Corporation’s editors have a ‘safety-first’ attitude and are obsessed with newspapers’ agendas,says economics editor
Peston expresses horror over influence of PR – full textBBC News is “completely obsessed” by the agenda set by newspapers and follows the lead of the Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph too much, according to senior journalist Robert Peston.
The BBC’s economics editor, and in a question-and-acknowledge session after delivering the British Journalism Review Charles Wheeler lecture on Thursday evening,said he found this “most frustrating” and attributed it to a safety-first approach by programme editors.
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Source: theguardian.com