Airhead: The Imperfect Art of Making News

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Multiple sources contest McAlister’s claim that Donal McCabe, the Queen’s communications secretary, only “fleetingly” popped into the interview room and left before the cameras started rolling, a move she brands a “missed opportunity. But what was weird was that some people [at work] would come up and go, ‘Ooh, Emily, on the front page, ooh, what have you done? In February 2020, her interview with Prince Andrew won Interview of the Year and Scoop of the Year awards at the 2020 RTS Television Journalism Awards, [16] and Maitlis is reportedly making a scripted drama with Blueprint Pictures of this interview. I wore one outfit – it was this amazing crushed silk and you had to tie it in knots so that, when you opened it, it was like hundreds of creases and crushes. But GB news has still got plenty of presenters on its books who spout conspiracy, confect outrage, and misinform.

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Emily and Jon speak to Mark Regev - a senior adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and former Israeli ambassador to the UK.

In Britain, she is now a household name – having been on the BBC since 2001 – and was appointed as Newsnight’s first female lead presenter in March, leading an all-woman team. A friend of the Duke told The Telegraph: "This latest exploitation for financial gain of a book and now a film, of what was and remains, a very difficult time for the family, is unwelcome. She gave her talk while quarantining following her trip to the United States of America for President Joe Biden's inauguration.

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And going back and seeing what was happening there was profoundly shocking because essen­tially …” – a Chinese-speaking couple sits down next to us. She relishes memories of “gay clubs with gay friends in ridi­culous gold lamé – being told you looked great when you looked atrocious! Reflecting on her grilling of Steve Bannon in Prague, Maitlis is moved to ask “whether it’s right to air opinions our audience can use to understand his world, or whether we are oxygenating and empowering these views”.

The two Festival weekends are also dominated by hundreds of events for people of all ages, whether two or 100-year’s old. The only other matter Maitlis is understandably reticent to discuss is the man who has been stalking her for well over 20 years. Should it be a crime to shout "jihad" on the streets of London during a protest to support Palestinian rights? Israel say they're acting proportionately - but are they about to commit war crimes, and why are British politicians largely happy with this interpretation?