Isabel Oakeshott Admits “Journalistic Fail" For Not Covering Post Office Scandal Five Years Ago
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- Опубликовано: 10 янв 2024
- TalkTV’s international editor has admitted that she “did not” cover the Post Office scandal story when she was first approached about it in 2019.
Speaking on The Talk, Isabel Oakeshott said she was emailed about the story by a key campaigner in the summer of that year.
When pressed why she didn’t cover it, she said: “There was something that failed to resonate with me. It was too bitty, it didn’t coalesce enough.
“That isn’t an excuse, but had it been a punchier, more professional campaign, this would have been resolved long ago.”
Rishi Sunak on Wednesday announced a new law to exonerate hundreds of Post Office branch managers caught up in the Horizon IT scandal.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said they were victims of “one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in our nation’s history”.
Hundreds of sub-postmasters were convicted of swindling money on the basis of evidence from a flawed IT system.
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The people who committed perjury need to go to prison.
Yes yes yes.
I’m hearing a lot of excuses, backtracking, and backslapping for not looking into a bit of a possible so called non juicy story 🤪
This whole thing illustrates everything that is wrong with this country.
Largely its (in)justice system, run by an 'old boys' club.
Everything? You wish!
@@kurtgodel5236 Government ineptitude, public apathy, protection of the Establishment at all costs, Corporate takeover of our government, Multinational corporation corruption, Backhanders, blatant disdain for the ordinary British person, captivated judiciary, Elitist media ignoring the plight of the working man, etc etc. I could go on.
@@jujutrini8412 That's not even remotely everything.
Not far off everything that's caused what's wrong with this country @@kurtgodel5236
It has taken a tv documentary to bring the real impact of this into the public domain. Suddenly, all our media and politicians have something to say about it. Where were they when good people were being torn down and stamped on?
They were nowhere. It wasn't big enough news for their egotistical futures.
They have been fighting hard against wokeness and for Brexit. Be a bit grateful!
Spot on
Indeed, it is terrifying.
They were also journalists that were supportive of the govt’. Let’s be honest, that was the biggest reason the press showed little interest.
Hundreds arrested, a scandal contiinuing year after year, and the story was "too bitty" for her?! She's a wonderful example of humanity, isn't she? She blames the lack of a slick PR campaign for the victims. The story wasn't covered because, in fact, the journalists did NOT care about it. Total complacency still.
What a terrible excuse from Isabelle she was given the information, and because it wasn't a professional campaign,she ignored it.
To her credit she did admit that, and the others said similar, you can bet if she did see a large story she would have jumped at it, a correct presentation was needed, sadly.
Poor journalists, simples!
Sack Davy,he serves no function in life,totall waste of space
Baroness Monne must be breathing a sigh of relief that this has taken the spotlight off of her dodgy dealings for a while.
Spot on! People have already forgotten her name, which is Mone, not Monne.
TalkTV will have far more Markle stories than Mone or the Post Office scandal next week. The owner is a friend if MPs and businessmen. Not us.
Damanding immunity is an admission of guilt as far as i am concerned , he should be frog marched to the inquiry and he should be prosecuted, Fujitsu need to be held accountable as well as the PO, this is a Disgrace that innocent people have been treated this way and also taken their own lives, this cannot stand and people need to be prosecuted and treated the same way the Postmasters and Postmistresses were treated.😡
I hope Alan Bates turns down any knighthood , he’s above those tawdry honours, look at the people who have received them
I hope he turns down any honours related to the genocidal British Empire.
Damn right.
My first thought exactly.
Is anyone else depressed by these hacks? “Oh, the story wasn’t sexy enough” if ever you needed proof that journalism is entertainment here is it. Absolutely shocking. Story “too bitty” YOUR A JOURNALIST - INVESTIGATE IT!
No, people *love* these hacks, because these hacks tell them all about wokeness, the Brussels bastards, and Megan and Harry that they always needed to hear!
MSM like this channel is a diversion. They work for their corporate mates and politicians.
Yea thats exactly what i thought! To say it wasnt meaty enough and didnt interest them enough is disgusting😡
Too busy with 'woke' and Markle than doing their jobs. The media get a free pass as they say they speak truth to power, but we know they're on the corporates' side. All owned by millionaires.
Private Eye has been talking about it on an almost monthly basis for over ten years. People needed to see it rather than read about it though. We've always been the same. Remember how back in the 60s Play for Today would air on one day and a campaign would start the next day.
