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| Paul Revoir heads for pastures new – BBC PRs distraught | Paul Revoir heads for pastures new – BBC PRs distraught |
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| Broadcasting PRs, and particularly those at the BBC, can breathe a sigh of relief – Daily Mail TV correspondent Paul Revoir is bidding au … (seriously? Ed), is leaving the paper after nearly seven years. Like all Mail specialist reporters, Revoir has had the nigh on impossible task of remaining on speaking terms with industry contacts while serving up his overlords' required diet of outrage at BBC left-wing bias (actually, pretty much everything the BBC does) – along with regular beastings for the TV industry generally over repeats, on-screen sleaze, off-screen sleaze, repeats … you know the drill. And how Paul suffered for his art over the years, at times copping flak for Mail articles that weren't even under his byline. There was the run-in with Jay Hunt at an industry drinks bash after the Mail's notorious "Dumbed down blonde to run BBC1" headline, and another time when a frank exchange of words with Paul Jackson about the Mail's I'm a Celebrity coverage at a Soho Hotel press launch ended with the ITV entertainment boss calling him a word that rhymes with "banker". However, Paul will always have the honour of having a journalistic ploy named after him – then culture secretary Jeremy Hunt once told an RTS Cambridge convention he wasn't going to be lured into a "Paul Revoir-style" trap – ie encouraged to make a negative comment about the BBC, thus providing a handy Mail page lead. Monkey reckons it's a safe bet he won't be Tony Hall's next big hire. We hear Paul and his trademark brown suit are heading abroad. | Broadcasting PRs, and particularly those at the BBC, can breathe a sigh of relief – Daily Mail TV correspondent Paul Revoir is bidding au … (seriously? Ed), is leaving the paper after nearly seven years. Like all Mail specialist reporters, Revoir has had the nigh on impossible task of remaining on speaking terms with industry contacts while serving up his overlords' required diet of outrage at BBC left-wing bias (actually, pretty much everything the BBC does) – along with regular beastings for the TV industry generally over repeats, on-screen sleaze, off-screen sleaze, repeats … you know the drill. And how Paul suffered for his art over the years, at times copping flak for Mail articles that weren't even under his byline. There was the run-in with Jay Hunt at an industry drinks bash after the Mail's notorious "Dumbed down blonde to run BBC1" headline, and another time when a frank exchange of words with Paul Jackson about the Mail's I'm a Celebrity coverage at a Soho Hotel press launch ended with the ITV entertainment boss calling him a word that rhymes with "banker". However, Paul will always have the honour of having a journalistic ploy named after him – then culture secretary Jeremy Hunt once told an RTS Cambridge convention he wasn't going to be lured into a "Paul Revoir-style" trap – ie encouraged to make a negative comment about the BBC, thus providing a handy Mail page lead. Monkey reckons it's a safe bet he won't be Tony Hall's next big hire. We hear Paul and his trademark brown suit are heading abroad. |
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