ITV gives scoop to Newsnight

ITV's News at Ten got some good publicity in most of this morning's papers for its exclusive interview with Gordon Brown in which the prime minister said Peter Hain was guilty of "an incompetence" in the row over donations to his Labour deputy leadership campaign. However, it seems that News at Ten actually missed its own scoop and didn't show the relevant section of the interview, instead concentrating on Brown's comments about the Northern Rock crisis. The line on Hain was instead press-released to other media organisations while a clip was despatched to BBC2's Newsnight, which ironically became the first show to screen it. News at Ten may have had some big scoops since relaunching on Monday, but Monkey doubts it has so many that it can afford to hand them out to its rivals.