Private Eye? Seriously? That paper is almost less patriotic than the Guardian.
@@kurtgodel5236Patriotism is standing up to injustice and pointing out corruption. Good on Private Eye.
Your patriotism seems to be limited to flag waving whilst fleecing the public.
@@kurtgodel5236 what's that got to do with anything?
Journalists and politicians ignored this until the TV drama, they didn't think there were votes or glory for them in it. Now they jump on the bandwagon because it may benefit them.
Peter Hitchens and Private Eye wrote about it years ago.
The BBC did a number of documentaries and Private Eye did most of the heavy lifting from the start. Do you mean the gossipy media that's owned by millionaires?
Not holding my breath nobody at the top will face any comeback
At last someone with a sense of realism and a modicum of common sense!
Quote Oakeshott "I just didn't engage." Probably because she couldn't see any personal gain in it. And this, my friends, sums up the state of British journalism.
£75k seems totally inadequate to me. But I don't think the government(our tax) should be paying out. Fujitsu should be footing the bill. They got paid a lot of money for a flawed system that destroyed lives.
It's amazing how private eye almost single handed, kept with this story for so many years. We as the public needed the emotional connection
It’s because they are “the Little people” that this has been allowed to happen.
Most of them are working class business owners ….and as we all know, they top notch ( journalists included ) sneer at the working man.
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No, it's because neither the Post Office nor Fujitsu are either woke or Brexit-related. Channels like these and other right-wing media are not interested in reporting *real* problems of real people, they are preoccupied with anti-wokeness and anti-Brexit tosh, and with "Megan and Harry".
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Isabel’s excuse as to why she never took notice is weak to say the least.
You are a journalist….its your job to investigate a story…
To expect it to just be handed to you on a plate, all zipped up ready to unpack, is the most outrageous thing I have heard a journalist say.
A more punchier, professional campaign is what she would have wanted….OMG.
YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM….
She would have been better keeping it zipped she can't be trusted by MPS breaking NDE rightly or wrongly about the person who is ever going to properly trust her the only people who said she did the right thing was her colleagues on the Talk surprise surprise🙄
The "Media"must hold some blame for this.
Don't be so woke! They are entirely innocent!
Private Eye are journalists. TalkTV, The Sun etc are gossip rags gat divert our eyes from their mate's corruption.
'journalistic fail' PULL THE OTHER ONE! You were told not to pursue it!
I cant believe a word that comes out ofher mouth as for the other one don't know her name calling Princess Catherine Kate Middleton it was a take down to the story were she and her family stood by one of the guys in this post office scandal whom he thanked for believing in him her saying its all so very sweet in her take down voice brushing it aside and carrying on talking was disgraceful they want to take a good look at GB news and learn something from the professionals learn how to be a profesional for starters.
What is astounding is the manner in which the MSM have suddenly decided to make a campaign of this when they ignored it for years. Some MSM were approached about this in 2015 when they reported on Postmasters being charged with fraud. It took a Docudrama for MSM to decide to suddenly pick up the cudgels on behalf of these people.
The same applies to all the LSM like this channel here.
The BBC have been covering this for years now, panorama, the One Show, Inside Out. a Radio 4 series, but people seem to think the Drama was the first we'd heard of it.
@@paulmayer7453 I don’t think anyone is saying they hadn’t heard about this before the drama, what cannot be denied is that the drama suddenly made this Newsworthy. No-one was actually making a big noise in defence of the wrongfully accused or imprisoned postmasters. Yes there were News Reports about this but no-one was banging a drum demanding answers. The Postmasters fight for justice was pretty much ignored, the dramatisation shone the spotlight on their plight.
@@Lottie628 you literally said the MSM ignored it for years, but that isn't the case, the general public didn't seem bothered, MPs forced an investigation in 2012, the public enquiry was announced 4 years ago, All this has been covered by the news media and in documentaries, but it never caught the publics attention until it was dramatised
I guess the writers and producers at ITV didn’t think it was too bitty.
They did eff all in 14 years, and now they expect praise for their panic response to an ITV docudrama. Computer Weekly and Private Eye have a proud record of hammering away at this scandal for over a decade and Panorama pitched in too - but the rest of the media are culpable.
Too bothered with Markle and other nonsense.
Private Eye is far superior.
