Saturday 10 June 2017

Hurt


To the accompaniment of Johnny Cash's Hurt, last night's Newsnight began with an election montage:

I may be misreading the intent of his tweet, but I'm not entirely sure that Marr Show editor Rob Burley was quite as impressed by it as others:


My hunch is that he doesn't feel it reflects well on the concept BBC impartiality.

(Not that such things bother Newsnight's Ian Katz, as we know from Evan Davis). 

3 comments:

  1. When wafting around W1A, the term 'unique' in any form is seldom healthy.

    Luckily for the BBC, they don't care because they don't have to.

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    1. I did think of you when I read that Rob Burley tweet!

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  2. I don't know, it's not like it's unfair or inaccurate to say it was an unmitigated disaster. But that's no excuse for openly mocking one side.

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