Production company says sorry to BBC and Queen : "The Treasury complained that a a Newsnight report on Gordon Brown, before he became Prime Minister, was edited out of sequence to make the encounter with a journalist more dramatic."
Sorry isn't good enough really because it's about propriety and class. It's about respect and dignity. There are some things you simply do not do and misrepresenting people is one of them. It really isn't correct to take public figures and treat them with impunity because they are public figures. The worst is that there are many good journalists out there and there are some well respected media companies but the confused, ill conceived plans of some bring discredit to the whole area of journalism. There is nothing wrong with integrity, in fact, if you think about it, that's what you want from others. You want to be treated with integrity. It's unfortunate some have no understanding of this because then you end up in a silly , petty debate about manners and protocol and that is the crux of this issue. There are some things which you just take for granted and being treated in a dignified way is one of them. It just should not occur any other way so apologies are not the answer. Personal integrity.
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