Is the licence fee worth it? Mr Steerpike thinks it might be if Maryam Moshiri presents the news more often. The BBC news anchor was caught out this morning holding her middle finger up at the camera at the start of the hourly bulletin. Moshiri has since claimed that it was a ‘private joke with the team’:
I was pretending to count down as the director was counting me down from 10-0.. including the fingers to show the number. So from 10 fingers held up to one.
Oh dear. She may have more than a few disgruntled viewers after today’s programme, but there were some supportive comments at least. Specsavers told her: ‘We’re with you, Maryam. If you are struggling to see the countdown, let us know.’ Mr S can only picture how she might have reacted to that…
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