View Full Version : Alastair Stewart steps down from ITV News "Racist Ape Tweet"
arista
29-01-2020, 04:55 PM
Great News for all the Female workers
this news reader is very touchy and some females
have said he goes to far.
He is Going because
"errors of judgement in his use of social media"
[today his Twitter account appeared blank
and he said in a statement: 'It was a misjudgement which I regret,
but it’s been a privilege to bring the news
to households throughout the UK for the past 40 years.']
Also he is Greedy 67 year old
not allowing others to do the main daytime news.
https://news.sky.com/story/alastair-stewart-steps-down-as-itv-news-presenter-over-errors-of-judgement-11921001
https://e3.365dm.com/20/01/768x432/skynews-alastair-stewart-itv-news_4905552.jpg?bypass-service-worker&20200129165147
[More recently, the 67-year-old has worked
as a part-time freelance presenter,
mainly on the lunchtime news and weekend programmes.]
Marsh.
29-01-2020, 04:57 PM
Alistair Stewart has been touching his colleagues up? D:
Cherie
29-01-2020, 05:16 PM
Crikey, no one is immune
Crikey, no one is immune
He's got coronavirus?
arista
29-01-2020, 05:21 PM
He's got coronavirus?
No he posted bad stuff on his twitter
now removed
LaLaLand
29-01-2020, 05:27 PM
Bring back Trevor McDonald (but he wouldn’t do it anyway because he hates Tom Bradby lol)
Marsh.
29-01-2020, 06:23 PM
Just read the twitter spat. Some twitter twat getting into a twitter argument over something they knew nothing about then cried "bullying" when proven wrong.
Kazanne
29-01-2020, 06:29 PM
Great News for all the Female workers
this news reader is very touchy and some females
have said he goes to far.
He is Going because
"errors of judgement in his use of social media"
[today his Twitter account appeared blank
and he said in a statement: 'It was a misjudgement which I regret,
but it’s been a privilege to bring the news
to households throughout the UK for the past 40 years.']
Also he is Greedy 67 year old
not allowing others to do the main daytime news.
https://news.sky.com/story/alastair-stewart-steps-down-as-itv-news-presenter-over-errors-of-judgement-11921001
https://e3.365dm.com/20/01/768x432/skynews-alastair-stewart-itv-news_4905552.jpg?bypass-service-worker&20200129165147
[More recently, the 67-year-old has worked
as a part-time freelance presenter,
mainly on the lunchtime news and weekend programmes.]
Oh heck,I like him aswell, not read it all properly yet but knew something was up by some FB posts.
Marsh.
29-01-2020, 06:45 PM
Can I ask about the touching female colleagues thing?
Is that actually a story or has arista made that up?
He’s been done for drink driving quite a few times, I know that much. He got sacked from Police Camera Action for it.
arista
29-01-2020, 07:10 PM
Can I ask about the touching female colleagues thing?
Is that actually a story or has arista made that up?
Its true
but the female workers
will not yet , go public.
Marsh.
29-01-2020, 07:10 PM
Its true
but the female workers
will not yet , go public.
Have you got a link?
arista
29-01-2020, 07:23 PM
Have you got a link?
No link yet.
Arista is planning to be Stewart's Mr Markle :worry:
No link yet.
So you’re making it up then?
arista
29-01-2020, 09:33 PM
So you’re making it up then?
No
No
So where’s your proof of this alleged sexual assault?
michael21
30-01-2020, 12:25 AM
No link yet.
You need a link as we don't believe you
Mystic Mock
30-01-2020, 12:34 AM
Arista is planning to be Stewart's Mr Markle :worry:
:joker:
Amy Jade
30-01-2020, 01:10 AM
He’s been done for drink driving quite a few times, I know that much. He got sacked from Police Camera Action for it.
what a mess the presenter of that show getting done for drink driving :laugh:
arista
30-01-2020, 01:39 AM
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arista
30-01-2020, 01:40 AM
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Mystic Mock
30-01-2020, 02:03 AM
He shouldn't use words like Ape when debating with a black person imo because obviously it's racist, but also even if he didn't mean it to be aimed at him like that, it's still gonna have people doubt him now which is unfortunate if it's the latter.
arista
30-01-2020, 02:05 AM
He shouldn't use words like Ape when debating with a black person imo because obviously it's racist, but also even if he didn't mean it to be aimed at him like that, it's still gonna have people doubt him now which is unfortunate if it's the latter.
67 year's old
living in the past.
arista
30-01-2020, 02:10 AM
So where’s your proof of this alleged sexual assault?
Hidden for now.
I agree a link is needed
at this time, no one is putting it out.
It appears his Racist Tweet (Now Deleted)
is more important.
It's just like the Danny Baker situation - if you're smart enough to have an arsenal of Measure for Measure quotes at your disposal to use in any given argument, you're smart enough to know that calling a black person an ape as part of said argument isn't going to be construed in the way you intended (assuming his intention wasn't "to be racist", of course)
It's as simple as that
...I read about this yesterday...and really, what MB said above...a tweet has to be actually typed out and sent as well so it’s a very deliberate action...sad way for his career to end but it is what it is if he tweeted it, it’s his own doing...
GoldHeart
30-01-2020, 05:49 PM
It baffles me that people in the public eye especially in important jobs still continue to be offensive, and try to pass it off as a mistake . A news reporter said the N word supposedly by accident on air when talking about Koby Bryan's death.
