Tim Watts wrote:

On 19/02/18 10:25, tim... wrote:

It *was* discussed on The Papers

But it doesn't make it to The News, because as an unconfirmed report it
doesn't meet the threshold for being "News". The Beeb having previously
been criticized for reporting unconfirmed stories that turned out to be
wrong have corrected that mistake, and here you are now expecting the
poor practice again.)


BBC website has some 10 stories on various aspects of the Trump-Russia
allegations. Is that different?

Apart from Trump being right wing...

All American presidents are right wing war-mongers. It is part of the
core job description. Slight differences in domestic policies have
little impact on us. But the thing about Trump is that he is
uproariously funny, and any news source would want to take advantage of
that.
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Roger Hayter