Staying home in Spain โday 1- donโt know what Iโll do by day 15โ
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Ben de Pear
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Ben de Pear
@bendepear
TV Journalist and Executive Producer, founder @Basement_Films. Former Editor of Channel 4 News. Instagram.com/bendepear @bendepear.bsky.social
Joined June 2009
- Then stop behaving like @realDonaldTrump with the press and media. Put your leader @BorisJohnson alongside the other leaders and stop playing games. Donโt refuse & then threaten our license itโs a slippery slope. All the parties complain about us but theyโre here #ClimateDebateThis is not a presidential election. @bendepear
- As the home of the original @FactCheck in the UK we need to point out โfactcheckUKโ has nothing to do with @Channel4News it is the renamed twitter account of @CCHQPress- @Conservatives no political party should be trying to cloak themselves in the guise of independent journalists.@jeremycorbyn promised to respect the result of the referendum in 2017. Since then he's worked to block Brexit #GetBrexitDone #BackBoris
- We @Channel4News requested a question to the Prime Minister in this press conference about the party last year and the press teamโs reaction on the video but I am afraid that has been rejected by the @10DowningStreet press team we were going to ask about
- The @10DowningStreet press office have granted @theresa_may interviews to 20 @BBCNews journalists during conference; none for @Channel4News or @5_News and there is solidarity across broadcasters that this is a dangerous precedentThatcher, Major, Blair, Brown, Cameron, May. For 29 years at @Channel4News I have interviewed the @10DowningStreet Prime Minister of the day at their party conference - until today. @theresa_may has refused to appear on @Channel4News tonight; unprecedented & disappointing
00:00 - We had @rustyrockets on @Channel4News once to discuss UK drug legislation; afterwards he called to say he required final editorial approval of his interview, something I couldnโt give. He was furious, called me a โcโ & swore he would destroy me & us. It was his last appearance
00:00 - $725 million is the settlement in America - but @facebook @Meta was used to directly bombard c. 7 million with 1 billion Facebook ads grossly distorting the truth in the last weeks of #brexit by @Dominic2306 - he credits these ads as crucial see them here parliament.uk/globalassets/dโฆ
- Great speech; being @Channel4News was a battle to tell the truth without being attacked. But the most frightening time was Robbie Gibbโs press office banning us from government access because weโd reported #Windrush before other TV; โyou keep banging on about it and no-one caresโEmily Maitlis refers to 'Tory cronyism at heart of the BBC' in Edinburgh TV Festival lecture news.sky.com/story/emily-maโฆ
- We were hoping to ask the PM about the lockdown at his speech but space for journalists was limited & we werenโt invited. We also asked for the Health Sec. to appear on the programe tonight but were told he was not available..he has not been for @Channel4News for more than 3 week
00:00 - For only 2nd time in 40 years at @Conservatives conference a leader who is also PM is not doing a @Channel4News interview on a day they release details of their proposed #Brexit deal. Millions of c4 TV & digital viewers will be denied @BorisJohnson being scrutinised by @krishgm
- Weโre hoping to speak to @GavinWilliamson tonight on @Channel4News about his moves to defend free speech on university campuses, unless he โno platformsโ himself again as he has done for 18 months as Education Secretary. Please come & discuss โunacceptable silencing & censoringโ
- We hope to resolve our access ban from Brexit Party events ASAP. We were unaware of the 6-week ban until last Thursday when we broadcast this Nigel Farage investigation, revealing he had been bankrolled by ยฃ450k from Arron Banks. Until then we had full access, including to FarageNigel Farage funding secrets revealed - Channel 4 News investigation tonight at 7pm
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