Will never forget Kuenssberg’s response to Stephen Flynn when he commented on the NI Brexit mess. He said, “We’re in this situation because Boris Johnson lied” to which she retorted, “That’s quite the charge.” No Laura. It’s the truth. And we might not be in this mess if you hadn’t helped bury it. - ThreadSky

13sarahmurphy.bsky.social • 72 days ago

Will never forget Kuenssberg’s response to Stephen Flynn when he commented on the NI Brexit mess.
He said, “We’re in this situation because Boris Johnson lied” to which she retorted,
“That’s quite the charge.”
No Laura. It’s the truth. And we might not be in this mess if you hadn’t helped bury it.

Reposted from Press Gazette

Winner of Interviewer of the Year is Laura Kuenssberg of the BBC - judges said she is “forensic, politely determined and never lets her subject off the hook” #BritishJournalismAwards

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barry-halverson.bsky.social•71 days ago

Also, when did Laura know about the parties at No.10? She often quoted senior sources in Downing St, so as political editor of BBC News at the time, she either knew & didn’t report them, which makes her complicit, or she didn’t know which makes her incompetent. Neither is a good look.

stephenh.bsky.social•72 days ago

How is she winning an award?
She is a rage farming celebrity “journalist”.

triassic.bsky.social•72 days ago

She trump all other story tellers for this award. Daddy is so proud!

therealgreenegg.bsky.social•72 days ago

Wait a minute. I think I've just gone to a parallel dimension.

nlwa.bsky.social•72 days ago

Is this award a joke?

lesleybruce.bsky.social•72 days ago

Surely the Kuenssberg story is satire. Interviewer of the year??

johnbone.bsky.social•72 days ago

“forensic, politely determined and never lets her subject off the hook”
= Mishal Husain

doodleslave.bsky.social•72 days ago

Where are the milkshake throwers? Despicable woman, mouthpiece of evil, she should be jailed.

terrysmyth.bsky.social•72 days ago

Good grief! I guess it's her turn. Does any normal person take notice of these insular awards?

tweetjohnnyboy.bsky.social•72 days ago

This isn't an award for journalism.
It's an award for hackery.

bi99le5.bsky.social•72 days ago

Are they taking the piss here?

jacg1.bsky.social•72 days ago

I did look at the background to see whether it was like the time Katie Hopkins got the Campaign to Unify the Nation Trophy

pensionerdave.bsky.social•72 days ago

Oh fuck, I’ve just pissed myself laughing.

ynwa1888.bsky.social•72 days ago

This only shows how complicit the msm is in hiding the truth

robinknox.bsky.social•57 days ago

She is useless, "the tory tickler"

robinknox.bsky.social•72 days ago

The tory tickler

clickbaitwizard.bsky.social•72 days ago

In Britain, "the press" is a synonym for "self obsession".

philpixy7.bsky.social•72 days ago

Sounds as though the judges were looking at another interviewer altogether.

clickbaitwizard.bsky.social•72 days ago

Pretty certain all the judges are privately educated too.

2300.bsky.social•72 days ago

🤦

cllrandyoddy.bsky.social•72 days ago

The judges must live in an alternate reality. Think they needed to be more forensic about the story telling she helped cover up. In a proverbial boxing match with Victoria Derbyshire the judges would call a no contest in round 1 - and be taking Kuenssberg out on a stretcher

sleibhin.bsky.social•69 days ago

BBC is an ‘employed-by-the-state’ govt mouthpiece; its salary is the tv licence fee, so why wouldn’t it adhere to the terms and conditions of its contract? Both Tory & pseudo-Labour recognise it will pay the piper.

kathya1.bsky.social•71 days ago

But it was awarded by the BBC, what would you expect?

day17anne.bsky.social•72 days ago

Jesus wept! Interviewer of the Year?. Just no! no! no! I truly despair!

whatphildid.bsky.social•72 days ago

Well this doesn’t impress the viewing public. It must have been an industry vote marking their own homework as per…

noahbeery.bsky.social•72 days ago

WTAF she won…? 😡

debzoid.bsky.social•72 days ago

She’s just a joke

ukmigrant.bsky.social•72 days ago

Just shows how right wing the BBC is!
Who was on the judging panel….. Tufton Street?

peterpaddler.bsky.social•41 days ago

Nigel Farage as well because he's on every bbc panel

kevr.bsky.social•71 days ago

Just shows the valuelessness of the award.

jdfg.bsky.social•72 days ago

I can’t stand Kuenssberg and I’m truly astonished that she wins awards..

