The Guardian: "Sack Kay Burley" - Top Twitter Trend

[Turborama]

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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSlt-vedyL8">see the that one on YouTube too.

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

The "Sky News is shit!" video is in the political videos forum, too: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x463157

[Anarcho-Socialist]

1. so it's not just me then

Her inane commentary can make the worst of BBC and ITN seem insightful in comparison. I've not seen any other British newscaster stumble as much over the autocue as she does.

[mr blur]

2. Who the hell "voted for a hung Parliament"?

Stupid woman.

[dipsydoodle]

3. Given that was the outcome

then everyone in effect. Bit hard to dispute that point of view really and assuming everyone who voted would've done the same under PR then I don't really it would've made much difference anyway.

Actual totals / party are shown here : http://www.general-election-2010.co.uk/2010-general-election-results.html

[non sociopath skin]

5. Except, of course, that they wouldn't have ...

The Skin

[fedsron2us]

4. Classic 'category error'

You can only vote for a candidate. The Hung Parliament is just the result of the sum of those decisions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_mistake

The MSM feed the public this illogical nonsense all the time.

[dipsydoodle]

7. Well you'd better tell Yvette Cooper MP that

cos she just used that exact expression on live tv news : " the British public voted for a hung parliament "

[T_i_B]

6. The trouble here is this...

..the likes of Avaaz and 38 Degrees were camapigning during the election in support of the idea of a hung parliament, which I found illogical at the time. Now it's all about PR, where I think they should be camapigning on the subject of polling station failures in places such as Ealing, Manchester, Sheffield and Leeds.

That said, I missed all the twitter stuff on Saturday, I only did 1 tweet all day and that was about Vanilla Stout.