*Why* is the media hanging onto Cummings every word?

Scandal sells papers. People (many of them, anyway) love bad news and shock horror. That's what makes Cummings's drip feed compelling... He needs to feel important, apparently, so he'll keep it coming.

Cummings is a nasty piece of work.

I don’t like Cummings BUT love the fact he is dishing the dirt on the scumbag apology for a Prime Minister. I’m sure BJ doesn’t know what lying is as he has done so all his life. I cannot abide liars but Johnson just opens his mouth regardless of truth or lie.

Wouldn’t trust Cummings one bit

Our name for Cummings is Rasputin but I think I prefer Scummings. He is a hate-filled and hateful man in my view.

Absolutely! If scummings was a woman he would be called a spiteful bitch!

The media's prime objective is to increase sales and audiences to bring in more subscriptions and advertising revenue (but exceptionally in the case of the BBC to discharge a public responsibility) so anything that helps do that is welcome - hence running Cummings stories. It doesn't matter to the press and broadcasters whether it"s true or not: it's whether it sells that counts. I hope ND does not kill the BBC. Hopefully she will be gone as soon as BJ goes.

why? for the same reason people watch soaps on TV

Because they don't like Boris and have forgotten the hoo har they all made when Cummings broke the Law. I don't trust any of them. Not from any Party.

Cummings has refused to give verbal evidence to Sue Grey;s enquiry; will only submit written evidence; doesn't do a lot to enhance his already virtually non-existent credibility

I don’t trust Johnson or Cummings.
Corbyn wasn’t popular with the majority. The media built on that.
Johnson has lied, broken his rules and guidelines. That’s lowered his popularity with the public. The media is building on that.

Johnson was voted in despite and because of lies. The country is out ofEurope but Brexit hasn’t been done. People recognised the maverick being but seem surprised he’s treating the country with the same disdain he’s treated wives, lovers, children

No political party has ever been without corruption! There never will be! Yes I hate the fact that it is always one law for us & another for them! Cummings is a little snidey lowlife trying very hard to get his own back! Boris is useless but did manage to scrape us through the pandemic. Who in the tories can take over? I cannot think of anyone! Labour have messed up big time over the last few years! Cannot see anyone there taking over & managing to do a better job! What do I know though I am nearing the end of my days just feel sorry for the mess my DGC are inheriting! With every thing else happening in the world now maybe a break from ‘he did, she said’ is in order! Can we just stop listening to Scummings drip feeding the press & Boris denying please & worry about the mess we are leaving for our children?

Cummings is a treasure trove of gossip. That's why the media hang on his every word. It sells their papers.

The media is hanging on to Cummings' every word because the words he is choosing to give are those he can back up with evidence and this is exactly what he has been waiting for. He's not going to make up stories that he can't prove so every little thing that comes out of his mouth is a tiny nugget of information that let's face it, is another nail in Johnson's coffin because he's simply getting his revenge which is always better served cold. It's not rocket science - he knows where all the skeletons are and they will continue to come out for some time I'm sure.

Maybe because we are going find out the truth about the last two years ?it’s slowly coming out ?

Question... Has he now got a job? Or is he just loading the Gun for the media?

He runs a substack blog that people can subscribe to to get 'inside information'. I assume that he is leaking things to journalists via that, as you can pay a higher rate to ask him direct questions. (I don't subscribe, I hasten to add)

He charges people to read his blog and there are loads of subscribers so he makes quite a bit of dosh that way. Those who are calling him a liar now are the same ones who fell for his Barnard Castle and Brexit lies.

goodness knows why Boris stood by him as he did. Maybe because Cummings sorted Brexit for him? He masterminded the whole lot, the misinformation, lies, stories to the press that the Brexit supporters chose to believe, that is why.

vegansrock

He charges people to read his blog and there are loads of subscribers so he makes quite a bit of dosh that way. Those who are calling him a liar now are the same ones who fell for his Barnard Castle and Brexit lies.

This, absolutely

Media or specifically the BBC who seem to have a government vendetta in progress- where has impartial news reporting gone?

Are the BBC only allowed to report pro government propaganda?

Caro57

Media or specifically the BBC who seem to have a government vendetta in progress- where has impartial news reporting gone?

How can reporting an illegal series of parties that were held when the major partygoer had made parties illegal possibly be reported 'impartially'?

Why 'specifically the BBC' incidentally? Have the other channels or newspapers reported the story any differently? I can't say I've noticed if so, and I have read/listened to and seen news on the subject from a range of sources.

WoodLane7

Cummings has refused to give verbal evidence to Sue Grey;s enquiry; will only submit written evidence; doesn't do a lot to enhance his already virtually non-existent credibility

I would have thought that written evidence was, in many instances, more credible than verbal accounts.

It depends whether or not what is written is actual evidence though - verifiable copies of emails, recordings etc. of the alleged events, or just a written, unverifiable account of events.

I think Cummings will attempt to secure another ‘Special’ role in the Government once Johnson has gone. It is alleged that he’s getting closer to Javid (presumably having calculated that he is the most likely candidate for the PM’s job) Part of the scam is that, by leaking information about a few of Johnson’s misdemeanours (and providing ‘evidence’ of advising him against rule breaking) he can attempt to promote himself as a moral paragon. I don’t think we’ve seen the last of Cummings - he has knowledge and skills which will be badly needed by the Government to weather the economic and political storms ahead…