New Newsnight - Newsnight Lite?

[Nick Armstrong]

Orla Guerin and Lys Ducet (both outstanding and packing a powerful moral punch),

Unwatchable I find. Ms Guerin I find so rebarbative that I can't resist the cruel sense that her presence must in part be a cause of the local conflicts / warfare about which she is commenting.

[Anna]

I saw Evan Davis described as "an elongated Yoda in an inappropriate suit"

[Serial_Apologist]

I saw Evan Davis described as "an elongated Yoda in an inappropriate suit"

I had to gargoyle after that one!

[Richard Tarleton]

Unwatchable I find. Ms Guerin I find so rebarbative that I can't resist the cruel sense that her presence must in part be a cause of the local conflicts / warfare about which she is commenting.

Well at least one knows that if she's there, things must be bad - as they used to say about Kate Adie.....

[Nick Armstrong]

Well at least one knows that if she's there, things must be bad - as they used to say about Kate Adie.....

Yes, my dad said recently - if you came across her talking to a camera, you'd know to reach for your tin hat !

[gradus]

Kate, Orla and Lyse the three Horsepersons of the Apocalypse. We're all doomed!

[mercia]

I can't get used to Ms Doucet's Canadian vowels

[ahinton]

Unwatchable I find. Ms Guerin I find so rebarbative that I can't resist the cruel sense that her presence must in part be a cause of the local conflicts / warfare about which she is commenting.

I'm afraid that I'm with you there!

[teamsaint]

I used to love watching Elinor Goodman at election times.

Once met her under unusual circumstances.

Sort of expected her to add a running commentary, or something. very charming she was.

i also met David Hemery in the same circumstances. The same might be said, I suppose , about a running commentary.

[Serial_Apologist]

Once met her under unusual circumstances.

Hiding under the bed??

[teamsaint]

Hiding under the bed??

Your active imagination is just one of your many qualities, S_A !!

Actually , no, not there.Sadly th e circumstances were unusual, but not interesting.
Probably not really unusual, now I think about it.


(Why would EG be hiding under a bed?)

[VodkaDilc]

Once met her (Elinor Goodman) under unusual circumstances.
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I think she was a member of the Leveson Enquiry - fascinating way to spent one's retirement.

[Serial_Apologist]

(Why would EG be hiding under a bed?)

Investigative journalism, I would think.

[Richard Tarleton]

Watching Evan Davies's interview with Owen Patterson last night (an interview which got nowhere) I realised what was wrong with ED - he wriggles, never sits still in his desperation to make his point. It looks weak. His media-trained subjects are taught to sit still and keep their hands still, he flails about. It ought to be them wriggling.

[Cockney Sparrow]

I vaguely recall Eddy Mair - must have been a Friday Night Tryout for the vacant to be post. He still got nowhere with his interviewee, but he was calm, and somehow he makes it more painfully obvious that the reason why nothing useful is being said by the interviewee is entirely to do with them, despite his best efforts. To me, he does this on the radio too , but all in a less disdainful way than Paxman. Mind you, after the number of years Paxman had in the role, and having agreed to stay on to give Newsnight a better chance of survival, its no wonder he got to the point of not being able to conceal his low regard for the political, business etc characters he was interviewing.