BBC Breakfast host Dan Walker, 43, has opened up about how frustrating he finds trolls who accuse him or his work colleagues of not doing their jobs properly. Being the face of a national news show can’t be easy, especially knowing you can’t please everyone and Dan and the rest of the Breakfast team have to do this on a daily basis.
And sure as night turns to day, there are viewers who disagree with the questions they ask, the interviews they do or pick fault with the research that’s gone into scripting the news rundown each day.
Speaking about how he handles trolls on social media sites such as Twitter, Dan admitted he’s “getting better”.
“I just really care about the programme and the people I work with,” he said in a recent interview.
“I don’t like it when people have gotten the wrong idea, or accuse Louise or somebody who works on the programme of not doing their job properly or pandering to somebody or not doing their research.”
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During his recent interview, the BBC host clarified that it’s not the job of the presenter to “shout down” the government, but they are there to ask them the right questions.
“It’s our job to ask the right questions at the right time, to ask them why they’re doing things… and you’re not doing that?” he said.
“To be able to speak to, for example, the Health Secretary and say: ‘Tell us about testing,’ and to ask him again about testing, and to make sure we try our best to get to the bottom of why they’ve made those decisions, it’s a strange sort of privilege, but also quite a big responsibility.”
His co-star Louise Minchin chimed in, adding: “We’re in a unique position to inform the audience. And when we’ve got a government minister on, a lot of it is just about fact-finding,” she said.
“What does this mean? What is the evidence behind it? We’ve had a government minister pretty much every day since March 23.”
She noted that the communication between the government and the show is great for the audience, who are able to tell the presenters before hand on social media specific questions they want answers to.
“Our job, especially when we work for the BBC, is to be impartial,” Louise continued, after the Beeb has been at the centre of many rows about biased reporting.
“You can ask the questions, and you can ask them three times, and the audience can make the judgments. That’s not for us to make.”
BBC Breakfast airs weekdays from 6am on BBC One.