On Newsnight tonight

Just a very quick note to anyone who is reading this and is in Britain tonight. My colleague at the Frontline Club, Vaughan Smith, will have a 16 minute slot from Sangin valley, Afghanistan on the BBC's premier news programme - Newsnight - tonight. What I really like about the way he's done this is the journalist-as-invisible-man-approach,

Rather than narrate it myself, which is the usual way these stories get told, I have interviewed the 4 Grenadiers involved and got them to explain it. So the film has no formal interviews, nor do you see me!

Much as I like my John Pilgers et al, I dunno about you, but this is the way I like my news. I don't want a journalist's voice or his face and I don't need to know anything about his private life. I want the players to tell me the story. I wish more journalists would work this way. Oh, and we'll have the video at From the Frontline  in a day or two.

Comments

[Robert Andews]

I was sitting on the next table a couple of weeks ago when he took the call :)

[Graham]

:) And I hope we have a chance to have a proper banter there again son Rob...