There’s something faintly surreal at the lengths Helen Boaden goes to, to rebut Iain Dale’s claims that the BBC was biased in its reporting of the weekend’s Tory red tape review. If you wanted evidence of how ‘proper’ media is taking bloggers seriously, here it is.
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And the thing is, she makes my argument for me. Look at the 5 Live section she quotes.
Hello to the (truly startling) number of people clicking through from Iain’s site… hope you aren’t too disappointed to see that he quoted the entire post on his own blog.
I hope Iain won’t mind me reproducing the (entire) comment I added to his post:
Lion vs mouse? In terms of audience reach, and hence in terms of direct influence, I think it’s a valid turn of phrase to have used. Even with a (very commendable) quarter of a million unique visitors per month.