BBC website and Prescott coverage

[Dom Tuk]

BBC news and its website have very little or no information about the Prescott affair. Does it not think that the deputy PM disclosing state secrets to his floozie is a matter concerning its license fee payers?

[PhilBy]

Are you talking fact here or presumption?

[jno]

wasn't she his secretary? Don't secretaries usually have access to their bosses' business? Is this news?

'Little or no information' - weasel words; talking about 'no information' is no more than a smear and unworthy, DT. Enter Prescott in the BBC's search engine and you'll get information.

[brionon]

All he did was have a Fling. Are you perfect ?

[gary baldy]

This is hardly news!

Middle age man has affair!
HOLD THE FRONT PAGE!


"Those without sin cast the first stone"

[smudge]

Apparently, his 'diary' secretary is about to spill the beans to Max Clifford - you can read all about it then!

[sp1814]

Dom

The bigger story is the prisons and the NHS. Jonny's dalliances are a trifling matter which is of no national importance, no matter how much you may or may not despise the Labour government.

There's no BBC bias.

[littleoldme]

a) How do we know whether or not he disclosed any "state secrets"?

b) As jno<./b> alludes to, if she was his secretary, wouldn't she know most of them already?

c) Isn't there more important news around? If you want to stick your knife in to a couple of cabinet ministers, I'd have thought both Charles Clarke and Patricia Hewitt were way ahead of Prescott in the queue.

[littleoldme]

Whoops. Bu99ered up me HTML. I blame Tony Blair.

[sandbach99]

Helps when daughter-in-law works for BBC political team and son is friendly with BBC executives having been a senior BBC journalist.