10 more questions for The Sun about its 'BBC presenter' story.
10 more questions for The Sun about its 'BBC presenter' story.
News UK should answer. It won't.
Previously: 9 questions The Sun should answer about its dodgy BBC story
This is no longer a BBC story, it's a News Corp story.
Yesterday, I wrote a list of questions for The Sun but the story is ongoing, so here is a list of 10 more:
1. When Samantha Fox posed for Page Three in 1983, a few days after her sixteenth birthday, making her — according to Stick It Up Your Punter: The Uncut Story of The Sun — “the youngest professional topless model in the country”, was she “a child”, “a youngster”, or someone whose tits you thought adults should leer over?
2. If the private conduct of people on dating apps is a matter for public discussion will you be sharing the behaviour of staff? And can we know who your Political Editor was dating during lockdown, whether they were employed in Downing Street, and if they attended Partygate parties? And how much did your Political Editor know?
3. How much is the sexuality of the BBC presenter a factor in your obsessive pursuit of them?
4. A repeat of yesterday’s 4th question: How fucked does your legal department think you are now?
5. If lockdown breaches are important — and they are — why did you employ James Slack as your Deputy Editor after he was involved in Partygate and why is he still employed when he didn’t tell The Sun about that story…?
6. Why was The Sun’s own lockdown-breaching Christmas party okay?
7. If you’re so confident in your stories why haven’t you sent out any journalists or editors to do a broadcast round? Why are you hiding in the News Building?
8. If you’re deeply bothered about personal probity in relationships, why do you employ Rod Liddle as a columnist?
9. Do you have any evidence that the BBC presenter committed any criminal offences…?
10. If paying people for explicit pictures is bad, will you stop doing it?
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Good questions, somehow I doubt you’re going to get any answers, though!
I can’t understand what point there is to this story. I know that Murdoch takes any chance to undermine the BBC, but how is it going to stop people from watching Wimbledon?
The Sun has lost £550m+ since ’17. Balance sheet value is zero. Quite a hit, even for a billionaire Dirty Digger. Assume it will be sold the second he’s gone, as its job – enforcing the neocon legacy of Thatcher/Blair/Major/Cameron – is done. So what will be left? Just a foul stain on our history.
There’s still the profitable Times, tho’ it’s just The Sun with a better thesaurus (©Mic Wright, I believe).