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“I run a news programme. It’s my job to cover the news. That is what I intend to do tonight. Anything else is reckless. And now if you’ll excuse me, I have a show about to go on air that I must attend to. It must be those maternal instincts again.”

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I run a news programme. It’s my job to cover the news. That is what I intend to do tonight. Anything else is reckless. And now if you’ll excuse me, I have a show about to go on air that I must attend to. It must be those maternal instincts again.

It’s the mechanics of how we bear witness, because that’s what we do. What one tries to do. Reveal fleeting moments of history, not with apology, not as it is now, endless static newsreel. A man who never leaves his desk delivering the story as if it’s the dry, five-minute warm-up act to Hancock’s Half Hour. Of course, we all want to be entertained, but while we’re all busy laughing, Russia’s aligning its missiles and declaring World War Three! It has to be the hour that you can’t miss. The hour you have to see.
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