Wednesday, July 02, 2008

Evan Davis blames media for under inflating bad economic news

Interesting comments from former Economics editor and now Today presenter Evan Davis.

Interviewed during the Radio festival in Glasgow he says that the corporation should have given the public more advanced warning of the coming recession.

According to Davis

I do ask whether we did our best to warn people of impending problems, I don't think we warned people sufficiently loudly or clearly.....

When everything is going well no one is interested in hearing it. Some of us suffered from giving the warnings a bit too early in the whole cycle. By about 2005 that warning was beginning to lose credibility."


Rather strange given though that he was the man chraged with telling the nation

(via Press Gazette)

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