Last week, Jon Snow’s weekend jaunt to Glastonbury came back to haunt him when a snap happy reveller shared a post on social media alleging that the Channel 4 presenter had joined in a chant of ‘f— the Tories’. While Snow tells Steerpike that he has ‘no recollection’ (a politician’s answer if ever there were one) of what he said or did at the music festival, his fellow broadcasters are less than impressed.
Writing in the Sunday Times, Andrew Marr says that had he said such a thing, he ‘would be out on my oversized ear before you could say Krishnan Guru-Murthy’. What’s more, the BBC presenter has had doubts for some time over whether Snow is ‘to his boots, a naturally Ukip kind of fellow’. Still, if Snow did say it, Marr says at least it fits with Channel 4’s new niche:
‘But, anyway, Channel 4 News isn’t the BBC. It has found its own niche. It is of course unsettling to some of us that Jon is still so exuberant at his advanced age. (I used to love Glasto, but these days I find myself more often at the Wigmore Hall — Wigmo! — listening to late Shostakovich quartets.) One lesson: at Glasto or at Wigmo we are all vulnerable to the friendly bloke beside us with a mobile phone. We live in a world of ten million TV cameras.’
Claws out…
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