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Nero’s Slacker: The Anonymous BBC News Snark Account That Got An Entire Newsroom Talking
Meet Nero's Slacker, an anonymous sh*tposter who is roasting BBC News bosses and colleagues one X (Twitter) update at a time.
Now, we don’t really know if Husain and Emma Barnett didn’t see eye-to-eye after the latter’s arrival on Today in May, but it’s absolutely fair to say that their supposedly frosty relationship has been a source of fevered gossip in the New Broadcasting House “news pit.” Nero’s Slacker today called former BBC North America editor Jon Sopel “The Olympic Torch,” a reference to an old (and rather unfair) joke that the journalist liked the comforts of the Washington D.C. bureau so much he “never went out.” Then there’s the playful accusation that BBC News CEO Deborah Turness had a “heavy night on the Aperol” earlier this week, which insiders think could be a nod to the apéritif that was on tap at the Foreign Press Association Awards in London.
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