Gerri Peev: Pesto needs mortar
Well, at least Panorama needs a blast. Sometimes there is just not enough bang for the buck. The BBC's endless trailing of the Panorama documentary: The Year Britain's Bubble Burst, offered more teasing than a peep show.
It boasted interviews with some of the most significant players in the run-up to the near collapse of banking as we know it. Robert Peston, the Beeb's economics editor, even bemoaned the fact the programme was only half an hour long on his blog, meaning that some of the juicy interviews ended on the cutting room floor.
It is odd, then, that the editors of the Beeb deemed it more interesting to devote more than half the programme to the journalist behind the story. Talented though he is, surely viewers wanted to know more about what Hector Sants (FSA boss), Alistair Darling, John Gieve (deputy governor of the Bank of England who admitted he did not have a clue) and Barclays' boss John Varley thought than why Peston decided to become a journalist. No doubt Peston is slightly embarrassed about being the focus of the documentary himself.
One more thing: the BBC's gloating about how Peston had an exclusive scoop about the bank bail out in October is not entirely true. Bill Jamieson, The Scotsman's executive editor, had the scoop on our front page story in our first editions on October 7. That means it was on the page many hours before the BBC had it online or broadcast the news.
The BBC has form in this, it tried to claim a story as its own a few weeks ago about RBS job losses that we had run on that day's front page.
It boasted interviews with some of the most significant players in the run-up to the near collapse of banking as we know it. Robert Peston, the Beeb's economics editor, even bemoaned the fact the programme was only half an hour long on his blog, meaning that some of the juicy interviews ended on the cutting room floor.
It is odd, then, that the editors of the Beeb deemed it more interesting to devote more than half the programme to the journalist behind the story. Talented though he is, surely viewers wanted to know more about what Hector Sants (FSA boss), Alistair Darling, John Gieve (deputy governor of the Bank of England who admitted he did not have a clue) and Barclays' boss John Varley thought than why Peston decided to become a journalist. No doubt Peston is slightly embarrassed about being the focus of the documentary himself.
One more thing: the BBC's gloating about how Peston had an exclusive scoop about the bank bail out in October is not entirely true. Bill Jamieson, The Scotsman's executive editor, had the scoop on our front page story in our first editions on October 7. That means it was on the page many hours before the BBC had it online or broadcast the news.
The BBC has form in this, it tried to claim a story as its own a few weeks ago about RBS job losses that we had run on that day's front page.
Labels: Alistair Darling, economic crisis, Gerri Peev, Panorama, Robert Peston
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