BBC News: The Editors: Why blogs matter to the BBC
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Giles Wilson: "[It] needs saying is to reject [Stephen Glover's] implication of... that for a reporter to write a blog necessarily means them becoming purveyors of opinion and comment. He claims is it "impossible to write a half-readable blog without peppering it with opinions". That's just not true. We look to our expert editors such as Nick [Robinson] and Robert [Peston] to tell us what has happened, to explain why it is or isn't important, what it means, and even what might be the effect. As to what their personal opinions about the news are, well, that's just not the business we're in."