The Real Snow and the Storm; He Contemplated Shooting Idi Amin and Locked Horns with Alastair Campbell. It's Little Wonder That Jon Snow Never Wanted to Become a Bbc Man. By Anne Simpson
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There is a curious omission in Jon Snow's Shooting History and it concerns his five-star gladiatorial combat with Alastair Campbell when, with all guns blazing, the prime minister's former director of communications invaded the Channel 4 News studio as Snow was conducting a live interview with a BBC governor about the Hutton report. "A mugging is quite a good way to describe the Campbell incident," reflects Snow as he wolfs down a Caesar salad between signing sessions for the book he has subtitled, A Personal Journey.
"I was facing the video screen, talking to Dame Pauline Neville- Jones, my back to the empty guest chair on the other side of the desk, and suddenly in my earpiece I heard that Campbell had entered the building uninvited and wanted to do an interview. Well, we'd been trying to get Campbell for ages and had got nowhere with the requests. But when somebody enters your air space like that your hackles rise."See the full content of this document
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The Real Snow and the Storm; He Contemplated Shooting Idi Amin and Locked Horns with Alastair Campbell. It's Little Wonder That Jon Snow Never Wanted to Become a Bbc Man. By Anne Simpson
The fact Campbell chose award-winning Channel 4 News for his volcanic outburst is significant. He was, of course, at war with the BBC and Snow, one of Britain's most respected broadcasters, has never thought of himself as a BBC man, believing he would have sunk there without trace. Why? "I think it's difficult for a slightly awkward customer to survive in its institutio...
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