Gently, Jeremy
From Sally Williams
Sir: On reading Charles Moore on BBC interviewers (26 November), I recalled a Conservative party conference in Bournemouth a few years ago. I was strolling with my husband round the coun try market which was held in front of the pier. As we passed a BBC booth, a small door opened and out popped a head just like Mr Punch. It was Jeremy Paxman.
‘Ah, the savage man,’ I said, as I struggled to remember his name.
‘You’d be savage if you had to put up with some of the politicians with their waffle and prevarication,’ he said.
But yes, he does go too far, and it would be nice if occasionally he remembered that he is there to reveal the person to us or to extract information rather than show how ‘savage’ he is.
Sally Williams Dinas Cross, Pembrokeshire
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