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itsrobert
Founding member
Apart from anything else, that is doing an incredible disservice to Joanna. It implies that she is unable to remain professional by being impartial when reporting on news that affects a close friend or relative. If that were the case, they should have removed Martyn Lewis and Jennie Bond the day that Jill Dando was murdered. These people are professional enough not to allow personal opinions and feelings affect the quality of their work.
SK
You're right about Joanna, but your analogy doesn't hold water.
There's a difference between between being devastated because your friend/colleague has just been murdered and your job requires you to cover it, and directly covering policy that your spouse has almost certainly had a hand in crafting, or if not the policy itself, then the crafting of the resultant PR.
That said, there's nothing to suggest that is the reason she wasn't on-air, and to speculate otherwise is fruitless.
Apart from anything else, that is doing an incredible disservice to Joanna. It implies that she is unable to remain professional by being impartial when reporting on news that affects a close friend or relative. If that were the case, they should have removed Martyn Lewis and Jennie Bond the day that Jill Dando was murdered. These people are professional enough not to allow personal opinions and feelings affect the quality of their work.
You're right about Joanna, but your analogy doesn't hold water.
There's a difference between between being devastated because your friend/colleague has just been murdered and your job requires you to cover it, and directly covering policy that your spouse has almost certainly had a hand in crafting, or if not the policy itself, then the crafting of the resultant PR.
That said, there's nothing to suggest that is the reason she wasn't on-air, and to speculate otherwise is fruitless.
SP
Although in these times when the BBC is scared of its own shadow, avoiding giving certain newspapers the opportunity to whip up a storm of complaints from people who didn't even see the programme might be seen as a good bit of risk management?
I guess it is quite an awkward position for Joanna - I'm sure her professional integrity is impeccable, but there will always be people looking for ammunition.
I guess it is quite an awkward position for Joanna - I'm sure her professional integrity is impeccable, but there will always be people looking for ammunition.
MA
I hardly expect the Tory press to complain about any potential conflict of interest over what's been suggested in this case, more likely the Gruaniad letters page !
It sounds good, until you realise that the conservative press will just make up stuff anyway.
I hardly expect the Tory press to complain about any potential conflict of interest over what's been suggested in this case, more likely the Gruaniad letters page !
LL
London Lite
Founding member
Victoria features in the BBC's advent calendar today. Mentions that they'll be a best of the show on the NC between Christmas and New Year.
Meet the new addition to @vicderbyshire's family in today's BBC #Adventhttps://t.co/vEvuC2Pm7B
— BBC (@BBC) December 3, 2015
RK
I'm assuming your referring to the break during the holiday season. It's probably easier and cheaper to create an episode of best of clips to fill the time slot rather than having an anchor on duty doing newscasts during that time.
Here in the US this is par for the course for cable news. They'll have news in the morning and best of for the rest of the day.
I don't understand why they keep the show on air when she's off. Surely a replacement programme is better?
I'm assuming your referring to the break during the holiday season. It's probably easier and cheaper to create an episode of best of clips to fill the time slot rather than having an anchor on duty doing newscasts during that time.
Here in the US this is par for the course for cable news. They'll have news in the morning and best of for the rest of the day.
LL
London Lite
Founding member
Considering the NC has plenty of back half hour filler over the festive season, it makes sense to use the Derbyshire show for filler.
HB
Nice to see BBC News giving the VDP a very important 'exclusive' interview. The Shaker Aamer interview was done by Victoria Derbyshire and she now seems to be a 'senior anchor' at BBC.
Lots of promos or mentions of tomorrows programme, during the credits of The Hunt and also during tonights Ten, they both mentioned the full interview being shown tomorrow.
Lots of promos or mentions of tomorrows programme, during the credits of The Hunt and also during tonights Ten, they both mentioned the full interview being shown tomorrow.
DT
This is possibly the biggest issue I have with the VD programme, sometimes it is human interest other times it tries to be hardhitting. It is a programme without any raison d'etre. Sometimes they'll go all Newsnighty, sometime they'll do a Question Time episode and sometimes they'll try and emulate ITV daytime - why don't they pick a genre and stick to it. Sometimes they'll spend episodes devoted to politics - see Labour Leadership contest - other days they won't mention it all. The very fact that they can't make up their minds what kind of a show it is, is presumably why they need so many pieces of furniture - a sofa for the human interest, lounge chairs for the more serious interviews, bar furniture for when they're doing discussion pieces, a touchscreen for when they're doing analysis.
Why we need this programme is another question - all its 'areas of coverage' are adequately covered elsewhere. Serious interviews and analysis are covered well by Newsnight, even if nobody is watching (although nobody is still higher than the VD ratings); Question Time episodes are covered well by I forget, oh yeah Question Time; Human interest is covered exceptionally well by ITV and to a lesser extent The One Show; Political News is covered by the Daily Politics and Breaking News used to be well reported between 0915 and 1100 by the BBC News Channel - but unfortunately the head of BBC News seemingly believes that there exists something that covers the remit of a rolling news channel better than rolling news. This interview would be very well suited to Newsnight, but then I suppose BBC Manager logic dictates its better to sacrifice a fledgling 35 year old national institution to help prop up a fledgling and hard to justify 8 month old pile of sh*te than it is to axe a programme less than a year after its inception because there is no point in there being a Newsnight/Question Time/One Show/This Morning/Daily Politics/Rolling News hybrid.
Nice to see BBC News giving the VDP a very important 'exclusive' interview. The Shaker Aamer interview was done by Victoria Derbyshire and she now seems to be a 'senior anchor' at BBC.
Lots of promos or mentions of tomorrows programme, during the credits of The Hunt and also during tonights Ten, they both mentioned the full interview being shown tomorrow.
Lots of promos or mentions of tomorrows programme, during the credits of The Hunt and also during tonights Ten, they both mentioned the full interview being shown tomorrow.
This is possibly the biggest issue I have with the VD programme, sometimes it is human interest other times it tries to be hardhitting. It is a programme without any raison d'etre. Sometimes they'll go all Newsnighty, sometime they'll do a Question Time episode and sometimes they'll try and emulate ITV daytime - why don't they pick a genre and stick to it. Sometimes they'll spend episodes devoted to politics - see Labour Leadership contest - other days they won't mention it all. The very fact that they can't make up their minds what kind of a show it is, is presumably why they need so many pieces of furniture - a sofa for the human interest, lounge chairs for the more serious interviews, bar furniture for when they're doing discussion pieces, a touchscreen for when they're doing analysis.
Why we need this programme is another question - all its 'areas of coverage' are adequately covered elsewhere. Serious interviews and analysis are covered well by Newsnight, even if nobody is watching (although nobody is still higher than the VD ratings); Question Time episodes are covered well by I forget, oh yeah Question Time; Human interest is covered exceptionally well by ITV and to a lesser extent The One Show; Political News is covered by the Daily Politics and Breaking News used to be well reported between 0915 and 1100 by the BBC News Channel - but unfortunately the head of BBC News seemingly believes that there exists something that covers the remit of a rolling news channel better than rolling news. This interview would be very well suited to Newsnight, but then I suppose BBC Manager logic dictates its better to sacrifice a fledgling 35 year old national institution to help prop up a fledgling and hard to justify 8 month old pile of sh*te than it is to axe a programme less than a year after its inception because there is no point in there being a Newsnight/Question Time/One Show/This Morning/Daily Politics/Rolling News hybrid.