If sneering and partisanship were the mark of excellence in radio news journalism, then recent editions of "The Today Programme" would sweep the awards.
Yesterday it was John Humphrys with Michael Gove, today it was the turn of Evan Davis with Chris Grayling. Not that I'm a big fan of Mr. Grayling either, but it would be so nice to go back to those good old days when the BBC really did pay more than just lip service to professional standards -- when people like Robin Day could deliver interesting, insightful and moreover, tough interviews that focussed on well-researched facts, and without the need for grandstanding or for couching questions in sneering and insulting language. Go listen to the interviews here, if you want to know exactly what I'm referring to.
I used to be a very vocal defender of the BBC and of the licence fee, and to be fair I still regard it as value for money, but these days I find there's a lot less to defend, and much more to criticize.
It's been a life-long observation of mine that programme makers, and particularly BBC programme makers, never ever (ever) accept any criticism of their programmes....ever. If they should continue in that vein, against a tide of evidence to the contrary, then quite frankly, they deserve all that's coming to them.
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