Jeremy Corbyn causes problems for Newsnight
Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour leadership bid has so far managed to inspire a legion of new supporters to join the Labour party. Alas, his unexpected popularity is also causing a problem for some members of the media. After the Guardian launched an in-house investigation into whether their own Corbyn coverage was bias against him, Emily Maitlis, who has interviewed him for tonight’s Newsnight, has written a gushing blog post titled ‘Prepping to meet “the man of the moment”‘. In it, she says that his tendency to veer off from textbook politician answers caused her a problem when preparing for the interview: ‘On the train to Leeds my producer Ed Brown and I are putting together a list
