He called for a public debate on Ofcom’s understanding of impartiality. He suggested that Ofcom, the media regulator, had surreptitiously changed the rules on impartiality so that outfits like TalkTV and GB News can broadcast stuff that Mr Robinson had always understood was forbidden. To recap: earlier this month, Mr Robinson gave an interview to the trade paper Press Gazette in which he implied that Britain was in danger of losing something precious: to wit “news we can trust”.
Interviewers like Mr Robinson frequently deplore this slippery tactic, so it is no credit to him when he stoops to the same thing. You all know the tactic – faced with an awkward question, they choose to answer another one so that the interview becomes a pointless and frustrating exercise in shadow-boxing. I’ll say this for Nick Robinson: he’s clearly picked up some tips from the politicians he regularly grills on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
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