BBC failed to defend me during Tory witch-hunt, says Lewis Goodall

Former Newsnight journalist says editors instead told him to ‘be careful’ when he was attacked by ex-No 10 aide on BBC board• ‘Nobody can be entirely impartial’: Lewis Goodall on poverty, politics and the BBCLewis Goodall, the former policy editor of Newsnight and now a presenter on the hit podcast The News Agents, has alleged that his BBC bosses failed to “push back enough” when his reporting was criticised by a former Conservative communications chief, Robbie Gibb.“It was McCarthyite,” he says, suggesting in a candid new interview in the Observer Magazine that he was briefly the target of a Tory witch-hunt – an uncomfortable period which intensified when Gibb joined the board of the BBC. “People high up at the BBC didn’t seem to be pushing back enough.” Continue reading…



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Author : Vanessa Thorpe Arts and media correspondent

Publish date : 2024-07-21 09:00:02

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