although this week's reports have made many years angry, others have accused bbc of getting overexcited by the story.— overexcited by the story. surely there are far— overexcited by the story. surely there are far more _ overexcited by the story. surely there are far more important i overexcited by the story. surely i there are far more important news items that the bbc should be looking at, such as housing the afghan refugees or even what vladimir putin is doing, rather than whether or not there was a socially distant to get together in the garden for those who are working extremely hard together in 2020 at a very stressful time, and were invited to use a beautiful space to chat with each other and support each other. i am sure that nurses and doctors also met in staff rooms that were not nearly as luxurious as the number ten according to on unwind, but none of this has been covered by the press. please can the bbc stop this witch hunt and report on the stories that are relevant and impact us now. some ofthe are relevant and impact us now. some of the coverage _ are relevant and im

do you accept that with fewer experienced journalists in the newsroom, mistakes like that are going to happen more? well, mistakes do happen. i'm not going to deny that. but i think in that particular case, it was less to do with cuts, to be honest, and more to do with covid. it was also 28 december, it was night, i think the teams are actually quite thinned out, no doubt about it, but that's not because of cuts so much as where we are between christmas and new year. really? people thought you should have just googled alan dershowitz, you'd have known you should be putting them on the air in that context. well, possibly — actually, i think the teams now know that they actually they could have avoided it by doing some kind of more considered handovers to each other on it. and we admitted it was a mistake and dealt with it. mistakes happen, they do. but i don't necessarily think there are any more of them now than when ijoined the bbc nearly a0 years ago — or if there are, it's probably a factor of having so much more output. after this week's announcement on the licence fee, bbc new