Once upon a time, I used to enjoy the Today programme, though in these post-Hutton times I find it reminiscent of pre-glasnost Radio Moscow in its slavish devotion to the Party line. Where are journalists like Brian Redhead, Bill Hardcastle and Charles Wheeler when we need them?
Today used to set the news agenda; these days it slavishly follows the Daily Mail and Express - it's gone from broadsheet to pretentious "serious" tabloid.
I know the programme was heavily reformatted a few years ago - they cut most of the foreign news out of it, concentrated a lot more on "ishoos" and "how they affect you"... and went for a lot more confrontational interviewing -- taking all of the real journalism out of it - I mostly stopped listening when it became obvious that Humphrys' ego was the most important thing on it.
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I know the programme was heavily reformatted a few years ago - they cut most of the foreign news out of it, concentrated a lot more on "ishoos" and "how they affect you"... and went for a lot more confrontational interviewing -- taking all of the real journalism out of it - I mostly stopped listening when it became obvious that Humphrys' ego was the most important thing on it.