The Emily Maitlis row isn& #39;t a question of & #39;bias& #39; or whether what she said was & #39;true& #39;. It was editorialising, which arguably has no place in the Newsnight format.
But it *is* a question of the BBC& #39;s general bias against a certain flavour of editorialising.

Laura Kuenssberg& #39;s Twitter, on the other hand, is a direct communication tool for Dominic Cummings, skulking as a & #39;source& #39;. That is much more unprofessional than Emily Maitlis currying favour with viewers by reflecting the majority view in her intro to the programme.

As an aside, apart from passively receiving 6 Music & #39;news& #39; bulletins regularly (themselves largely consisting of HM Government announcements) I stopped listening to, watching & reading BBC current affairs output in December 2019.

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It won& #39;t be a popular view in my bubble, but if I were still a Newsnight viewer I wouldn& #39;t want it to be a & #39;nice& #39; version of Fox News. And although the job of a presenter is partly to mirror & #39;the man on the Clapham omnibus& #39;, there are less intrusive ways than Maitlis chose.