BBC in America
The BBC has put Matt Frei in charge of BBC News America and I have to wonder why. Probably some kind of trained journalist but is his forte language or journalism? Does Frei have any skills other than his abilty to speak English and German?
I am watching a programme at the moment where already he has made three insensitive remarks about two separate people. I suppose he would defend himself by saying he was asking Hard Talk style questions ... pshaw!
What about Frei's Nazi question, currently being heavily advertised? "Here is a question that really bothers me, am I allowed to like a building designed by a regime like the Nazis" (My wording, might not be perfect).
Hard Talk
Hard Talk used to be very interesting: Tim Sebastian asked awkward questions of a wide variety of people.
Hard Talk has become a travel opportunity as they now go to the USA, South Africa, Hong Kong and to many other places, currently Trinidad and Tobago.
Moreover, they have replaced the word Hard with Rough. Sebastian got it right: well researched, hard, awkward, searching, incisive. Stepehan Sackur and Zeinab Badawi, current presenters, think hard means rough: often ill informed and downright rude rather than hard.
Back to Frei: he began yesterday's report with an introduction that his guest was able to over turn immediately as factually incorrect.
The BBC's standards are slipping everywhere.
DW
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