It's a colossal failure of editing. Sadly at a time of maximum political peril.

That's mad. You can't ignore the specific allegations. All the other stuff is fair but how can you defend malpractice?

'Leave to one side for now the direct allegations about specific failures of BBC coverage' - you can't do that. That's ridiculous.

I disagree Peter. It's exactly the manipulation of material that BBC Verify would expose. Whether it deserves resignation I don't know but BBC editorial controls are a mess at the moment. Well done for them to accept responsibility.

Big disagree with you on this my friend. The 'narrative' is not the same as the truth.

Can you imagine being the person at the Heritage Foundation who sent that email?

Of course, Manchester City and Newcastle get away with taking money from human rights abusers because, well, because of the money. Fans are easily bribed.

Sounds like Berg was doing his job as an editor. Something Jones would benefit from.

Perhaps if journalists called themselves 'creators' then the public might want to pay for news...

You know what I think about surveys asking the public about issues like this... :) Of course, they are going to say 'pay creators'. Who wouldn't?

I 'intuitively' feel the opposite. As a journalist and academic I am 'trained' endlessly on other people's content that I don't pay for directly.

It seems to me that 'creators' aren't going to win the training argument. So much of creation feeds off other people's work anyway. It might be more fruitful to pursue arrangements such as the Universal Music Group deal with Stability AI? stability.ai/news/univers...

Again, my eternal struggle, are they showing bad taste deliberately? Like a taunt?

It's still early. Most of the municipal shows will be at the weekend? East London is pretty noisey tonight

The salt is excellent - even better than Maldon imho