The Daily Mail’s Jan Moir applauds Laura Kuenssberg’s appointment as the BBC’s new political editor, but takes issue with “certain newspapers crowing about the first female political editor of the BBC”.
“These things are not supposed to matter,” said Moir, despite the recent focus on diversity in the media and the BBC in particular. “No one would boast about the first black editor or the first Jewish editor, after all. To do so is demeaning to Laura Kuenssberg and to all of us.”
But 24 hours earlier, which newspaper front page declared Kuenssberg the “glam new face of BBC politics”?
“Newsnight star, 38, is first lady of BBC politics,” said the inside story. “Newsnight presenter Laura Kuenssberg yesterday made history as she became the BBC’s first woman political editor.” Why, the Daily Mail of course.
