there. jake thoughts. after two speaking to us there. jake kanter. our media and arts correspondent still with us, david, this is been a huge story for the media, about the media and reflections on what we seeing for today. . i media and reflections on what we seeing for today. seeing for today. , i think most eole, seeing for today. , i think most peeple. there seeing for today. , i think most people, there are seeing for today. , i think most people, there are many - seeing for today. , i think most - people, there are many presenters whose names could ve been out there and they would ve said, well, that is something but huw edwards occupies a different place in the media landscape and i was thinking back and presented the bbc election coverage in 2019, the last time was a change in thatjob was a0 years. though these moments where the bbc become something else of discrete moments of elections, of state occasions, relevance, he was the face and name and the repres
that some of the issues that david was touching upon there, much more than edwards, it s when our media coach does innocence and perspective about a story. i m not denying that this is newsworthy and i m not denying that the sun didn t have every right to investigate the story but i do think it s as much a story about the sun as it is the bbc helping the bbc handled it well in the first 2a hours and they were determined to show that they would cover this as if it were about any other organisation and would understand their own role with international life but i think since then, there s been this feeding frenzy and the kind of cruelty to the coverage that s actually been my forcing the name out and constant debating about the changes of laws after cliff richards cliff richards. and ijust think we have to get a grip of a sense of
strategist campbell, of communications to tony blair and the rest is politics podcast. thank you forjoining us in first of all, let s start by getting your first thoughts were when you heard or read about the statement from vicky flind naming huw edwards as the presenter behind these allegations. j naming huw edwards as the presenter behind these allegations. behind these allegations. i guess it was onl a behind these allegations. i guess it was only a matter behind these allegations. i guess it was only a matter of behind these allegations. i guess it was only a matter of time, - behind these allegations. i guess it was only a matter of time, given i behind these allegations. i guess it. was only a matter of time, given the scale of the frenzy around the story that huw edwards was named. i think you were to happen courtesy of his wife the explanation that he is in hospital is just very sad, i think huw edwards is a huge figure within the bbc because of his role within the bbc bec
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sense of perspective about his story. i m not denying that this is not newsworthy and that the sun did not newsworthy and that the sun did not have a right to investigate the story but i do think this is much a story but i do think this is much a story about the sun than the bbc. i think the bbc handled it well in the first 2a hours and were determined to show that they will cover this if you were about any other organisation understand their own role within international life, but i think since then, there s been this feeding frenzy and the cruelty to the coverage, it s actually been about forcing the name out and constant debating about the change in law after cliff richard was named in law after cliff richard was named in a police investigation and ijust think of to get a grip of our sense of perspective in these things happen. 0n the day with the nato summit going on in the future a four piece on the agenda, i think for bigger scandals today is the story