The James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture: Jeremy Paxman

Jeremy Paxman is a modern broadcasting legend (although he would snort at the description). Presenter of BBC TWO's Newsnight since 1989, he is best-known for his sometimes fearsome interrogation of politicians. In this year's MacTaggart Lecture he will tackle the subject of Power, Politics and the Media. He will examine the role and responsibility of television in combatting public cynicism about politics and will explore the way forward for an industry undergoing a crisis of trust.

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[montyetc]

Long live Jeremy Paxman: the British media's voice of sanity!

[queenban]

anyone who writes on here is contributing to irony..... including me.

[word2urmuva]

Haha, stick your red button up your fucking arse!

[helen2333]

Paxo looks like he's having a breakdown.

Calm down dear, it's only a lecture.

[vikramkrishnan]

QI is another one

[hipflasks]

one of the few reasons I'm still in the UK, what a sad state of affairs.

[capmodesty]

i agree with him completely, the bbc fails to make any programmes i wish to watch anymore (aside from Top Gear). This is why i won't get a tv licence for my bedroom,because i only watch one show so i'll go through to the main room to watch it with my Flatmates and not have to pay a ludicrous amount of money to watch the one programme the BBC makes that i want to watch.

[CyrusGuitar]

If the BBC in general had the integrity and intelligence of Paxman then i would gladly tune in and even pay the license fee. As it is, I do not watch TV, i only download the occassional show like Top Gear and would never pay a license fee. The sooner the BBC dies the better, television as we know it will be dead in a few years, the internet will replace it entirely.

[mickswann]

Most people I know refer to "mainstream media" with an air of disdain. I think that we have all become far too aware that the media is, in the case of commercial stations, a corporate venture and, in the case of the BBC, little other than state propaganda.

People are flocking to the alternative media because no-one believes the BBC anymore, we've caught them lying too many times.