kokopopz.bsky.social•72 days ago

fishytaste.bsky.social•72 days ago

Except when the interviewee is Boris (swoon) Johnson

viviennesoton.bsky.social•72 days ago

They must see that giving awards for interviewing to someone who is so transparently bad at interviewing anybody but her friends devalues their award.

nezagreen.bsky.social•72 days ago

Considering her job is about communication & journalism she's woeful at it ,with very little grasp of the relevant facts and detail.

euromec23.bsky.social•72 days ago

Absolutely, the message I get from other journalists is that she shoots first and asks questions later. Even the TV presenter, not journalist Gay Byrne during the famous chat to Pádraig Flynn about Gilmore on the Late Late, didn't shoot first.

londonluce.bsky.social•72 days ago

Just just soft balls the Tories and never stopped trying for a gotcha with labour! Why?

nifjnick.bsky.social•72 days ago

Being congratulated by one of the biggest culprits of the platforming Farage operation, I see…

victoria1921.bsky.social•72 days ago

Anyone else want to see the liars charged? Johnson and all Tories who followed him. Farage and too many others who conspired to break Britain, but Kuenssberg, Mason, BBCQT, Daily Mail deserve punishment not awards.

samanthadone.bsky.social•72 days ago

Is that a parody account?? 🤷🏻‍♀️

richarddubourg.bsky.social•72 days ago

Nothing will change when journalists indulge each other's shiteness.

csav55.bsky.social•72 days ago

Ludicrous decision but the rest of the awards although well deserved were given entirely to MSM outlets. Nothing for the excellent Byline Times or the many journalists working on smaller non MSM platforms. Just another round of the cosy world of legacy media.

207michael.bsky.social•72 days ago

The BBC and so many others did let Johnson etc.. of the hook far too easily. The fact that Johnson was allowed to get away with his dishonesty is quite telling

alistairrobertson.bsky.social•57 days ago

She is a propagandist for the right! Simples.

marilynb.bsky.social•72 days ago

Victoria! Victoria! Everyone knows she is far better than LK

wrenjh.bsky.social•72 days ago

This is such a bad joke.
The only good thing about Kuenssberg's Sunday morning show, is that I have a lie-in now because I refuse to watch it!

donnarejoin.bsky.social•72 days ago

Good grief. She has to be the worst journalist in the country! Forensic?! This is one of those stories that makes me feel like I'm quite mad.

russellengland.bsky.social•72 days ago

Yep, remember it well

I ran a poll with a long thread of Johnson's lies

"Is Johnson a pathological liar?"

Yes : 10,400 votes

No : 42 votes

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1627563447146643457.html

jacg1.bsky.social•72 days ago

Laura was so busy that day, she didn’t have the chance to keep pressing ‘No’

chrisg-29.bsky.social•72 days ago

Are they serious ? How on Earth did she win this award ? Kuenssberg is nothing more than a Tory shill.

stuart-g-yates.bsky.social•72 days ago

Well, that's it. With this accolade she'll be on our screens for another dozen years. The Beeb's Tory infected board of governors are not about to give her up any time soon.

gec236.bsky.social•72 days ago

The Tory sneering Interviewer of the year ..

How grotesque

endpopulistlies.bsky.social•72 days ago

It’s not the only time she’s done it either

I’ve not forgotten her response to this which I think was almost identical

The truth is the enemy of all far right wing extremists and Neo Nazis

Lie repetition is their bible

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-59164437

jeff2mex.bsky.social•72 days ago

No impartiality, totally biased, not holding liars to account but helping to promote those lies and propaganda and then rewarded for it … yeah, that’s quite an achievement.
With more billionaire endorsers taking further control, it will get worse and any form of democracy is a thing of the past.

actonblue.bsky.social•72 days ago

Wow they do like to look after their own.
Victoria Derbyshire should've won.

sallylowe.bsky.social•72 days ago

WTAF! She won an award?????

fbpech.bsky.social•72 days ago

Honestly- WHY are people still watching this appalling woman?

jacg1.bsky.social•72 days ago

Is it like watching a car crash? You know it’s crass to but you can’t help it

puzz623.bsky.social•69 days ago

Dear Ms Kuenssberg,

Bollox.

