The row began after veteran reporter Pym tweeted: Raises the question - is it being public spirited to politely ask why someone is not wearing a mask or is it an intrusion on their privacy?
His colleague Simon McCoy retweeted the comment, and added: My esteemed colleague BBC Health Editor @BBCHughPym has just been abused on a tube after questioning a woman for not wearing a mask.what are people not getting?
BBC s health editor Hugh Pym (Image: Jeff Overs/BBC News & Current Affairs via Getty Images)
Many people cited official advice not to challenge people for not wearing masks.
2020 was a big year in news, and for shows with opinion, from Breakfast TV to
The Project to
Q&A, an often-polarising one.
Sunrise has won another year in the ratings, albeit in the context of a lift from
Today and
News Breakfast. Yet in an age of social media and clickbait stories, it has also seen presenters in the headlines for comments made during a 3.5hr live broadcast during a pandemic.
Craig McPherson, Seven’s Director of News & Current Affairs, is rightly pleased with the network news performance, but acknowledges new landscape.
“The beauty of the
Sunrise ensemble is they’ve got firm opinions, they’re balanced in their presentation of them. It is very easy for people to pick a side -and when I say people, I’m meaning the people who like to comment on people who are on air- and for whatever reason, get all caught up in their opinion clashing with that of the person on television. That creates its own thing in the great social media domain where suddenl