The Insiders In a 2002 interview with the Observer, the BBC’s John Cody Fidler-Simpson CBE of Kabul, to give him his full name and title, was asked to define the ‘essential qualities’ of a journalist. Simpson responded with typical left-field quirkiness: ‘There's something slightly wrong with

Some of the responses are incredible with how genuinely petty some journalists get with even minor criticisms, and how often they rely on dismissal of public complaints as robots, Joseph Stalin or some other bullshit.

  • LibsEatPoop2 [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    ‘I’m not saying you’re self-censoring. I’m sure you believe everything you say. But what I’m saying is if you believed something different you wouldn’t be sitting where you’re sitting.’

    Chomsky's good.

    But yeah, this is a good piece. Really shows how terrible the BBC is in particular.