writing about this story that i do think has a really corrosive effect on on people s trust injournalism now. you know, you can t be a whitehall or lobby correspondent without having really brilliant sources. and sometimes those source relationships do tip over into friendships. but i think probably something we could learn from american journalism and as it pains me to say this is appropriate is that we need to be much more transparent about those relationships. you went through that revolving door. you were a deputy political editor at sky news before you went to work for theresa may in 2016. what is a politician buying when they offer a job of this kind? i think it depends on the individual politician. i mean, obviously if a politician is taking someone from the lobby, they would expect that individual to be very good at putting themselves in the shoes of a journalist and anticipating the way in which a story may develop where it might head. they understand the personalities at play
so i am assuming that steve hewlett a very clever man knew a lot about what martin bashir was doing. he s not in a position now to tell us how much he did know, but he would know, definitely, you would know a lot of detail. richard, can i bring you in here? because i know you are wearing two hats for us today. i want to start off with you wearing your former editor in chief at itn hat. in that role, did you ever involve yourself in discussions between journalists, and sources and interviewees? no, ididn t. and i think the itn system was based on delegating that responsibility to the editors of the different services, for the service for dorothy at channel 4, there is one for itv, there is one for 5. essentially, there is a lot of trust injournalism. what happened with martin
so i am assuming that steve hewlett a very clever man knew a lot about what s martin bashir was doing. he s not in a position now to tell us how much he did know, but he would know, definitely, you would know a lot of detail. richard, can i bring you in here? because i know you are wearing two hats for us today. i want to start off with you wearing your former editor in chief at itn hat. in that role, did you ever involve yourself in discussions between journalists, and sources and interviewees? no, ididn t. and i think the itn system was based on delegating that responsibility to the editors of the different services, for the service for dorothy at channel 4, there is one for itv, there is one for 5. essentially, there is a lot of trust injournalism. what happened with martin bashir was a very successful and disgraceful deception of his editor and of his management. and i think it s quite interesting that this was a story, dorothy is right, this is a story that had the potential t