Eddie Mair

[Richard Tarleton]

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... channel 4 news is our go-to place here : not so much for the predictably over-earnest Snow - but for the rest of the team : Cathy Newman, Matt Frei, Kylie Morris, Helia Ibrahimi, Jackie Long, Alex Thomson, Gary Gibbon, Lindsey Hilsum, Siobhan Kennedy, Michael Crick, Jonathan Miller, Jonathan Rugman, Victoria Macdonald, Andy Davies, Paraic O'Brien, Ciaran Jenkins, and all the rest - no other channel can match this team...


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You don't mention Krishnan Guru-Murthy, who (along with Newman) is prone to lose his cool, and not listen......Mair, master of the stiletto and always polite....but yes, many outstanding, and (Crick, Frei, Morris) the Beeb's loss.

[vinteuil]

... Krishnan Guru-Murthy ... prone to lose his cool, and not listen......Mair, master of the stiletto and always polite....

... I agree : perhaps Eddie Mair wd be a good replacement

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[VodkaDilc]

... I agree : perhaps Eddie Mair wd be a good replacement

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I've just read the suggestion that he's moving to LBC. I can't imagine that I'll be making an effort to find that on the dial, even to follow Eddie. I suppose he is very much a radio, rather than television, person.

[VodkaDilc]

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... channel 4 news is our go-to place here : not so much for the predictably over-earnest Snow - but for the rest of the team : Cathy Newman, Matt Frei, Kylie Morris, Helia Ibrahimi, Jackie Long, Alex Thomson, Gary Gibbon, Lindsey Hilsum, Siobhan Kennedy, Michael Crick, Jonathan Miller, Jonathan Rugman, Victoria Macdonald, Andy Davies, Paraic O'Brien, Ciaran Jenkins, and all the rest - no other channel can match this team…
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An impressive team - though, for me, it's the over-earnest and English-mangling Jackie Long who makes me reach for off switch. All the rest are wonderful.

[Richard Tarleton]

... I agree : perhaps Eddie Mair wd be a good replacement

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I remember AA Gill taking Guru-Murthy to task for not thanking a doubtless unsavoury member of the far right with whom he had just conducted a rather heated interview - saying he was as deserving of courtesy (having come on the programme) as any other interviewee - he merely swung away to address the camera.

[Serial_Apologist]

An impressive team - though, for me, it's the over-earnest and English-mangling Jackie Long who makes me reach for off switch. All the rest are wonderful.

I'm sure Michael Crick will get himself thumped one day, however...

[VodkaDilc]

I'm sure Michael Crick will get himself thumped one day, however...

Didn't one of Farage's sidekicks have a go at him once?

[Richard Tarleton]

Niall Ferguson reminds us in today's Sunday Times of one of Cathy Newman's less successful interviews, with Jordan Peterson of Toronto University.

Michael Crick was President of the Oxford Union immediately after Philip May - invited Philip May's girlfriend to speak in a debate, she was very good apparently.

[Pianorak]

Julian Worricker from BBC World Service as replacement for Eddie Mair, perhaps?

[VodkaDilc]

Julian Worricker from BBC World Service as replacement for Eddie Mair, perhaps?

To mis-quote someone who was asked about a new church appointment, "I don't know who will replace him, but I'm sure she will be very good."

[teamsaint]

Perhaps the news will get better.


News without politicians for a month would be good.

[Wychwood]

Julian Worricker from BBC World Service as replacement for Eddie Mair, perhaps?

Are we overlooking Carolyn Quinn? She's had plenty of experience presenting PM. Or is she destined to be the eternal stand-in presenter?

[gurnemanz]

I can appreciate his qualities but his style can get irksome and at that time of day I usually stick with In Tune or even Five Live in preference and only go over to R4 for 6 o'Clock News. I find myself ever more steering clear of news in the face of ongoing Brexit insanity.

[Old Grumpy]

Mainly a drive-time listener, I have steered clear (no pun intended) of Today and PM for at least a decade, preferring to listen to R3. I find I I get quite enough news for my needs from R3 bulletins and my daily newspaper.

OG

[jayne lee wilson]

Niall Ferguson reminds us in today's Sunday Times of one of Cathy Newman's less successful interviews, with Jordan Peterson of Toronto University.

Michael Crick was President of the Oxford Union immediately after Philip May - invited Philip May's girlfriend to speak in a debate, she was very good apparently.

Judge for yourself...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcjxSThD54

...what many men missed was how well Cathy Newman's questions challenged him, in a way that provoked or inspired his impressively clear articulacy of response ... if she'd been more agreeable or asked subtler questions, this could have been simply boring, just a platform... Peterson appreciated that, and both seemed to enjoy the set-to. There is an certain art in journalistic provocation.