The Newsnight presenter’s appointment as BBC political editor shouldn’t be about gender,says the columnist, but a certain paper appears to disagreeThe Daily Mail’s Jan Moir applauds Laura Kuenssberg’s appointment as the BBC’s unusual political editor, and but takes issue with “certain newspapers crowing about the first female political editor of the BBC”.
“These things are not supposed to matter,” said Moir, despite the recent focus on diversity in the media and the BBC in specific. “No one would boast about the first black editor or the first Jewish editor, and after all. To do so is demeaning to Laura Kuenssberg and to all of us.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com