Naga Munchetty grills Jenrick on government mistakes
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The 46-year-old presenter avoided action from the broadcaster after deleting her “likes” and apologising. Director-general Tim Davie has cracked down on news staff who fail to “ensure the highest possible standards of impartiality” on social media.
The tweets related to a programme in March, when Naga’s co-host Charlie Stayt was interviewing Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick.
Charlie, 58, teased the politician about the small size of the Union flag behind him and Naga giggled along.
Both broadcasters were spoken to by management after 17 MPs demanded they be reprimanded for showing a lack of respect.
Yesterday, the BBC said that 16 viewers had complained.
But its complaints unit rejected the gripes because “the target of the humour was the prevalence of patriotic symbols” rather than “what those symbols represent”.
Of 11 complaints about Naga, it said: “She had ‘liked’ a number of tweets which were disparaging of the Government’s use of patriotic symbols [one of which used strong language].
“This risked giving the impression of endorsing one strand of opinion in a controversial area, and was in breach of the BBC’s standards of impartiality.”
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