Friday, October 9, 2009

Dear Ben Bradshaw - don't you have any work to do?

It is one thing for Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw to use the platform he has as a Cabinet minister to make policy-related pronouncements on things like BBC funding and governance. It is quite another to use Twitter to snipe about individual episodes of BBC programmes.

Andrew Sparrow, in The Guardian
, writes that Bradshaw has been posting short (and therefore meaningless and rather petty) criticisms of the Today programme recently, describing it as "feeble and biased". Sparrow suggests that Bradshaw is starting to resemble Norman Tebbit in his attitudes towards the BBC. I would like Mr Bradshaw to start remembering that he is Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, and not a duty editor for Radio 4.

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