The British journalist Jon Snow has been accused of saying ‘fuck the Tories’ at the Glastonbury event.
Now, if it’s true, then not only has his future career has been poisoned, though at 69 he’ll likely be retiring soon anyway, but it will cast his prior work in a new light. OTOH if it’s false, then his career will be unfairly tarnished. Mud sticks, alas.
You know nothing, Jon Snow.
That Bastard! Exile him, send him off to some frozen hellhole with a fig leaf of an “honorable retirement.” Maybe if he makes something of himself he can try to come back, but odds are he’ll just die there while watching everything he loved back home fall to shit.
[sub]And hope and pray he doesn’t come back from the dead and come back home anyway.[/sub]
Enjoy,
Steven
Little better than a Whig.
I like him more now 
Fwiw since the BBC’s last political editor was the head of the Young Conservatives nationally I don’t think being avowedly biased is considered that big a deal.
Winter is coming.
When those who are privileged get dinged in any way it feels like oppression; Quartz’s Tory leanings are used to being reinforced by his media and when they’re ATTACKED w/ a four-letter word, well - it must be the end of the utterer’s career.
I do. I don’t like it on whichever side the bias exists. At least the editor is at one step removed from the camera. I can excuse it more for Channel 4 but not the BBC. Do you remember John Cole? One of Thatcher’s favourite reporters, yet he was very left-wing and only revealed that after his retirement.
Wrong!
I only voted for them because they were the best chance of defeating the SNP. And my tactical vote turned out well. In 2015 I voted Labour. In 2010 I voted Lib Dem (there was no way I was going to vote for one of Margaret Moran’s cronies).
Nick Robinson was - and still is - in front of the camera a lot. TBF it’s probably pretty much impossible to find a good political journalist who’s uninvolved enough to be neutral. My point is that it’s unlikely that this, if it happened at all, will damage Jon Snow’s career.
In the BBC News hierarchy, Editor is the most senior on-air role.
Fuck the Tories? What, all of them?
If he can’t be neutral - and the events of 2010 indicate that he cannot - he shouldn’t be in front of the BBC’s cameras.
I don’t expect them to be personally neutral; I expect them to put their personal politics behind them and report neutrally and fairly.
I hope the allegation is false, proven so, and does indeed not affect his career.
The main thing I know about Jon Snow is his pop-song-as-news-story segments on The Great Big Fat Quiz of the Year (or Everything, or some decade, etc.) are excellent.
Sorry, I’m American.
It comes down to punctuation: "Fuck the tories is what dream are made of,” v. “Fuck! The tories is what dream are made of.”
Bastard!
Sort of like the panda that eats shoots and leaves.
Was Snow reporting from Glastonbury at the time he made the alleged remarks?
Because if not, this is his personal politics.
In this case putting personal politics behind means keeping your personal opinions to yourself until after you’ve retired.