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About economics. that was one important area. a second was that perhaps related to that, it seems as though the framing of a debate that...that particularly politicians use can easily be accepted. and one example of that was that, um, there seemed to be a tendency for the bbc to to agree that the national debt was something to be very worried about and that borrowing was almost a bad thing. now, that's an entirely legitimate perspective but there are other perspectives in very orthodox economics that say in certain circumstances it can be good to increase public sector borrowing. we thought th...

That politics seems to be driving the news agenda, and that's in many ways entirely legitimate — politics is a terribly important thing — but we thought there were a number of cases where it would have been better for an economics correspondent to have been talking about the economic issue that had become a political issue, rather than asking our extremely skilled politics correspondents to talk about something on which they're not expert, and we did find talking to a lot of the bbc�*s journalists that there's quite a lot of anxiety about how prepared and skilled journalists are to talk ...