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Sissons: 'BBC standards are falling'
July 15, 2009
(Digital Spy) Veteran BBC newsreader Peter Sissons has blamed "political correctness" for falling standards at the corporation.
The 66-year-old broadcaster, who recently announced his retirement, claimed that senior BBC figures are afraid to challenge journalists when they make mistakes.
Writing in The Mail On Sunday, he commented: "At today's BBC, a complaint I often heard from senior producers was that they dared not reprimand their subordinates for basic journalistic mistakes - such as getting ages, dates, titles and even football scores wrong - it being politically incorrect to risk offending them."