Simon Wynne

Former Media Portfolio Manager BBC Radio 1 and BBC Three, PD of IRG Radio. Lover of wine, freelance broadcaster and Director of CCRM CIC. Views my own.

[Simon Wynne @Simwyn]

@StewartPurvis It’s absolutely shocking that this ‘attitude’ may have well have gone some way to the undermine the checks and balances we have to protect impartiality and challenge disinformation. In light of the events in the past week, this is urgently and desperately needed.

[Simon Wynne @Simwyn]

@rogermosey @FraserNelson I wonder which of the UK politicians will claim ‘fake news’ first.

[Simon Wynne @Simwyn]

@davidyelland @GBNEWS @Ofcom I was thinking the same thing sadly.

[Roger Mosey @rogermosey]

Michael Grade has been on the right side of most of the big debates in broadcasting. But he’s wrong now about the #BBC and @GBNEWS, and @Ofcom’s regulation of big tech is way too slow. My piece for the @spectator.

https://t.co/lliSxIb8f6

[Simon Wynne @Simwyn]

@campbellclaret Maybe they think that by looking at the right more ‘favourably’ they will somehow magic up a stay of execution if the polls are correct. As a former and proud BBC person, I can’t quite understand what I hear and see coming out of the newsrooms. It’s sad and self fulfilling.

[Simon Wynne @Simwyn]

@christopherhope @TorstenBell @GBNEWS I don’t steal my nephew’s Beano for political insight

[Simon Wynne @Simwyn]

@PeterStefanovi2 This has aged VERY WELL.

[Simon Wynne @Simwyn]

@currys @jimdarrah908 @BekoUK When you get a second identical autogenerated message from Currys, it becomes clear that they don’t really give a shit really. Sad but true.

[Simon Wynne @Simwyn]

@AndyBurnhamGM @LeeAndersonMP_ It’s real bovver boot mentality here and pretty disgusting. I think the wheels are beginning to fall off the bus.

[tayz🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @tayzthecreator]

Absolutely unreal sideburn action from Dafydd Iwan in this 1972 interview

[Simon Wynne @Simwyn]

@campbellclaret @Ofcom Best seeing the back of Grade. A great creative lead but a pretty lousy chair of Ofcom it would appear. The new Chair has the final opportunity to address this before Ofcom publicly executes itself.

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Michael Grade doing the rounds today pontificating about reality TV. Can someone please ask how and why he allowed GB News to become the personal propaganda machine for Nigel Farage when he was chair of @Ofcom ?

[Simon Wynne @Simwyn]

@MaxFRobespierre Andrew is an irrelevance. Someone whose opinion used to matter but no more. In recent years his credibility has been blown to pieces.

[Phil Rostron ⚽️👍🍻 @bigphil321]

Bloody hell, this hit home 💙💙💙😢😢😢

[Simon Wynne @Simwyn]

@mrsDugskullery I heard his introduction into his Sunday programme on Sky yesterday and it was a amateurish as his interviewing. I used to give him some time of day a few years ago before he decided to adopt a biased agenda. Remember the Peter principle…

[Simon Wynne @Simwyn]

@arusbridger I’ve frequently commented that the @Ofcom approach to GB News and Farage would end in tears. I hope to god that the powers-that-be have their Teflon coated bullet protective gear at the ready if investigations dig up any serious and questionable allegations.

[Simon Wynne @Simwyn]

@supertanskiii Classic!

[Simon Wynne @Simwyn]

@Haggis_UK Staff bonuses at Sky by look of things. All of this opinion being passed off as fact is just appalling journalism. Great for engagement, clicks and traffic, devastating for democracy. Laws need to change for regulating so called news channels.

[Simon Wynne @Simwyn]

@RhysWilliamsTV @itvnews Labour deserved to lose after their handling of health in the North. Having said that the media clearly has a bias against Starmer whether for clickbait, headlines or abject bias. It can’t be denied. If it’s to harness engagement through outrage, then it’s as good as bias.

[Simon Wynne @Simwyn]

@WillHayCardiff Not necessarily Morgan herself in the North as the rot began years before. Chronically failed hospitals all around, death in corridors, whilst 20mph and tourism tax appeared a priority. Plaid will have to quickly get a grip on health or Wales is toast.