The BBC by Tom Mills

Author:Tom Mills
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Verso Books

Dyke suggested that this led to a culture in which Westminster politics is over-reported and journalists adopt a less-questioning attitude. This is certainly a serious problem. With the opportunities that proximity to power brings – access to sources, insider information and ‘scoops’ – comes the loss of critical distance. Andrew Marr wrote of this problem in his book My Trade:

If you really talk with a politician about their in tray, and the problems of rival departments, or of dodgy past initiatives, it is hard to avoid seeing things their way. The same perspective that gives you insight, also blunts your hostility. So is it better to stand outside, defiantly ignorant, making judgments that the crowd will applaud? There is no final answer. If you don’t form close understandings with senior politicians so that you can hear them think aloud honestly in a relaxed way then you are unlikely to understand much of what is really going on. Yet if you do then you drift closer to them emotionally and may very well flinch from putting the boot in when they have failed in some way.85

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