Former Newsnight journalist says editors instead told him to ‘be careful’ when he was attacked by ex-No 10 aide on BBC board
• ‘Nobody can be entirely impartial’: Lewis Goodall on poverty, politics and the BBC
Lewis Goodall, the former policy editor of Newsnight and now a presenter on the hit podcast The News Agents, has alleged that his BBC bosses failed to “push back enough” when his reporting was criticised by a former Conservative communications chief, Robbie Gibb.
“It was McCarthyite,” he says, suggesting in a candid new interview in the Observer Magazine that he was briefly the target of a Tory witch-hunt – an uncomfortable period which intensified when Gibb joined the board of the BBC. “People high up at the BBC didn’t seem to be pushing back enough.”
Continue reading…Former Newsnight journalist says editors instead told him to ‘be careful’ when he was attacked by ex-No 10 aide on BBC board• ‘Nobody can be entirely impartial’: Lewis Goodall on poverty, politics and the BBCLewis Goodall, the former policy editor of Newsnight and now a presenter on the hit podcast The News Agents, has alleged that his BBC bosses failed to “push back enough” when his reporting was criticised by a former Conservative communications chief, Robbie Gibb.“It was McCarthyite,” he says, suggesting in a candid new interview in the Observer Magazine that he was briefly the target of a Tory witch-hunt – an uncomfortable period which intensified when Gibb joined the board of the BBC. “People high up at the BBC didn’t seem to be pushing back enough.” Continue reading…