Gloria De Piero, Jason McCartney, Austin Mitchell, arguably Alan Hardwick if you count Police and Crime Commissioner as a politician. Esther McVey did some current affairs stuff after CBBC.
If Gavin loses he won't be back in his old role as a journalist, No one has listed someone who start off as a journalist, then went into politics and then come back again.
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If Gavin loses he want be back in his old role as a journalist, No one has listed someone who start off a journalist went into politics and then come back again.
I get your point. That to come back to impartial news broadcasting would be harder now that your partial views are known. But I don't think many have taken that route, have they?
If Gavin loses he want be back in his old role as a journalist, No one has listed someone who start off a journalist went into politics and then come back again.
I get your point. That to come back to impartial news broadcasting would be harder now that your partial views are known. But I don't think many have taken that route, have they?
A few journalist/newsreaders need a good kick up the back side and made clear its their job to be impartial.
If Gavin loses he won't be back in his old role as a journalist, No one has listed someone who start off as a journalist, then went into politics and then come back again.
But at 66 years old, I don't think it's too big a stretch of the imagination to suggest that returning to the journalism career he left two years ago is unlikely to be high on his agenda? Although I could happily see him covering for James O'Brien on LBC at some stage.
If Gavin loses he want be back in his old role as a journalist, No one has listed someone who start off a journalist went into politics and then come back again.
I get your point. That to come back to impartial news broadcasting would be harder now that your partial views are known. But I don't think many have taken that route, have they?
A few journalist/newsreaders need a good kick up the back side and made clear its their job to be impartial.
I know we've had the incident with Jayne Secker but I feel these are rare. And I can't get on board with people analysing the facial expressions of presenters just to believe they are biased against my personal political views.
When it comes to social media it's more of a grey area. I think it's generally agreed that TV journalists can express their opinions on their personal accounts as long as they're not seen to be affiliated with a political movement. But I personally prefer not to follow the accounts of individual journalists unless it is someone I know and trust to be impartial.