Moira Stuart - Dropped?

I agreed with you until that point . I take it you don't watch BBC EMT that often?! I find her highly irritating, as do most people I know who watch the programme!

At least Marie Ashby (a good example of a 'mature' female newsreader) takes her place on Fridays, who is far better IMO. She has authority, but can have a laugh without being childish. Plus she doesn't wear garish clothes

Moira's got the support of the Pope apparently

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I am relieved to hear that the BBC is reviewing its decision to drop Moira Stuart from BBC News. I was horrifed and shocked to hear that after 26 years she was going to be shunted aside. She is THE most recognised face of BBC News. She is incredibly hard working and dignified and is one of the few presenters left who doesn't bang her own drum. I do hope she continues to have some presence on BBC One rather than being offered something obsure on a digital channel.

Perhaps though the damage has been done and maybe Moira should reconsider her options as Janet Street Porter comments:

"To talk of Moira Stuart "presenting" the news as if she wrote it, produced it, and decided on the running order is to misunderstand the task in hand. How can reading out a script once a week on a Sunday morning be your main job in life? The BBC have offered her other presenting work, and quite frankly, the woman is far too intelligent and dignified to demean herself by participating in the threadbare circus that now constitutes prime-time news. She would be better off carving out a role as a presenter of factual programmes, making sure the older generation is adequately represented on television - something I am doing very well out of, and I would expect her to as well.

Moira should not allow herself to be "saved", because the job itself is a joke."

http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=503292007

Excellent article!! Thanks for posting it.

I have to say, I know the lady's laugh and it's infectious. So far removed from her on screen persona. The lady likes a good laugh, bordering on Rustie Lee proportions.

Naked News have offered her a job, don't think she'll take it though, probably worried about being overexposed!

What would be the betting that this surfaced on Newswatch?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=449012&in_page_id=1773

Is it time for another Black and White Minstrel headline yet?

Sally Magnasson...I've seen a number of her daytime shows she presents, I was wondering what her background was. She's very good on ''missing.''

She of course presented BBC Breakfast Time/News for over a decade, was also offered the Six (don't know when, but i read about that in an interview with her), did the predecessor to the Six...'Sixty Minutes', and has done numerous current affairs shows, and at present is one of the main anchors on BBC Reporting Scotland...

She also presents Songs of Praise from time to time.