29-09-2023, 11:56 AM
(28-09-2023, 10:51 PM)London Lite Wrote: Claims from Popbitch, so I'd be cautious about the accuracy of them.Although the stuff Popbitch reports does tend to be fairly accurate.
They allege that Dan Wootton was told on talkback to reign Laurence Fox in which he didn't, then an apology was drafted which Dan refused to read on-air by skipping it on the autocue. They then allege senior management called Dan to get him to apologise and still refused.
If that really is the case, then there are grounds for dismissal.
If it is the true then it does make sense why this was what ended his time at GB News.
One thing though - he did apologise online afterwards (even though that might have been less sincere than it first seemed) so obviously was talked into it, or paniced, once off air.
There's a phrase he probably knows from his Fleet Street days - reverse ferret