COMMENT Sir Charles Wheeler, the legendary BBC foreign correspondent who has died aged 85, was always meticulous in reporting the facts but often far from objective. It was one of his great strengths as a broadcaster.
“All right! I wasn’t dispassionate,” he said when reporting on the plight of Kurdish refugees in Iraq. “But I was terribly angry and objectivity flies out of the window ... what do you want me to do? Interview somebody who thinks this situation is good to balance the story?”
