[Radio_man]

Again, you're right, this is largely news snobbery - but quite rightly. The BBC isn't a tabloid, it's not supposed to determine its news agenda - particularly the front-end - based on the stories that they think people are interested in.

It'd be one thing if we were talking about the most popular programme on TV, but what this story ultimately boils down to is one of the presenters of not even the most popular morning magazine, which only gets slightly more viewers than the main edition of BBC London news, getting fired for doing something dodgy, but not illegal. The rest is gossip. This is not a story that materially affects the average viewer, it is not a story that actually matters in any political, geopolitical, economic, scientific or human catastrophic sense. At best, it is a story deserving of a two-minute VT second-to-last in the running order of the BBC News at Six on maybe two key days in the story's development. That's it.

I feel some on this forum are letting their interest in media stories cloud their judgement here, as I doubt we'd be hearing these kinds of excuses for other celebrity gossip stories leading the News at Ten and Newsnight.

Surely what we've seen with the Schofield story is the BBC letting the tabloids drive their editorial decisions?
I don't read any of the tabloids and I haven't seen any of the wild gossip about the Schofield story online. The story has only really come to my attention through the BBC and I'm pretty sure BBC news shouldn't be pandering the the hyperbolic coverage of this story that there's been in the tabloids, and basing their editorial decisions on that. There was much bigger and more important UK & international news than Schofield around in Friday, and there's no way his interview should've been leading their domestic bulletins and certainly not their international news channel.