Veteran ITN man lays into young BBC reporters

A veteran television news reporter, Michael Nicholson, believes that some of the BBC's less experienced reporters are so unprofessional that "I find it hard to believe a word they say". He said he is exasperated at the preponderance of "sloppy, inarticulate, humourless, colourless, un-English English". Nicholson, now 69, an award-winning former chief foreign correspondent for ITN, went on: "These young kids have had no training, they stumble over their words... they read every sentence in the same irritating monotone, emphasising in all the wrong places and finishing on exactly the same cadence, usually in a depressing minor key." But he refused to name names. (Via Sunday Times)