Norman Geras raises questions about last night's Newsnight panel with Jack Straw, and posts its Editor's reply to Medialens.
Norm says the panel was unbalanced with a majority of anti-war voices. Medialens of course takes the view it was pro-war propaganda. I didn't see the item as I was watching a programme about the Valleys on BBC1. In general I come from the same direction as Norm on these issues. More comments welcome please.
I watched part of it and thought that although the panel wasn't balanced the programme worked well enough. Jack Straw was given enough time to develop his answers and I thought the panel worked in exploring the issues in a way that (for example) it doesn't on Question Time.
Posted by: Andrew Brown | October 15, 2005 at 02:54 PM