and i suppose, you know, whether the media has a role to play in polarising opinion, when it could actually be bringing people together potentially. i think it is - polarising opinion. i think what this shows is that newsrooms are treating this l as a culture war story, rather than a health i and science one, and it's testament to newsnightl that the story was . pursued in this way. and i think it's a real. shame that, you know, originaljournalism is beingl gutted from newsnight now and we may not see stories of this ilk in the future - from that particular show. and what's your sense, as somebody who previously worked at the times, of whether — how those newspapers, how places approach these issues and the impact they have? they embrace these issues. they want to write about them because they drive huge - engagement and interest - and, you know, iwas encouraged to pursue stories where the media and these i debates intersected because
whether the media has a role to play in polarising opinion, when it could actually be bringing people together potentially. i think it is - polarising opinion. i think what this shows is that newsrooms are treating this l as a culture war story, rather than a health i and science one, and it's testament to newsnightl that the story was . pursued in this way. and i think it's a real. shame that, you know, originaljournalism is beingl gutted from newsnight now and we may not see stories of this ilk in the future - from that particular show. and what's your sense, as somebody who previously worked at the times, of whether — how those newspapers, how places approach these issues and the impact they have? they embrace these issues. they want to write about them because they drive huge - engagement and interest and, you know, i was encouraged . to pursue stories where - the media and these debates intersected because they were controversial, - because they stoked opinion. and for the bbc, it often finds itself at the centre of these i