to comment on it before people can read the document the comments would have to be based on! Having said that, for them to take the extreme action to publically dump him two weeks before is ... um ... unusual, and implies that there is material in the report that they are trying to distance themselves from as fast as possible. Odd way to behave in both cases...One side dumps the other, the the dumpee immediately starts legal action to get his job back before any information on why has been released. Did TB punch the DG over a supper row or something? :laugh: [edit]I misread the publication date[/edit]
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The report is actually due to be published in 5 minutes time!
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The report is actually due to be published in 5 minutes time!
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Misread: corrected.
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I've just read Blackburn's statement[^] and, taken with the fact the BBC are *not commenting at this time*, there appear to be more questions arrising than are being answered. I wonder if this is Hissing Sid all over again?
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I was listening on Radio4 this morning and they mentioned that the BBC has not commented yet... that's BBC Radio4 :doh:
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I was listening on Radio4 this morning and they mentioned that the BBC has not commented yet... that's BBC Radio4 :doh:
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
Aunty's News does try to report Aunty's affairs in third person.
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Aunty's News does try to report Aunty's affairs in third person.
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Hmm, All the BBC appears to have done is harbor peados & rapists. Who knew?. If TB has done a JC, at this rate we will end up with Weather staff presenting....
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Hmm, All the BBC appears to have done is harbor peados & rapists. Who knew?. If TB has done a JC, at this rate we will end up with Weather staff presenting....
glennPattonNotInThePUB wrote:
If TB has done a JC
Tony Blackburn is the Messiah!?!
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glennPattonNotInThePUB wrote:
If TB has done a JC
Tony Blackburn is the Messiah!?!
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I've just read Blackburn's statement[^] and, taken with the fact the BBC are *not commenting at this time*, there appear to be more questions arrising than are being answered. I wonder if this is Hissing Sid all over again?
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Sensational!
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He's not the Messiah! He's a very naughty boy! Allegedly! Though to be honest it's damn near impossible to work out what he's actually supposed to have done.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
According to the BBC News at lunchtime, he was "failing to fully co-operate with the Jimmy Savile inquiry" and "Janet Smith's inquiry had rejected the evidence from the Radio 2 DJ" It may be a massive over-reaction from the Beeb - they are good at those - but it's also possible that since he worked closely with Savile that he coloured his evidence to present him in a better light, or hide his own knowledge of what was going on. We probably will never know. Either way, I can't imagine Blackburn as a sexual predator; it would be like being molested by a Cabbage Patch Doll, or groped by My Little Pony... :laugh:
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I've just read Blackburn's statement[^] and, taken with the fact the BBC are *not commenting at this time*, there appear to be more questions arrising than are being answered. I wonder if this is Hissing Sid all over again?
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