Former BBC anchor Michael Buerk has criticized the extensive media coverage of Liam Payne’s death, calling him “a drugged up, faded boy band singer.”
Buerk, who was the face of BBC News for almost 30 years until his semi-retirement in 2002, was speaking on Radio 4 show “Today” about how foreign reporting had changed over the past four decades.
“I think it’s really, really different,” he replied. “There was more of an appetite for seriousness. It was only last week that I think this program decided that the most important thing that had happened in the
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