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June 15, 2009

Peter Sissons: ‘News presenters must go through fire of frontline reporting’

By Dominic wireposts

Retiring BBC newsreader Peter Sissons has said: “It should be a requirement that you don’t get to read the news unless you’ve been through the fire of frontline reporting.”

He is quoted in the Sunday Mirror as saying: “We’ve got to make sure the new generation of news presenters have what the old generation had, which is knowing how the world worked.”

Sissons, 66, has also had a dig at Five News’ £1m a year presenter Natasha Kaplinsky saying: “Natasha has done very well out of her looks. I suppose any bright woman with good looks who can make herself £1 million a year must be doing something right from her point of view.

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