Febrile and closing in ? The hunt for the owner of the X-handle @NerosSlacker is gathering pace. There haven't been scenes like it since the spoof blog of 2008, The Secret Diary of a TV Controller Aged 33¼, written by someone too close to Danny Cohen for Danny Cohen's comfort - but never identified.
The soi-disant habitue of Caffe Nero on the piazza at Broadcaster House W1 knows his or her way round characters behind the BBC News scenes in "News Content" formerly Newsgathering, down to their daily shift patterns; and has a feel for foreign news coverage and the World Service. Some of the scuttlebut is accurate, some is reasonable surmise, and some is wrong but you'd like to believe it. It's probably a bit more hurtful that the writer realises - the disclaimer "Love the Beeb. Not trying to cause offence (usually). Not to be taken too seriously" doesn't work for many of the Slacker's targets. In seven weeks, Nero's Slacker followers have gone from zero to 1,400+, but needs probably 10 times that to make money from Musk.
Former News colleagues at the highest level have claimed to know the identity of the provocateur, and have been wrong. How long will the cover last - Christmas ?
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