05-09-2023, 02:04 PM
That’s a good point about political coverage on radio often being more insightful than TV, even though it usually makes use of the same correspondents.
Outside Source actually often covered politics more insightfully than purely domestic output, precisely because Ros Atkins would often engage with Rob Watson (a primarily WN political correspondent) on analysis rather than the classic format of: what’s the government saying, what’s the opposition saying, “meanwhile, the people this impacts are left in limbo”, that’s all the time we have.
Outside Source actually often covered politics more insightfully than purely domestic output, precisely because Ros Atkins would often engage with Rob Watson (a primarily WN political correspondent) on analysis rather than the classic format of: what’s the government saying, what’s the opposition saying, “meanwhile, the people this impacts are left in limbo”, that’s all the time we have.