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That event and Mr Peston's role at it are indicative of the business editor's status, although he had previously clashed with James Murdoch at a dinner in Edinburgh in 2009, shortly after the News Corp scion had made a public attack on the BBC.
Mr Peston's relations with Mr Lewis, with whom he formerly worked at the Financial Times, go much deeper.
None of this would be a problem for the BBC if it were not for the suggestion that Mr Peston's scoops this month were helpful to Mr Murdoch's media organisation or factions within it.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)Agggh. What is it with Robert Peston's raggedy, querulous intonation?
But this was the Peston show because Pesto, as he is called, has had a very, very good credit crunch. His stories have made him a star almost, it must be said, despite himself. For this is a man who can be excruciatingly hard to listen to. Many is the morning when I shout at the radio: 'Spit it out, man!'
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