“She is great, and she summed up a lot of people’s thoughts.” “What do you think of the BBC undermining her professionalism, John, when all she presented was a series of facts?” “The BBC issued an outrageous statement admonishing her.”
That was one lot of Twitter messages I received when I tweeted in support of Emily Maitlis’s qualities as a broadcaster last night. There were other messages, too: the usual stuff about how left-wing the BBC is, and some abusive things about Emily and about me. Then there was the woman who said: “She claimed to be speaking for the nation, but she wasn’t speaking for me or for people like me.”
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