Moyles: You've got a point

Yesterday, when the Arctic Monkeys slagged off Radio One, Victoria Newton predicted it would go down badly with the DJs:

And I reckon the criticism won’t go down to well with the likes of DJs CHRIS MOYLES, JO WHILEY, ZANE LOWE and SCOTT MILLS.

So, odd, then, to see Newton reporting this morning that Chris Moyles had agreed with them on-air, even before most readers would have picked up their copy of the Sun:

Jamie said English radio is terrible. I agree. And Radio 1 plays a load of crap music!”

How does Victoria explain this huge gap between what she predicted and what actually happened?

Why, it's a conspiracy:

I’m sure he’d have had a go at the Monkeys if Radio 1 didn’t have a tribute day, Arctic Monday, on April 16.

Erm, yes. That would probably be why he agreed with them.

Moyles, meanwhile, issued a "clarification" of his views a few moments later (we do agree with Newton that this probably came following the intervention of management):

“I think Radio 1 does play a lot of crap, but I will explain my outrageous statement. We play a lot of new music, you’re not going to like everything. A lot of the stuff on the playlist I don’t like, it’s not my thing.

“If you only liked R&B and listened to a station that only plays R&B, there’s going to be some R&B you don’t like.”

The irony, of course, is that no matter how bad the music Moyles plays is, it does provide a spot of welcome relief from his talking.