The BBC clearly enjoyed Dominic Cummings’s testimony yesterday, running his seven-hour appearance uninterrupted in full on its channels and writing multiple stories with headlines such as ‘The most explosive claims’ and ‘Claims cannot easily be dismissed’. Among the many targets who suffered Cummings’s wrath were members of the media who he declares were driven ‘mad’ after he ‘essentially stopped talking to almost all journalists almost all the time’ in 2020.
So Mr S is sure that it was just a coincidence that the BBC chose to mute Cummings and do a voiceover just as the former aide explained the one exception to this rule was the Corporation’s own political editor. Cummings told the committee ‘the main person I really spoke to in the whole of 2020 was Laura Kuenssberg at the BBC, because the BBC has a special position in the country during a crisis’ and adding that he gave ‘guidance to her on specific stories’.
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