Turns out Alan Yentob, the BBC’s “creative director” has been filming “noddy shots” and then having them inserted into interviews he didn’t even carry out.
According to MediaGuardian:
…Scenes featuring Mr Yentob reacting to some of the more peripheral figures and experts featured in his programmes were edited in even though he was not actually present. Editing [...]

Following Jeremy Paxman’s “what is television for” speech at the Edinburgh International TV conference - and a seemingly endless stream of stories about manipulation and fakery of telly programmes - the focus of fears about how TV is misleading viewers seems to be shifting from entertainment programmes to news.
Now Newsnight and Five News are among [...]