Past, Present and FUTURE Clive Myrie talks to Seth Dellow
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rom his days covering news in the Westcountry at the BBC’s Points West to his now regular presenter slot at BBC News at Ten, Clive Myrie has always been one of the most measured and accessible presenters on television. However, despite exuding a professionalism that any budding journalist would aspire to, he sometimes questions whether the dispassionate stance required of journalists is always the right position to take. Talking to Seth Dellow in an audio interview available on the Marshwood Vale Magazine website, Clive highlighted his wish to move towards more empathetic reporting ‘which is not simply being an observer’ he says, or a ‘disinterested outsider.’ It’s about telling the story through the eyes of whomever he is talking to and trying to put himself in the position of the viewer. He believes he should be presenting the pain and feel that pain as a viewer feels it. ‘I need to be that viewer more often than not, rather than a dispassionate observer who breezes in and then breezes out.’ He says that if he can make the viewer or listener understand the story from an emotional perspective, then hopefully that story will live longer in their mind.
12 The Marshwood Vale Magazine August 2021 Tel. 01308 423031
