Leekbrookgull
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Yes like many i am sorry about his personal issues,however and maybe its me ? Just find him smug,touch of arrogance. Again just me but find BBC,s Laura 
?? a better watch. 
?? a better watch. 
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ITV and Robert Preston.
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Paul Reids Sock
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At the risk of being flamed/accused of ignorance - who is Robert Preston and what has happened?
I did a google search and there are loads of them!
I did a google search and there are loads of them!
drew
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Peston
I don't like Peston. He is rather smug but I could cope with that if he knew what he was talking about. His total dumbing down and misreporting of the financial crisis was when I stopped listening to anything he said. A good fit for ITV though as their news output is appalling.
Bob!
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Yes like many i am sorry about his personal issues,however and maybe its me ? Just find him smug,touch of arrogance. Again just me but find BBC,s Laura
Nope.
Peston annoys with his contrived intonations.
Laura *Kussenburg*? annoys with the 'I know something you don't' smugness
Leekbrookgull
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Would you please accept my full apology,as i always thought it was Preston and not Peston. However still not a fan. Too clever by half.
Leekbrookgull
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Thats her Bob,why can't they just report the News ?
Easy 10
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Lower West Stander
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Financial journalists are just a bunch of clueless wordsmiths - equivalent of tabloid journalists on general news. I found both Peston and Kuenssburg's reporting of the financial crisis to be scarily inaccurate.
Neither carry the remotest level of respect in the financial world - no one in authority will talk to them.
Now Jim Cramer......
Leekbrookgull
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Plus he slowly seems to be recovering his voice.
That and her Bobby Robson style mouth.
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His colleagues and contemporaries gave him several awards for his reporting of the financial crisis, including forseeing the Northern Rock crash. What was wrong with his reporting?
Laura Kuenssberg's reporting on the other hand... Jesus wept.
Machiavelli
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I like Peston. He's not a consummate performer and, at times, struggles to communicate. His knowledge of economics and business is extremely impressive. He was right at the forefront when reporting about the financial crisis, after a long time digging into the meteoric rise of the UK banking and wider financial sector. No other prominent journalists came near him on this front. I like listening to what he says. A bad fit for ITV as they're not much cop (C4 News especially, and bits of the BBC output is much better), but he's the main man there and has carved out a number of good roles/heavyweight political shows in his brief.
I guess you and I differ on Peston.
highflyer
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I quite like Kuenssburg, and I'm very very glad Peston has moved to a channel I rarely watch.
Paul Mason (Channel 4) is a cut above in my opinion. He really doesn't follow the herd, he has his own contacts (so doesn't just rely on repeating the line being fed by the bankers PR machines) and does his own thinking.
Many of those in the 'financial world' need to stop being so arrogant and if they think they are being misrepresented by journalists start to think about how they might communicate with a little more clarity and a lot more humility. It's become pretty clear most of them have no idea what is going on most of the time either.
Meade's Ball
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I watched it accidentally t'other day and sniggered lightly at the subtitle during the news of "London Mayor Doris Johnson..."
Machiavelli
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Agree with you on Mason, but not on Peston. Mason is an anti-capitalist, by the way.