That’s Channel 4 News: how Snow & co triumphed over Newsnight
One secondary casualty of this week’s Cambridge Analytica story has been the reputation of the BBC’s once-mighty Newsnight. On the evening Channel 4 News aired the first installment of its hidden-camera scoop, Newsnight carried a recorded interview with Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix. As many noted on social media, interviewer Emily Maitliss politely allowed Nix to robustly defend all the crimes that he had been seen boasting about three hours earlier. It was a disaster for the Beeb’s flagship news show and, by extension, for the BBC itself.
The usual questions about BBC budgets and charters will doubtless be raised in due time, but the bigger point here is Channel 4 News’ ascendency. Former Newsnight anchor James O’Brien recently quit the show because, he said, the venerable ideals of objective reporting, balance, and right to reply didn’t work in a time when we know that we’re being manipulated and misled on serious issues by media-trained hucksters.
The Channel 4 team, led by Jon Snow, Krishnan Guru Murthy, and Cathy Newman, has however shifted to meet that change. Tactically they use key moments from the show across all media to drive audiences to the TV show, and the rather elegant website. Tonally, the presenters are openly skeptical and challenging without resorting to showy Paxman-like rudeness; the slightly-weary-yet-personable-eye-rolling-weariness of Snow, Guru-Murty, and Newman captures our feelings about politicians better than any other presenters or journalists at the moment.
The lesson is simple. Old-fashioned objectivity and balance have become a bit outdated, somehow; far better, in 2018, to have a point of view, and be honest about it.
And of, course, wear excellent ties.
Why Middle Class People Choose High-Paying Online Casinos
Gambling behaviours of middle class UK people are also worthy of being analyzed. Through our observations, we found out that most UK punters pertaining to the middle class prefer to gamble at the best payout online casino sites in the UK. Granted, seems like most people falling in this particular revenue bracket do their research before they start playing online – which means, they are most likely to select casino operators with higher-than-average payout rates.