Protesters Force Live Sky News Broadcast Off Air: "Rupert Murdoch Is Poison!" "Sky News is SHIT!"

[Turborama]

Run time: 01:01 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSlt-vedyL8   Posted on YouTube: May 08, 2010 By YouTube Member: bitchesgottalent Views on YouTube: 303   Posted on DU: May 08, 2010 By DU Member: Turborama Views on DU: 1668

 
Earlier, Kay Burley had given a particularly hostile and disgustingly rude and ignorant Faux news style interview to one of the voting reform demonstrators, here: (very quiet volume, best listened to with headphones on): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELJh2bTK1ew

Perhaps in response, this happened. They went to a long break and when they came back they had returned to a studio based newsreader.

They can also be heard chanting, "Sack Kate Burley!", "Down with the Murdoch empire!", "Don't watch Sky, watch the BBC!".

 #SackKayBurley is trending on Twitter now.

[tomm2thumbs]

1. 'turn off your television' - words to live by

[monmouth]

2. Egads, my dad was right! We were the last on our block to get a TV,

dad, not a cheap guy by any means, figured it was a fad and "going to end up being a "crapola" machine in the end."..Hahaha, bless his republican heart. He was soooooo right.

[Enthusiast]

4. How about we correct

the basic media unfairness. It does no Good for us to boycott media when the vast majority of the electorate do receive their information from TV. It is the harm the media is doing that concerns me. Correct the unfairness.

[dipsydoodle]

9. As the first comment on Youtube says

If you don't like it then don't watch it. Overall I'd say she's pretty good at her job. Any comparisons of Sky against Fox are absurd IMHO.

Change to PR would need a referendum anyway and at present nobody knows what would accompany that by way of who, for example, then choses MPs and rights for dumping MPs who don't subsequently perform as expected.

[Turborama]

10. With all due respect. If you saw the interview I linked to in the OP

you'd see that she did anything but a good job. In fact, her attitude in that "interview" was ruder than a lot of Faux news anchors I've seen. On a par with Bill O'Rielly on a bad day.

[dipsydoodle]

12. What she was saying was infact accurate

and the intviewee had no means of defending that. Its undeniable that the population in effect voted for a hung parliament. Anyone with half brain , a fag packet and a pencil could figure that even with proportional represenation the results would have differed little. The actual totals are here : http://www.general-election-2010.co.uk/2010-general-election-results.html It would remain a hung parliament.

I'd actually said "overall" and I still maintian that.

:hi:

[Turborama]

13. She can't seem to make her mind up

Today she's been saying the opposite, that the British public didn't vote for a hung parliament. A hung parliament wasn't on the ballot, it is simply the result of the way the votes went. I've seen her say it to 2 different Labour politicians so far.

As I mentioned in the UK forum, if overall percentages equated to seats, the Conservatives would have 235, Labour 191 and Lib Dems 149 seats. This is a fairer representation of how the British electorate voted and means that the Tories or the Labour party could have had a majority government in coalition with the Lib Dems without the need of the smaller parties.

I wouldn't know about her overall reporting as I'm only watching Sky because it's the only channel that's going with this 24/7 where I live. Normally I watch Al Jazeera English, BBC World or CNN International.

:hi:

[w4rma]

11. I'm not concerned about myself being propagandized. I have the information to prevent it.

I'm concerned about low information voters being propagandized.

[activa8tr]

3. I hope Faux Snooze does some outside interviews in the next few

months, and that this kind of on-air practice will go viral.

[Crowman1979]

5. This is almost as good as the "Fuck Fox News" rant at the 2008 DNC convention.

[ihavenobias]

6. Thanks for posting. n/t

[Turborama]

7. The Guardian: Sack Kay Burley - top Twitter trend

The other trending topic – top of the UK list as I write – is Sack Kay Burley. What heinous crime can the Sky News presenter have committed, I hear you cry? Well, as she was broadcasting live today, a noisy protest march (urging the Lib Dems not to sell out to the Tories on proportional representation) made its way past the Sky News broadcasting position on College Green, London.

It prompted Burley http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KExTelt3MkE">to say, on air: "Lots of demonstrators shouting 'fair votes now' – not sure what they mean by that." Was that political commentary from a news organisation supposedly bound by Ofcom's impartiality rules? Surely not.

But that wasn't the main complaint. Her interview with one of the protest's organisers, David Babbs of http://38degrees.org.uk/">38 Degrees, was also seen as unnecessarily confrontational. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELJh2bTK1ew">It's worth a watch on YouTube – by the end of it, she's shrieking at Babbs, barely letting him get a word out. It's quite an extraordinary piece of television. Paxman, it ain't.

Later, she was heckled by a protester who chanted: "Sack Kay Burley. Watch the BBC. Sky News is shit." You can see the that one on YouTube too.

Continues: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2010/may/08/kay-burley-sky-news-twitter

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. Post-election polls show strong support for proportional representation

Showing that Kay Burley has absolutely no clue what the feeling of the British public is:

62% said they supported a change to a more proportional system, with only 13% supporting FPTP. You can get a lot of variation in FPRP v PR survey questions depending upon how the question is asked, but if this question is a repeat of one of YouGov’s previous electoral reform questions it is probably a big jump in support for electoral reform.

ICM also have post-election poll. They found similar preferences on who should form the government, 51% wanted a Conservative minority (18%) or Conservative/LD coalition (33%) and 32% wanted a Lab/LD coalition. ICM however found considerably less support for electoral reform – 48% supported PR, but 39% supported sticking with FPTP.

http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/blog/archives/2694