Agenda pressure
- 23 Oct 08, 12:08 PM
Why, the Daily Mail's Stephen Glover demands to know today, are "the BBC's knives ..out for Osborne" while "Mandy is getting away with murder".
Simple, Stephen, they're not. Rather than rehearse the arguments myself let me refer you to a blog written by the BBC's head of news at Westminster about why we've taken the editorial decisions we have.
The Mail has also expressed some surprise that I told the Today programme that I'd resisted pressure from the Tory party and the Tory press to cover the Mandelson story. Let me explain. I get pressure all the time to cover things that suit people's political agendas and I'm paid to resist that pressure from wherever it comes.
