Face Mics

[davebro]

Why are reporters & interviewees suddenly using those ridiculous pink blobby face mics - what happened to the unobtrusive lapel mics?

[bhg481]

I think it's to cut out the idiots shouting in the background.

[davebro]

Could be

[gulliver1]

bhg, Spot on.

[Peter Pedant]

they look like unsightly zits
I wondered if it were the wind and the shouting

and by wind.... I dont mean the speeches they were making hur hur hur

[andy-hughes]

I cannot for the life of me understand why tv companies persist in interviewing MP's in that outside bearpit near the Commons, with the great unwashed braying nonsense at loud volumes, it's utterly without dignity, and it's also completely without reason, as far as I can see.

Will they persist in December when freezing rain could be adding to the ambiance?

[davebro]

They just had two women interviewees on & the mics were hanging round their necks, Could hardly hear them.

[Gromit]

It is a Beep Beep See ploy to discredit Conservatives and Brexiteers, and to make them look like Muppets.

Totally unnecessary, everyone has already realised they are Muppets.

[anotheoldgit]

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/sep/03/headset-mics-latest-tactic-in-tv-newss-battle-with-brexit-protests

/// with the House of Commons Speaker, John Bercow, complaining to the police about a “regular coterie of burly white men who are effectively targeting and denouncing members whom they recognise and dislike”. ///

"A regular coterie of burly white men", eh?

What has the colour of their skin got to do with it, how racist is that?

[Baldric]

You of all people should know AOG>

[Mamyalynne]

Gromit, noooo - don't you start with the 'Beep Beep' for goodness sake.

[THECORBYLOON]

What Bercow said (taken from another report) was, "“There seems to be a pattern here of a regular coterie of burly white men who are effectively targeting and denouncing members whom they recognise and dislike – most notably female and those from ethnic minority backgrounds.”"

His description of the men as "white" is reasonable since he was pointing out the targets were notably female and from ethnic minority backgrounds and there appears to be a racist element to those attacks.

[anotheoldgit]

Baldric

/// You of all people should know AOG> ///

Just trying to educate those who would be playing the race card in huge numbers had he had said:

"complaining to the police about a “regular coterie of burly Black men who are effectively targeting and denouncing members whom they recognise and dislike”. ///

[SparklyKid]

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I cannot for the life of me understand why tv companies persist in interviewing MP's in that outside bearpit near the Commons, with the great unwashed braying nonsense at loud volumes, it's utterly without dignity, and it's also completely without reason, as far as I can see.

Will they persist in December when freezing rain could be adding to the ambiance?

19:39 Tue 03rd Sep 2019


Whoops AMBIENCE, almost as bad as the "so" rule.

[anotheoldgit]

THECORBYLOON

It's a wonder that the Guardian failed to pick up on that, perhaps you will be good enough to post the link where it says that?

[Mamyalynne]

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1069452/john-bercow-house-of-commons-mps-harassment-anna-soubry-parliament

[Baldric]

Sparkly
How could you point out an AH slip up, I'll have you know he was taught to type, though at times it is difficult to believe to be honest ;o)

[THECORBYLOON]

ANOTHEOLDGIT , https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1069452/john-bercow-house-of-commons-mps-harassment-anna-soubry-parliament/amp

[SparklyKid]

Hi Baldric, could not resist it,lol.

[anotheoldgit]

/// It came a day after Tory MP Anna Soubry was called a Nazi and taunted by a mob chanting "liar, liar" during a TV interview on College Green. ///

January 9th old news it would seem.

But all politicians are open for verbal abuse, why should Anna Soubry be expected to be treated any differently by the Nasty Left? Hasn't Boris Johnson been called a fascist and President Trump much worse?

I see no evidence whatsoever, to prove that Ethnic Minority politicians have been racially abused, by Burly White Men.

[THECORBYLOON]

'Two protestors who called Anna Soubry MP a Nazi, a traitor and a fascist have been sentenced today (22 July).

James Goddard, 30, and Brian Phillips, 55, accepted that they talked to the Nottinghamshire MP as she walked to and from the Houses of Parliament on 7 January but claimed that their behaviour had been reasonable.

At their trial on Friday 19 July they changed their pleas and admitted causing her harassment, alarm or distress.

Goddard also admitted a second offence of racially abusing a police constable who he swore at and said was “not even British” because he spoke English with an accent.'

Given that one of them racially abused a policeman, it is not difficult to believe MPs were also targets due to their ethnicities.