How could she resist the headline
Post Master Bates?
How indeed? I remember a metal work teacher in school who had fun with this little quip for years... 😅
@@BBCFakeNews-fe2wc Like Seaman Staines on Captain Pugwash.
@@stephfoxwell4620 Or GG Bumsore, the author of a book called 'Twenty Years In The Saddle'
They are doing the same with regards to Residential Parks. No-one listening to the little people.
Why has it taken so long? Starmer is responsible for not addressing the issue when he was in charge of the Department of Public Prosecutions
Oh Jesus wept! The DPP WAS NOT INVOLVED ! People who are incapable of reading facts shouldn’t post their drivel on here! READ THE ACCOUNTS ! 🙄
Nicely done.
Anyone else?
@@andrewoliver8930 Ed Davey as well, coupled with all the politicians who just ‘didn’t want to get involved’. But the DPP should have been on top of ‘ why are there, all of a sudden, so many corrupt sub postmasters ?
How far have we fallen. A minister for common sense. Very Monty python. I thought they were all supposed to have common sense.
Very 1984
Journalists might want to look at what one MP Andrew Bridgen is doing on another issue and now another national inquiry has been suspended. Thank goodness a solution to all these problems is on the horizon, a digital currency and digital ID run by tech firms given great contracts by officials with vested interests- can anybody see a problem with this.
WE DON'T WONT DIGITAL CURRENCY OR DIGITAL ID!
Its pretty scary that the only way to get justice in this situation was by finding the funding for an extremely expensive private prosecution and even after that it has taken five years for the momentum to build up enough for some real action because of it.
The lawyers have had £170 million off this.
Unacceptable
The fact that this can happen in this country is an measure of how corrupt and inefficient some of our puplic/private institutions have become. Furthermore how ineffective politicians have been in carrying out their duties.
While we continue to award failure and inefficiency in public life nothing will change.
tory duty is to enrich the right people and they do not seem to fail on this fact here .billion pound contracts as reward last month to the same people .honors and titles given to the right people at post office million pound golden hand shakes to the right bosses at post office and fijistsu .i see no fail by the tory here .nothing for the decent every thing for the undecent .i see no fail from the tory here they kept their promise to the rich. and then all of a suddon it election year and rushi thinks he can pretend untill election over .either way nothing be done by the tory they can just mouth off pretend .do not realy have to do any thing they lose then nothing has to be honored by them if they win same thing.
The fact it took a tv drama to motivate mps says everything.
But why has this taken sooooooo long, something clearly !!! Wrong with the system if this is the biggest miscarriage of justice then why not looked at ten years ago.
Now what about the vaccine scandal ?? Why aren’t there MPs attending discussion on this
Better be jail time for someone!
There are some shady characters in the P.O. I used to bank the takings at a flagship video store at the local P.O. in Hampstead North London.
On one banking trip me the assistant manager and the manager counted out the taking 3 times before it was put together for banking.
I toddled off to the P.O. with the takings handed them over to the guy behind the glass.
He proceeded to count out the money in front of me but for every £100 he was sticking it in his money drawer instead of leaving all the money out in front of him and myself.
Shock horror we were £20 short which i know he pocketed but a recount is impossible because he had added it to his money drawer.
I really hope KARMA got him because i had to pay the £20 out of my wages.
My heart goes out to these people..
'Minister for Common Sense' So this is what we have all allowed ourselves to be reduced to. At least this bizarre Mickey-Mouse job title seems to have stopped McVey from moonlighting on GB News. Let's be thankful for small mercies...
I remember finding out about this story in 2020 through a RUclipsr called Alex Bellfield who ironically is now in prison for making youtube videos. At the time i was outraged and wondering why it wasn't getting enough press.
The guy is in prison for stalking, not for "making youtube videos".
The BBC have been covering this for 10 years now
This is scandalous, good hard working people have suffered just serving their local communities which their local MPs should have given them help!!!
At its peak, there were over 9,000 Post Office Local branches being operated as franchisees by private retailers. The new owners (post 2011 privatisation) ended the franchise arrangement because they hoped that people would just travel further and use official post offices, internalising the small profits previously made by corner shops and mini markets. Just another case of privatisation gone wrong (or, perhaps, gone right)
The executives who were, or are, at the Post Office and Horizon at the time, should loose ALL BONUSES as well as face prosecution for their appalling crimes including Perverting the course of Justice A.S.A.P.
