Steve Coogan v Paul McMullan Row on Newsnight - NOTW Phone Hacking *MUST WATCH*

In this video, comic & actor Steve Coogan is discussing hacking on Newsnight, with Greg Dyke & Paul McMullen.

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The fireworks have suddenly gone off on Newsnight.

Paul McMullen, who was Deputy Features editor at the News of the World from 1994 to 2001, got a few seconds into lamenting the potential impact of the hacking scandal on the role of the tabloid press in British democracy before Greg Dyke, former director general of BBC, and Steve Coogan launched a series of broadsides against him.

Coogan told him:

"I think you are a walking PR disaster for the tabloids because you don't come across in a sympathetic way."

"Your come across as a risible individual."

Greg Dyke said:

"You are absolutely nothing to do with a decent press and a free democracy."

McMullen attempted to fight back, asking Coogan how many "Murdoch movies" he had appeared in, claiming that the actor had a publicist who spent their time trying to get Coogan in the press.

He said:

"You spend your time trying to get in the press. How many Murdoch movies have you been in? You take five million quid a movie and then you bleet on."

Angered by McMullen's assertion that he was a journalist, Steve Coogan told him:

"You're not a journalist. You know you are not."

5 star television.

Thanks to the BBC.

Friday 8th July 2011

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  News & Politics

[PenguinEighty8]

Has anyone thought that the only reason McMullen is peddling this noxious crap is to up his own profile? He's got a Pub in Dover that could do with more punters coming in and what better way to get his profile around that by acting as agent provocateur.

[NOTWPhoneHacking]

McMullen is literally dicing with death. He knows there are dark forces that would love to see him off''ed.

So as much as the guy is a morose prick, he is someone who knows the score inside & out - thus he needs to stay alive & talking.

[BooJoMan]

'Scum, sub human scum'

[Charlotte Lucy]

You cannot generalise like that. Yes, there are people who buy them and yes, they are feeding into it, but is it the entirety of the population of Britain? Are we all that ignorant? I think not.

[Tom Wellman]

'12 FOOT HIGH CHICKENS!'

[Ben Garman]

Sadly I think a majority are.

[Bobster Bobbeston]

I'm sorry "angry" Coogan is just Alan...and at 2:02 when he says "and it's absolute BS" that is pure Alan

[Ian Miles]

McMullen makes no distinction between investgative journalism, like the guys who found out about watergate. But he cannot understand that tapping anyones phones is not in the public interest and is simply to sell papers and the huge chip he has. If someone is wealthy then they are fair game no matter what.

[madcapoperator]

Did I ever at one point say i hated him? and with that I ask you, am i not allowed to point hypocrisy when I see it? Or should I just shut up and wait for the Alan Partridge movie? (which btw i am really looking forward to)

[Ciaran Lawless]

Would you have Steve Coogan go back in time to cancel those shows because you seem to think he was fully aware of this scandal and the immoral way these journalists were behaving (journalists that have nothing to do with his career with sky). He is being more than reasonable by pointing out the ridiculous decisions made by these journalists. Don't hate on him for no good reason. His involvement with Sky Arts had nothing to do with this whole thing so he can complain all he wants.

[madcapoperator]

The sheer irony of coogan's statements are incredible. Who produced your last show mate? Oh yeah it was Sky Arts: A Murdoch owned channel. I'm not opposed to biting the hand that feeds, but coogan seems to literally want to rip it off...This is in no way a defense of McMullan in any way but merely pointing out coogans own contradictions between what he says and what he does and just another celebrity jumping on the 'press are bad, mmkay' bandwagon.

[Spillage66]

I think the post meant, that the people of the UK who buy this shit, not British people in general. I wouldn't touch the tabloids, or talk to the cunts who buy them.

[rothkoaintdead]

they are all entertainers. familiarity breeds contempt.