Titans

Here's a debate I'd like to hear - Peston v Gallagher.

Yesterday, in a Q&A session following his Charles Wheeler lecture, Pesto said BBC News "“is completely obsessed by the agenda set by newspapers”.

“There is slightly too much of a safety-first [attitude]. If we think the Mail and Telegraph will lead with this, we should. It’s part of the culture.”

Today, Gallagher, a man who's straddled the Mail/Telegraph agenda for 24 years (with a short break prepping veg for trendy Islington eaterie Moro), responded.

I'd love to see evidence for Robert Peston's assertion the BBC follows a Mail/Telegraph agenda. It strikes me he is talking garbage
— Tony Gallagher (@gallaghereditor) June 7, 2014