Britain is the most wicked country😢
So so true 😢
Silly comment. I'd say North Korea or Iran or the USA are even worse.
The banks that took peoples homes of them through this disgraceful act as they were innocent should be looked at as well
Seema Misra I have the need to give you the biggest hug you have ever had. I feel for you and admire you. You have all my love and respect. Love from Scotland xx
Fair play to Isabel for her honesty.
Minister for common sense. Sounds like a monty python sketch.
Anyone who is sent to prison and is an honest person can have a detrimental effect on mental health.The lady who felt suicidal is an example,she was also pregnant.
We’re used to ‘journalistic failure’, up here in Scotland, with the SNP.
They're certainly missing elements from this story. I think it's good that you brought up the rAce issue-. In the ITV series, its highly curious why this issue, among others, was omitted from the story. I think a lot of people will put that down a major reason story was effectively ignored by journalists, although they won't admit it. (exactly the same people who are now busy virtue-signalling over the same subject of course)
PROPER REPARATION would include restoring every victim's SOLD property, by those who bought precious goods - including the Indian lady's ancestral jewellery. HOW ABOUT THAT?
These journalists weren't concerned about injustice at the time, only what would sell newspapers and make money for their bosses and themselves. They're all very 'righteous' now though.
panorama and private eye covered this story years ago
A hundred and fifty million paid out but how much went to lawyers needed to speak on behalf of the victims.?
I note that Kevin O'Sullivan suggester that "some of them may have been guilty of defrauding the post office", guess he's had his orders
His owner is US a billionaire, but he's on our side. I'm sure of it.
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Its great that all the post masters will be cleared and hopefully get real compensation for what was done to them ! But what about the people that did this to them and those in power that ignored what was happening i imagine nothing they will be let off scot free maybe some lower down manager will be used as scapegoat those at the top won't even get a mention
They want their money back all of it now.
@TalkTV - Sorry, but citing comments that you felt the story was 'too bitty' so not exciting nor gripping enough to cover, is part of the problem. Hardly any journalists contacted years ago could be bothered, didn't take it seriously. Had you, and been consistent to gain public awareness, those poor people that had their lives completely ruined, would have had recognition years earlier. I feel you are all 'woe is poor me' bleating because it took a docu-drama to do a job that you had daily and weekly access to provide. You all by point of your job title: Jounalist, should have done that in the first place. You all should have covered this story to get the plight full frontal in the public's face. Yet you didn't. All credit, therefore, rightly needs to go to those behind the docu-drama, for not failing the affected people, by not viewing the whole story as 'bitty,' but for pulling out the stops and helpng them, where you failed and did not help, for years.
The biggest (known) miscarriage of justice in modern times, thousands of people wrongly accused and punished, a high level coverup, international corruption on an enormous scale ... it's all too under her radar, don't you see?
Oh my - pity me Isabel! The public and the Post masters are all in support of your sorry self!
This is real tragic news. The media treat the public like fools. We don’t want endless meaningless stories eg Meghan and Harry etc. This isn’t news. Many people don’t even watch the news now as it is constantly negatively depressing.
My heart goes out to those Post Office masters whose lives been ruined by the maliciousness of those at Fujitsu and the PO. The govt should have revised the contract right at the time the first problems occurred. now resolve the compensation with immediate effect and not wait for the results of the review.
Excellent there needs to be redress for all the wrongs.
Should have pushed the envelope sooner.
Put a real stamp on it. Not parcel it away.
Too late for a seal of approval, she's missed her red letter day.
Cashier number two please....
And were so sorry for those that took there own lives ,And those that have been in prison ,,And all we have made to Suffer because we were to busy covering up this Curruption ,But we were to Busy covering up all the other Curruption we had going on .But will pay them a few Thousand in the hope that will make it go away .
This is a form of Apartite. A class war disgusting
Why have the Government (tax payers) got to foot the bill?
Why not the post office?
Why not Fujitsu?
I think Fujitsu currently has Government contracts. Why?
Why are the Government falling over themselves to pay compensation?
Are they worried about parliament involvement?
Such sudden efficiency on the part of the government! Could it be there's an upcoming election?
Well, I thought I'd never say this about Oakshot but she certainly has more morals than some MP and those involved in the post office and Fujisu.
You think? She's jumping on the bandwagon now.
