Naga Munchetty | BBC DG Overturns Ruling

NewsWatch is thataway Carrie.......

Former Vice Chair and Former Acting Chair of the BBC Trust Diane Coyle weighs in ....

I agree with this post entirely including the point about unprecedented private anger and public disagreement from BBC staff (not just BAME). (I speak as former Vice Chair of the BBC Trust and a strong supporter of the BBC) https://t.co/4LcDtDUeCO

— Diane Coyle (@DianeCoyle1859) September 26, 2019

Was she on air this morning?

Yes, presenting with Charlie Stayt.

Isn't that exactly the point, the editorial department do not want the News presenters to go down the Fox style route of adding opinion to the News especially a mainstream bulletin. (Snow and Piers have very little credibility outside their small partisan audiences/twitter bubble)

I cannot believe people here who watch so much news on here cannot see the slippery slope you're encouraging.

I'm not encouraging anything. She recounted her own experience of racism, which is fine, that's fact , not opinion . The mistake she made was to follow it up with an off hand opinion. In total, in my opinion , not worthy of the public punishment received, a one to one chat with the show's editor should have been suffice

I mean isn’t it a known fact that POTUS is a racist? Look at him calling Mexicans rapists, entire countries sh*tholes, to taking out full page ads in NY newspapers calling for the death penalty of the Central Park five and never apologizing (and doubling down) even when they were exonerated and cleared. Those were just off the top of my head.

Explaining the Editorial Complaints Unit's decision on BBC Breakfast and President Trump's comments pic.twitter.com/LuJdjPNZll

— BBC Press Office (@bbcpress) September 26, 2019

The online support for Naga is building. A number of on air and off air colleagues have voiced their support and criticized the committee’s ruling.

I see comments from Matthew Price, Karishma Vaswani, Sally Bundock.....

It's reaching the point where Naga becoming the story will make it untenable for her to remain with BBC News / Breakfast.

I really don't think that's the case. Various journalists have approached Naga for comment and she's not responded. It will blow over - unless she wants to speak out.

In other news, today was the first day for new editor Richard Frediani. He's tweeted that he's excited to get to work - mentioning Dan, Louise, Naga and Charlie. Hopefully he'll get working on a new set...

Please, Richard. Please.

We’re crying out for a new set.