robert peston

[Badgers]

His name is Robert Poulson

 

[HackneyE9]

I don't have a source but I recognise the strategies stammerers use to overcome their problem.

Btw, he used to edit The Spectator iirc.

Judgement reserved, if it's just your theory, I"m afraid.

As for the Pravda thing - well, exactly - is that what journos are supposed to be for, official outlets for those in power?

He didn't edit the Speccie. He used to write a poxy little column for the New Statesman, however.

With him, Nick Robinson and Frank Gardener, there's far too much "cult of the invididual" with BBC TV, IMO. And at the risk of turning into an old fogey, I hate it when the anchor asks the hack something, and they begin, as they now always do, "Yeah, well, John/Jeremy/Huw/Sarah"....stop being so bloody sloppy and blokeish.

 

[HackneyE9]

Peston on Peston's silly voice

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article4926205.ece

Makes no mention of stammer. Does refer to himself in the third person, though, so I think I'm back on safe ground thinking him a priviliged posh twat.

 

[corporate whore]

As for the Pravda thing - well, exactly - is that what journos are supposed to be for, official outlets for those in power?

No, but I doubt many journalists would have passed up the chance to be ahead on a story as big as this if it landed in their lap.

Which it did, 'cos he works for the BBC, whom a lot of people turn to in times of crisis for the facts. The government knows this.

Peston's being used by the government and the BBC IMO.

Of course, we wouldn't be talking about Peston if Stephanie Flanders wasn't on maternity leave - this would be her story, on her blog and her ear being tapped by HM Govt.

 

[HackneyE9]

Stephanie Flanders - another mega-posho. What is it with the Beeb?

 

[corporate whore]

It never changes, and never will.

 

[TomPaine]

Looks like the Tories are in a spot of bother:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/therepor...8/10/rothschild_v_osborne.html#commentsanchor

TomPaine

 

[nino_savatte]

Stephanie Flanders - another mega-posho. What is it with the Beeb?

Did you know that her father was one half of Flanders and Swan?

I theng you.

 

[nino_savatte]

Judgement reserved, if it's just your theory, I"m afraid.

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Ah, but it isn't my "theory": it's a common technique that speech therapists use to help stammerers. If you don't believe me, have a word with your local speech therapist.

 

[nino_savatte]

Stammering

Wikipedia: it was the best I could do.

Fluency shaping therapy

Fluency shaping therapy, also known as "speak more fluently", "prolonged speech" or "connected speech", trains stutterers to speak fluently by controlling their breathing, phonation, and articulation (lips, jaw, and tongue). It is based on operant conditioning techniques.[34]

Stutterers are trained to reduce their speaking rate by stretching vowels and consonants, and using other fluency techniques such as continuous airflow and soft speech contacts. The result is very slow, monotonic, but fluent speech used only in the speech clinic. After the stutterer masters these fluency skills, the speaking rate and intonation are increased gradually. This more normal-sounding, fluent speech is then transferred to daily life outside the speech clinic, though lack of speech naturalness at the end of treatment remains a frequent criticism. Fluency shaping approaches are often taught in intensive group therapy programs, which may take two to three weeks to complete, but more recently the Camperdown program, using a much shorter schedule, has been shown to be effective.[35]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stammering#Fluency_shaping_therapy

Peston certainly stretches his vowels.

 

[HackneyE9]

It never changes, and never will.

I've got rather depressed about the state of the back-scratching, Oxbridge, north London state of broadsheet/broadcast/BBC journalism of late.

Or maybe I've just had my eyes opened to it. Mabye that's for another thread.

Meanwhile, surely the story with this Osborne/"Nat" Rothschild (as both Peston and Robinson referred to him today, I notice)/Mandelson/Corfu thing is that the government is a permanent class, who wine and dine together. If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it, as someone I once voted for once said.

As for the stammering, Nino first of all you started stating baldly he was a stammerer, made us all feel guilty, now it's simply sounds a bit like how some speech therapist you once knew would advise to someone to speak. Until proved otherwise, to me he sounds like a posh twat who's exaggerating the "eeer.....yeaaaaaaah"s to make himself sound even more posh and condesceding.

 

[corporate whore]

I've got rather depressed about the state of the back-scratching, Oxbridge, north London state of broadsheet/broadcast/BBC journalism of late.

Or maybe I've just had my eyes opened to it. Mabye that's for another thread.

There's so much importance placed on education within the media industry. When a job is filled, the internal announcement of the new hire usually details the person's educational history - where, when, what - like it really matters.