How did he think people would take a black person being called an ape ??, Rosanne was another idiot who did the same thing and ruined her career. It's their own doing.
They're adults responsible for their own words .
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I hope Alf got his.
bit of a joke that he got fired and Piers is still allowed to spew **** everyday
Cherie
30-01-2020, 06:48 PM
https://news.sky.com/story/man-at-centre-of-alastair-stewart-row-only-wanted-an-apology-11921626
he man whose Twitter exchange is thought to have led to Alastair Stewart's resignation says an apology would have been enough.
On Wednesday, ITN announced that Stewart would be standing down as a presenter of ITV News following "errors of judgement".
It comes after an exchange on Twitter between the 67-year-old and a man called Martin Shapland.
Crimson Dynamo
30-01-2020, 07:05 PM
Great newsreader sadly missed, I met him once a lovely charming man
Enjoy your retirement Alastair
:clap1:
Marsh.
30-01-2020, 09:04 PM
https://news.sky.com/story/man-at-centre-of-alastair-stewart-row-only-wanted-an-apology-11921626
he man whose Twitter exchange is thought to have led to Alastair Stewart's resignation says an apology would have been enough.
On Wednesday, ITN announced that Stewart would be standing down as a presenter of ITV News following "errors of judgement".
It comes after an exchange on Twitter between the 67-year-old and a man called Martin Shapland.
An apology wouldn't have been enough for them at all. That person bombarded itv with tweets.
Twosugars
31-01-2020, 12:06 AM
ITN has emphasised that veteran newsreader Alastair Stewart left the broadcaster over multiple “errors of judgment” in his use of social media – rather a single incident – after supporters of the presenter turned on an individual they blamed for his departure.
Stewart resigned on Wednesday, three weeks after he sent a tweet to a black man including the term “angry ape”. The message, quoting the Shakespeare play Measure for Measure, was sent to political adviser Martin Shapland during a disagreement between the two.
However, an ITN source said: “It was never about a single tweet, it was always errors plural.”
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jan/30/alastair-stewart-itv-departure-regrettable-twitter-row-martin-shapland
Amy Jade
31-01-2020, 01:49 AM
A news reporter said the N word supposedly by accident on air when talking about Koby Bryan's death.
I was following this quite closely and honestly left me SO disappointed to see so many attack the woman who simply stammered her words.
For one, why would she say that live on TV? Secondly saying that word makes zero sense to what she was saying.
She simply fluffed a line and said LA Nakers instead of Lakers, people have slowed down the footage and proved it. Cancel culture on twitter is repulsive.
arista
31-01-2020, 07:52 AM
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Thats no good fella
it ain't up to you
ITV have ruled on this
he is Disgraced and Sacked
I think I'm so sophisticated, cause I'm living my life like a good homosapien
But all around me everybody's multiplying, and thy're walking around like flies man
So I'm no better than the animals sitting in their cages in the zoo man
Because compared to the flowers and the birds and the trees, I am an Apeman
I don't feel safe in this World no more
I don't want to die in a nuclear war
I want to sail away to a distant shore
And make like an Apeman
Cause compared to the Sun that sits in the sky
Compared to the clouds as they roll by
Compared to the bugs and the spiders and flies
I am an Apeman
GoldHeart
31-01-2020, 05:14 PM
I was following this quite closely and honestly left me SO disappointed to see so many attack the woman who simply stammered her words.
For one, why would she say that live on TV? Secondly saying that word makes zero sense to what she was saying.
She simply fluffed a line and said LA Nakers instead of Lakers, people have slowed down the footage and proved it. Cancel culture on twitter is repulsive.
I've seen various other examples of people stammering their words and saying the wrong thing, and even then I still think how did you get that wrong :conf: :facepalm:.
How does she accidentally say the N word instead of Nakers ? how did that slip happen? .
It's not like saying the F bomb or Sh*t , all those words are classed as swearing especially offensive before watershed.
It makes me think behind the scenes at the news room , people are dropping the N word as jokes . It feels like she's been around it .
Remember when Emily called Charley the N word in BB8 , she said it casually then she gasped laughed and was like "omg I just called you that " . But she said her friends called her it , still doesn't excuse it but I think it might be a similar thing with the newsreader.
Shaun
31-01-2020, 07:26 PM
No loss tbh. Every ITN with him sounded like the newsreader from V For Vendetta. More personal opinion and random asides than actual reporting.
GoldHeart
31-01-2020, 07:39 PM
No loss tbh. Every ITN with him sounded like the newsreader from V For Vendetta. More personal opinion and random asides than actual reporting.
A few of them are biased and irritating tbh
A brilliant video on this from the brilliant Youtuber, Voltaire's Ghost.
If you have a spare half hour, give it a watch, sacrifice Emmerdale for it.
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Livia
26-02-2020, 11:05 AM
There are people dying all over the world, Corona virus could end up hitting us all, children being blown to bits in Syria and Yemen, people are dying because they haven't got a drink of clean water... and someone had their feeling hurt by a word.
We live in a modern day witch hunt culture.
Twosugars
26-02-2020, 01:24 PM
There are people dying all over the world, Corona virus could end up hitting us all, children being blown to bits in Syria and Yemen, people are dying because they haven't got a drink of clean water... and someone had their feeling hurt by a word.
Does this relativism apply to antisemitism too?
I see you took a somewhat different view in the Fury thread.
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