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but elizabeth williams thought it was given too much time. bbc breakfast editor richard frediani told us, it wasn t just breakfast that covered the post office scandal extensively this week. that was true of most bbc outlets, and indeed the media in general. but why did it take a tv drama to bring the issue to such prominence? even one as powerful as this. tthey say money somehow gone missing from this branch, which it hasn t, and i have to pay it back, which i won t. so i say, prove it. prove that i m wrong and you re right. show me the figures . but they can t or won t do that. so now they want to close me down to shut me up because they don t want everyone knowing what i know. which is? that the fancy new computer system that they ve spent an arm and a leg on is faulty. chris williams emailed us to say, it has taken an itv drama and an anonymous viewer had the same concern. well, ifjournalism has been found wanting here, and we ll be exploring that question in a m ....
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well, no, not really. and it s notjust subpostmasters, it s post office managers . and what s the story here ? well, they re saying they were put in prison and they weren t guilty of any crimes, but some of them did plead guilty . and it s just quite a difficult, knotty story to tell. and whilst there was growing public awareness of how serious this story was, i think through journalism, it took something huge. it took the resources of itv to commission a drama, which isn t cheap, across prime time television at 9pm every evening on the week when no one is going out. do you think it reflects a failure in british journalism that it took the drama to draw people s attention to it fully? i think there s a very proud history of docu dramas, dramas based on fact, and dramas based on the work ofjournalists which which have resonated with the public. cathy come home by ken loach, of course, is a famous example. jimmy mcgovern s hillsborough was another one as well, which resonated with the ....
Docu dramas, if you will. what we haven t discussed there is a real ethical issue here in terms of the integrity of those agencies as news sources. nbc has issued a statement saying this is part of the entertainment division. sure, sure. that absolutely is the truth. but cnn has done the same thing. but, at the same time, i don t think, you know, that we can ignore the fact there is going to be a public perception of a merging of the two. the general public may not see the difference. i think we should think of that and what are the implications of media sources that cover these campaigns. real quickly for the republican side, john, let me ask you. do you think maureen dowd has a point in talking about it, in fact, reince priebus is drawing more attention to it? i don t think that hillary clinton has any problem drawing attention. almost everything she does is big news. i think her bigger problem by the time she runs for the primaries she will be old news and she won t be able ....
People. and it is far from an exception. glen, every time we do a prison segment, and you ve been a guest, you know, several times, every time my executive producer rolls his eyes and says, really? because we lose audience. people actually turn the tv off. and yet, the relatively sensati sensation docu-dramas that we do on lockup on this network are extremely highly rated. how can i get nerdland to care that this is happening? that this matters for who we are as a people? i think you know, i m glad you re contextualizing it. we re addicted to punishment and addicted to incarceration. and if the country is addicted to incarceration, california is like a heroin addict that just hit the lottery. essentially, you have the majority of their state work is our correctional officers. the correctional officers are ....