Despite all the news going on in the last year or so I thought Newsnight was losing it a bit. Now I see Michael Crick has jumped ship or been pushed and headed for Channel 4. Or rather heading back to ITN. He was a BBC man for 20 or so years mainly on Newsnight.
I also note that a lot of people moan about Peter Rippon who has been Editor since Nov 2008. certainly he hasn't coped well with the budget that has been slaughtered. The investigative side of Newsnight has gone down the tubes and there seem to be far too many talking heads. They save money as they are mainly studio based but the in depth coverage of events seems to have diminished especially with foreign affairs.
2 years ago viewing figures were around 1 million. They are now apparently around 500000. Not good enough really. Still they would never chop it? Surely not. Not while Paxman ploughs on picking up his million quid or so.
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