I think quickly means tomorrow... I also feel embarrassed to live in this country there is something sordid every week
The Post Office isn't the only goverment department which screws people over. What about the CMS ?
I don’t think it can be swiftly… can it? How long has it been so far?
Probably no friends of hers as sources to grass up to the police.
Isabel is right get it done FAST again stop stalling and work work 7 days a week this people have suffered enough show respect you greedy arrogant pathetic politicians shame on you
Journalist ignores plight of innocents and misses story of the decade, makes a pathetic excuse: "That's not an excuse."
Isabel's silence contributed to the ongoing coverup. Add her to the list.
Andrew Bridgen knew about it back then. Maybe this brave man should now be listened to about excess deaths also. Isabel...shame on you...stop making these silly excuses. Silly girl
Andrew Bridgen is but another useless ex-Tory, who lied in court like the Post Office did.
Andrew Bridgen is not a "brave man".
@@alfredttarski4521 well, I think it is brave to be one of the only MPs to have raised questions in the house about issues that so few dared whisper to a mouse, under a blanket, in the dark.
@@pcmartiny What are you talking about? don't beat about the bush. The guy's a liar. He's even lied under oath.
@@alfredttarski4521 and which lies would they be?
It may give some hope to the victims of the tainted blood scandal from years ago.
Oh do shut up Isobel!!!!
Politicians in this country seem to want to take the easy option. Some, mine, don't even answer letters, any letters on difficult things are passed on to a civil servant and their reply is sent back. There's no ownership and they've forgotten who is serving who.
I don't know if it is a modern affliction but most MPs seem to be incapable of asking difficult questions when told there's no problem, or 97% of scientists agree, which they never do on any topic. The same problem also affects most journalists.
But the biggest issue is outside work and consultancies easy money with future employment guaranteed.
Eye told you so....
So people have to pitch stories to journalists now 😂 investigate. ..
How long have these people been waiting for compensation? Yet Sunak can sign off another £2.5billion at the drop of a hat for Ukraine?
The victims should get a million pounds each MINIMUM .. Fujitsu and the Post Office can afford it.
Is this justice? You must be joking. This is the equivalent of giving every Holocaust survivor 20p for their troubles. And still making them wait for payment.
There's always a back door
So Sunak can move this quickly over a TV show (he doesn't actually give a toss about the victims) - so when is ITV going to do a show on the destruction and death caused by people smuggling? Surely the greatest State Sponsored Terrorist Actmin History. That way we can get Sunak to move as quickly to put a stop to it? Or maybe his sponsors need to be consulted first?
Fujitsu are partners with InfoSys. Keep that in mind.
AND YOU LET JOHNSON AND CRUELLA BRAVERMAN GET AWAY WITH THEIR RACISM
5 people sitting round rehashing all we have heard before. Why dont the companies and organisations these people "represent" come together and make some noise in tge right place, maybe at Fujtsu or outside Paulaa Vennells home. As always , more time wasted talking, instead of taking positive action,
The posturing of UK media and political class are the pits. Oakeshot is right. ll the squawking makes me nauseous. This is a bloody tragedy, but it is NOT the greatest scandal in British history. The biggest scandal is going on in plain sight in the Covid Inquiry. Sickening.
Yeah, sickening. Your tosh that is.
@@alfredttarski4521 join the dots..
@@anthonychase4364 ... says the guy who joined the loony bin.
Isabel looks amazing (thought she was 18 or 19)
Sunak, define quickly.
In due course, in the fullness of time. At the appropriate juncture ...
Oakshott a journalist. Your having a laugh
The thickos on here blaming Keir Starmer. The DPP WAS NOT INVOLVED. For gods sake get a grip and read the evidence!
It's good enough for all the thickos listening to this channel, who have no idea of the special legal status of the Post Office.
Go away with ur excuses ... fake journalism
Did Oakshit want everything served on a plate before she does her job as a JOURNALIST, that is having a nose for a story and even putting a bit of effort in, even if there is a chance there’s nothing at the end of it.
It was just a quite boring story. It got interesting because it was so widespread and lengthy.
Isabel is only interested in migration issues "keeping it right" a journalist really who isabel please and Ester Macvey does she go out during the day 😊
i want my kids
And if journalists had been punchier and more profferionaly curious it coykd have been resolved years ago so it was an excuse yoy have juat expressed wasnt it.
You’re all just making excuses for yourselves.