Horrocks criticises ‘psychotic’ BBC bashing in papers

Posted by Paul McNally on 21 April 2008 at 06:30
Tags: Broadcast, Journalism, National Newspapers

The head of BBC newsroom, Peter Horrocks, has bemoaned the “obsessive” coverage of anti-Beeb stories in papers such as the Daily Mail.

In an interview with the Observer ahead of a major BBC News rebranding this week, Horrocks says: “The level of attention about how high up a headline is, or how low-cut a blouse might be, is psychotic, and the pressure that puts journalists under is intense.”

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