Staying home in Spain “day 1- don’t know what I’ll do by day 15’
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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. Don’t refuse & then threaten our license it’s a slippery slope. All the parties complain about us but they’re here #ClimateDebateThis is not a presidential election. @bendepear
- As the home of the original @FactCheck in the UK we need to point out “factcheckUK” 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 team’s 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 couldn’t give. He was furious, called me a “c” & 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/d…
- Great speech; being @Channel4News was a battle to tell the truth without being attacked. But the most frightening time was Robbie Gibb’s press office banning us from government access because we’d reported #Windrush before other TV; “you keep banging on about it and no-one cares”Emily Maitlis refers to 'Tory cronyism at heart of the BBC' in Edinburgh TV Festival lecture news.sky.com/story/emily-ma…
- We were hoping to ask the PM about the lockdown at his speech but space for journalists was limited & we weren’t 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
- We’re hoping to speak to @GavinWilliamson tonight on @Channel4News about his moves to defend free speech on university campuses, unless he ‘no platforms’ himself again as he has done for 18 months as Education Secretary. Please come & discuss “unacceptable silencing & censoring”
- 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 £450k 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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