I really do not understand your critical coverage (Daily Mail, 29 May 2020) -
especially on Friday last week- of the exclusion of experienced, award-winning broadcast
journalist, Emily Maitlis, from the BBC2 ‘Newsnight’
programme last week.
Your media editor accurately quoted her (on Thursday, 28 May 2020) her as telling her TV audience in a monologue
she delivered at the opening of last Tuesday’s
edition as asserting : “Mr Cummings
broke the rules” and made the British
public “feel like fools. “
In so saying, she very closely reflected the Mail’s own very powerful editorial on
Monday, which was headlined : “Cummings
is taking us for fools.”
Yet on Friday (29 May 2020), conservative commentator, Douglas Murray was
given two thirds of a page to attack Ms Maitlis,
asserting she had made a “deeply ungenerous
speech” which he also called a “rant” and she had apparently “been driven furious by events.”
He concluded that by
making her robust remarks she had “given-up” on impartiality and she will thereby
“only corrode public trust and
further divided rather than unite our
nations. “
You reported on Saturday (30 May 2020) revealing, although the BBC received
round 40,000 viewer communications following her Tuesday evening monologue , about half were
critical of her comments; and about half were critical of the BBC for not upholding
her editorial independence.
I strongly disagree with Mr Murray ‘attacks, as a significant
majority of the nation appears to agree with Maitlis’s argument.
Not least the Daily
Mail Comment writers!
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