The BBC clearly enjoyed Dominic Cummings’s testimony yesterday, running his seven-hour appearance uninterrupted in full on its channels and writing multiple stories with headlines such as ‘The most explosive claims’ and ‘Claims cannot easily be dismissed’. Among the many targets who suffered Cummings’s wrath were members of the media who he declares were driven ‘mad’ after he ‘essentially stopped talking to almost all journalists almost all the time’ in 2020.
So Mr S is sure that it was just a coincidence that the BBC chose to mute Cummings and do a voiceover just as the former aide explained the one exception to this rule was the Corporation’s own political editor. Cummings told the committee ‘the main person I really spoke to in the whole of 2020 was Laura Kuenssberg at the BBC, because the BBC has a special position in the country during a crisis’ and adding that he gave ‘guidance to her on specific stories’.
He told the committee he spoke to Kuenssberg once every three or four weeks and used one example from March 2020 when pictures were circulated of tanks near London which sparked rumours that the capital was about to go into lockdown. He said he told Kuenssberg it was not going to happen which meant the BBC did not report it as a story.
Of course BBC viewers were denied hearing this at the time but, fortunately, the Beeb’s Twitter account was on hand to share the clip with social media users — just in case any conspiracy theorists start getting carried away…
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