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Post by marky on Dec 2, 2010 21:01:03 GMT
Name: Martin Sixsmith BBC Position: BBC Foreign Correspondent (1980 - 1997) BBC Position: Various (2006 -) WikiHat Tip: BBC Pioneers"It was May 1997; it was a new start after 18 years of Tory misrule. Tony Blair said, 'A new dawn has broken, has it not?', and the answer at the time was yes. The great attraction was that I had spent 17 years on the outside looking in observing how politicians worked. Because I knew the Labour Party placed a great deal of store by communications I knew that if I took the job it would be a very privileged position on the inside of Government at the heart of policy-making. It was a great opportunity that a journalist probably wouldn't pass up." (1997, on leaving the BBC to work for the Labour Party) Martin Sixsmith: A lesson in life after spin
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Post by marky on Dec 2, 2010 21:04:28 GMT
"Yet having established himself as one of the most familiar faces of BBC television news, it was entirely Sixsmith's own choice to cross to the other side" (independent)
Same side more like.
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