Opinion  

Save the BBC

Hal Austin

Another awful BBC failure, as far as journalism is concerned, is the BBC’s staff tendency to interview each other: a studio presenter interviewing a reporter about an event that s/he is there to report on and, further, a subject the reporter has no possible expertise about.

The worst, however, is the new-look PM; don’t get me talking about the dumbing down, the sheer nonsense of Eddie Mair, who some tabloids are prepared to call a ‘big hitter’. Heavens help us.

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Let us be critical of the BBC, but let us get it right.