Journalists should report impartially on the news – they should never become the story themselves. So why, tonight is “Kirsty Wark” the second trending topic on Twitter and “Adam Boulton” the fifth?
Kirsty Wark was interviewing a French politician on Newsnight earlier and apparently her shoes, outfit and the way she walked attracted the attention of enough Twitter users to propel her to the top of the trending topics list – even after an earlier incident involving Sky’s Adam Boulton and Labour “adviser” Alastair Campbell, live on Sky News. The video can be watched below, but essentially Boulton got pretty angry at the man who once called me a hard taskmaster.
In a third incident, the BBC’s Nick Robinson is under fire for his “partisan spin” – according to MP Ben Bradshaw. Emma Freud called him an “obvious Tory” and comedian Chris Addison noted he was “editorialising massively”.
Update 7:52am, 11/05/2010 Alastair Campbell has written his own blog entry about his experience on Sky News yesterday.
There is no real point to this blog entry, only the observation about journalists becoming the story. Secondly, I wanted to see where exactly this post goes on my new-look website.