Yours, etc.

jamessramblings.bsky.social•72 days ago

She's a stain on her profession.

brianl028.bsky.social•72 days ago

A stunning indictment of MSM journalism in the UK. The BBC still announces itself as trustworthy and a checker of facts. That is laughable. I won't even listen to this nonsense regarding Kuenssberg. Never lets her interviewee off the hook? What about Johnston? Dear me.

thepoliticaldiva.bsky.social•72 days ago

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-38666914

ros14.bsky.social•72 days ago

A joke & what's Vine doing there?
Little wonder I've switched all of it off.🤗

euroscanner.net•72 days ago

We can only hope that winning this award means she can quit whilst she's ahead to spend more time with her fantasies. ☠️

davidglendinning.bsky.social•72 days ago

I can tell without checking that this award was not voted on by the viewing/reading public🙄

orrpix.bsky.social•72 days ago

Confirmation that awards can become meaningless when those making the choice are part of the problem.

sallylowe.bsky.social•72 days ago

Seems the same in all walks of life now.
We're fu**ed...

caxskye.bsky.social•72 days ago

OMG - the network must have worked overtime!

jakkb77.bsky.social•72 days ago

Give us Victoria Derbyshire any day of the week.

emmab12.bsky.social•72 days ago

This is a satire award right?

lowprofile2021.bsky.social•72 days ago

Who were the judges?!

rmassam.bsky.social•72 days ago

Sycophantic award to someone who never asks questions of Tories & Reform worth anything at all. This is an award for failure. Time for her to resign from the BBC

buzzardinnit.bsky.social•72 days ago

It is laughable that Laura won this award when her shadow presenter Victoria Derbyshire is better than she is! The awards are just devices to help keep political press plants in place.

13sarahmurphy.bsky.social•72 days ago

And… here is Johnson - two years earlier - telling NI businesses that there won’t be any kind of border in the Irish Sea, that they can throw any forms in the bin. Technically known as “Lying his arse off”, Laura.

jamesprice.bsky.social•72 days ago

There is also film evidence of him in December 2020 claiming that there would be no non tariff barriers to trade with the EU.

He just lies.

Yes, that is quite a charge.

Guilty.

jacg1.bsky.social•72 days ago

Boris says whatever he needs to say to get him through today. He has no thoughts about the impact of what he says today on tomorrow. He simply thinks of some more shite to get him through tomorrow. Rinse & repeat

omminc.bsky.social•71 days ago

Exactly !

jamesprice.bsky.social•72 days ago

You don't say!

Followed.

pwrussell.bsky.social•72 days ago

Well that’s quite a charge, Sarah. We can’t go around calling people liars just because they made a public statement that was the diametric opposite of the truth now, can we?

skzcartoons.bsky.social•70 days ago

It was seeing her fawning to Gove and Johnson after the vote in an interview which turned me into a satirist. She asked questions like "so how will Brexit make things better?" and never challenged a single reply. And they were _all_ false. I've not trusted anything the BBC says since.

adybee.bsky.social•69 days ago

mikegdagri.bsky.social•72 days ago

Vic Derbyshire obviously didn't enter then🤔🤷

execrable.bsky.social•72 days ago

Johnson lied to the DUP on the eve of the Brexit vote. He actually went to Ballymena to address a meeting of the DUP to do it, that there would be a border down the middle of the Irish Sea over his dead body (again) to great cheers from those present. A few days later he crossed them. A Tory thing.

tedalk.bsky.social•72 days ago

'Forensic'. God help us

jacg1.bsky.social•72 days ago

‘Forensic’ in the sense of examining her dead career

johnflanagan.bsky.social•72 days ago

And on Monday all the ‘journalists’ will bleat as one:
‘people are disengaging from MSM…’

johnflanagan.bsky.social•72 days ago

An award for a notorious liar and propagandist. The Press Gazette poses as the ‘future of media’, maybe they should be based in Pyongyang - Kuenssberg’s spiritual home.

trevthered.bsky.social•71 days ago

The brilliant Victoria Derbyshire makes Kuennsberg look like a novice

alangeorge123.bsky.social•72 days ago

She's bloody useless.

barnyblue.bsky.social•72 days ago

Must have been a very small field of 1

tall-paul.bsky.social•72 days ago

Sorry the same Laura Kuenssberg that *checks notes* “accidentally” sent her interview notes to the disgraced Boris Johnson?

daviddutton1969.bsky.social•72 days ago

She's an absolute joke,a disgrace to journalism

rmckn.bsky.social•72 days ago

Thats ridiculous!

thestephenralph.bsky.social•72 days ago

And I'll never forget James O'Brien's monologue that LBC went on to delete even though every single word he said was spoken accurately and correctly. ☹️

One of your finest moments of clarity. @mrjamesob.bsky.social 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