LBC Chit Chat #9

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LBC spent days, it actually felt like weeks, obsessing about a column in a newspaper. It spent days, again felt like weeks, on hounding an unpaid 83 year old lady on the hearsay of a very, dubious character. It's a bit rich for O'Brien and his lickspittles on other forums whining about too much coverage of Schofield.
 
Steve must be friendly with certain agencies or certain people so won't say anything about schofe other than saying it won't be the same. He'd struggle broadcasting at the moment with that being the main story.

Is Jonathan Shalit involved? Steve was always mentioning him.
 
Yel said:
Steve must be friendly with certain agencies or certain people so won't say anything about schofe other than saying it won't be the same. He'd struggle broadcasting at the moment with that being the main story.

Is Jonathan Shalit involved? Steve was always mentioning him.
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Yes. Can't remember exactly, maybe shalit defending Phillip. He must be their agent.
 
Yel said:
Steve must be friendly with certain agencies or certain people so won't say anything about schofe other than saying it won't be the same. He'd struggle broadcasting at the moment with that being the main story.

Is Jonathan Shalit involved? Steve was always mentioning him.
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When interviewed on TV JS said that "everyone knew" about the relationship.
 
Yel said:
Is Jonathan Shalit involved? Steve was always mentioning him.
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He popped up on either GB News or TalkTV a few days ago and was pretty non-committal about everything. Didn't really add anything to the 'debate'.
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thewittowoo said:
LBC spent days, it actually felt like weeks, obsessing about a column in a newspaper. It spent days, again felt like weeks, on hounding an unpaid 83 year old lady on the hearsay of a very, dubious character. It's a bit rich for O'Brien and his lickspittles on other forums whining about too much coverage of Schofield.
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Can you just flesh out what you're talking about? The column in the paper and the 83 year old ... cheers! 🧐 I wouldn't take too much notice of O'Brien and his hard-of-thinking fanboys like 'Loz' ... First time I heard this character, but he seemed like a regular caller whose Twitter feed James 'loves' ... it was full-on Grange Hill common room bantz.
 
Ndrangheta said:
He popped up on either GB News or TalkTV a few days ago and was pretty non-committal about everything. Didn't really add anything to the 'debate'.
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Can you just flesh out what you're talking about? The column in the paper and the 83 year old ... cheers! 🧐 I wouldn't take too much notice of O'Brien and his hard-of-thinking fanboys like 'Loz' ... First time I heard this character, but he seemed like a regular caller whose Twitter feed James 'loves' ... it was full-on Grange Hill common room bantz.
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Clarkson and Lady Hussey
 
Piff paff puff said:
Yes. Can't remember exactly, maybe shalit defending Phillip. He must be their agent.
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No he's not. Schofield's agents were YMU and they've dropped him. Not sure anyone will touch him with a bargepole at the tent.
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thewittowoo said:
Clarkson and Lady Hussey
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Funny that Carolyn McCall couldn't throw Clarkson and Morgan under the bus quick enough because they upset little Meggy but manages to turn a blind eye to Schofield.
 
thewittowoo said:
LBC spent days, it actually felt like weeks, obsessing about a column in a newspaper. It spent days, again felt like weeks, on hounding an unpaid 83 year old lady on the hearsay of a very, dubious character. It's a bit rich for O'Brien and his lickspittles on other forums whining about too much coverage of Schofield.
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The problem for James is that he can never see beyond his own biases. Hence the reference to "right wing" in a tweet about a scandal around someone who writes for the Guardian and the New Statesman.

James O'Brien on Twitter: "It often falls to the New York Times to shine a powerful light on UK media scandals. And they’re not confined to the right-wing. This is grim. Credit to @brokenbottleboy & @JolyonMaugham for pursuing the story publicly over here." / Twitter
 
Redvers36 said:
The problem for James is that he can never see beyond his own biases. Hence the reference to "right wing" in a tweet about a scandal around someone who writes for the Guardian and the New Statesman.

James O'Brien on Twitter: "It often falls to the New York Times to shine a powerful light on UK media scandals. And they’re not confined to the right-wing. This is grim. Credit to @brokenbottleboy & @JolyonMaugham for pursuing the story publicly over here." / Twitter
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Not sure I follow. But isn't the NYT owned by Murdoch?
 
Tatooine_legend1 said:
Arrgghh, I miss hearing Steve in the morning. Why won't he do a podcast or anything? It was always enjoyable to hear his ramblings about life.
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I think Steve was an LBC or nothing kind of person. His whole schtick was just rambling on about is visits to M&S, Costco, Joe Allens and a spot of gardening. Not sure that would translate into a weekly podcast. Plus he is absolutely useless at technology so unless he had proper studio with producers I'm not sure he could do it.
 
I switched on to James for a few mins this morning, heard a caller mentioning Isabel Oakshott and the leaks from Hancock. James then sighs and says "yeah but she didn't actually do any journalism, she just leaked messages that Hancock had sent" as if James has ever done any investigative work, ever. He just moans about what is wrong, but doesn't do anything about it really. He sells books and gets paid to appear at talks where he talks about what is wrong, but does nothing to fix it.
 
Tatooine_legend1 said:
I switched on to James for a few mins this morning, heard a caller mentioning Isabel Oakshott and the leaks from Hancock. James then sighs and says "yeah but she didn't actually do any journalism, she just leaked messages that Hancock had sent" as if James has ever done any investigative work, ever. He just moans about what is wrong, but doesn't do anything about it really. He sells books and gets paid to appear at talks where he talks about what is wrong, but does nothing to fix it.
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James describing himself as a journalist is a bit of a stretch but he clings onto it.

He did some showbiz reporting and game reviews. That's it. He's spent the rest of his career on LBC just spouting his opinions.
 
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