Andrew Marr
Andrew Marr
Andrew William Stevenson Marris a British journalist and television presenter. Beginning his career as a political commentator, he subsequently edited The Independent, and was political editor of BBC News. He began hosting a political programme—Sunday AM, now called The Andrew Marr Show—on Sunday mornings on BBC One from September 2005. In 2002, Marr took over as host of BBC Radio 4's long-running Start the Week Monday morning discussion programme ...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth31 July 1959
losing maybe might newspapers reason tried trying worth
If all newspapers are losing circulation, maybe it's just worth trying to go back to some reporting, to see if that might be the reason - even if only one newspaper tried it, to see what happened.
hence nor shed torturers viewers
Interviews, and hence interviewers, are there to help shed light, and to let viewers judge for themselves. We are not judges, juries, commentators or torturers - nor friends, either.
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I think it requires leadership from editors and senior broadcasters to try and turn that around and back off the position where we are opinionated first, and come round to the facts later,
kids
My kids wouldn't dream of buying a newspaper - and we are a newspaper household.
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I can make Tony Blair, Michael Howard, Charles Kennedy or anyone else look bumbling, irrelevant, tetchy... or rather brilliant.
hoped lack major policy polls
Yet the barely-moving polls and the lack of major gaffes or policy collapses has made it duller than I, for one, hoped it would be.
toes size yorkshire
My big toe alone is the size of Yorkshire.
long rude pennies
Rude interviewers are ten a penny, and politicians have long since learned how to cope.
gossip journalism
Journalism is often simply the industrialisation of gossip.
modern-journalism confusing answers
The truth is, "What is a journalist?" is one of those questions for which there is no proper answer. The prehistory of modern journalism shows it has been a ragged and confusing trade all the way through.
laughter mind news
Hard news really is hard. It sticks not in the craw but in the mind. It has an almost physical effect, causing fear, interest, laughter or shock.
nine journalism right-time
Journalism is nine-tenths being in the right places at the right time.
history lessons facts
History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.
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Unlike the general public, I rather like most politicians.