According to Radio 4's controller, Mark Damazer, the replacement for Ed Stourton on the Today show, North America Editor Justin Webb, is "one of the joys of the network".
Today editor Ceri Thomas said:
"Justin has always excelled on radio and has become a truly formidable North America editor for the BBC. "This is the same Webb who oversaw the truly, embarassingly awful election night coverage for the BBC?!
"The chance to bring his foreign affairs expertise home to the programme was too good to miss."
I would love to know on what criteria they are judging him. Mateship? I've cataloged Webb's consistently Washington/MSM-centred, misleading and plain wrong (sometimes amazingly wrong) coverage over the past year. He was just another MSM journo spinning out the 'conflict' in the primaries and the general when by any reasonably criteria the result was known.
And his coverage of race in the election was cringeworthy.
I would also love to know how someone who consistently and rather snootingly ignored the enormous role of blogs in that election is going to fit-in with the now web 2.0-focus of the new Beeb?
My only conclusion is because Webb failed to hide his McCain-leaning sympathies that he'll fit in better with the Daily Mail leaning sympathies of Today.
Plus that I'll be avoiding the show come next September.
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