Something very odd happened today on the Six O'Clock News.
The normal procedure for the news, is that they do a trailer of the three leading stories in order, during the title sequence. They then report those three stories in that sequence when they go to the newsreader in the studio.
Only that didn't happen today. They reported the three main stories, and then they did the second and third stories first of all, then did the first story third.
So what, you might ask. Well, this was the first story, and as I've been pointing out for the past few weeks, there seems to be editorial pressure on stories of this type; Stafford disappeared off the radar with just a little less than indecent haste, and so did the story of the six people with learning disabilities that died of neglect in hospital. Btw, the other stories were nothing special; one was a story on the financial crisis, and the other was on the mass walkout at the UN when the Iranian president called Israel racist. Important, but not worth disrupting a news bulletin for.
So what's going on? Who's putting the pressure on the Beeb and are they finally resisting it? We'll have to wait and see. I'm just glad that this stuff is finally getting reported.
