[Newsroom]

How is that moving the goalposts? It's just pointing out that, regardless of attempts to portray the News channel as unfairly victimised or snubbed throughout the process, the BBC hardly cleanhoused News channel talent. From what we know, you had two NC presenters going up against about a dozen-or-so WN presenters for five jobs which were quite similar to those of four of the WN presenters (one of whom was, let's not forget, also a primetime NC presenter). I don't get why everybody keeps acting like the only way that Amroliwala, Fraser, Hakim or Hockings could have got the gig was through some nefarious favouritist plot to screw over the News channel.

What? I've always been clear that I feel that merging the news channels was not ideal (though, unlike some on this thread, I do recognise the financial realities of the situation) and that the end product could easily be better (though, again unlike others, my concerns are mainly content based, rather than on what colours the astons are). But, quite frankly, who is presenting is fairly low down on the list of issues I have with the merged channel.

But that's your point of view and perspective. If some users on here feel so passionately about what happened that they've chosen to be all conspiracy about it, let them be just that.

Going back to my own input - I'm just very happy to find out that concerns were noticed internally about the farcical recruitment process, which at the time of course many of us here felt exactly the same. 

I really didn't want to go down the road of who has what experience and from what channel (NC or World).

Croxall has presented overnights possibly longer than any of the chosen or those sat in holding. She was as frequent as Susan Osman back in the day. Annita McVeigh was a Special Correspondent in the field before hitting the desk, much the same as Amroliwala was a Foreign and Westminster Correspondent. Gianone's experience of covering South Africas affairs is renowned and so on..

With all that said and in returning briefly to the Time article yesterday, it is surely clear that this investigation is the reason why some talent have remained on payroll and have not chosen any other route and not because the BBC don't know what to do with them.

Am sure there's speedy conclusion to this and it can't come soon enough for all concerned.