BBCNEWS Newswatch June 4, 2024 23:34:00
We put those criticisms to bbc news, and they sent us this response. now, is it legitimate for the bbc to broadcast bad language when it's quoting words used by a public figure and those words are the essence of a controversy? it's a question we've covered before on newswatch, and it cropped up again this week after tuesday morning's today programme on radio four, during which mishal hussain asked the home secretary, james cleverly, about what he did or did not say in parliament in november. now, we are going to bleep out the terms used, but the today programme didn't. there was the personal p...