Naga Munchetty's interview with Ed Miliband on BBC Breakfast
this morning shows the media's obsession with painting some people as losing out from any change
- and provides a reminder that the interviewing hack isn't always right.
She was picking up on a story in the Telegraph about zonal electricity pricing:
Ed Miliband is poised to approve changes that would mean households in the South pay more for electricity than those in Scotland and the North.
As Miliband tried to explain, this wouldn't mean that prices in the South would rise to subsidise people further North - just that some people might get a cheaper electricity because it doesn't have to travel so far.
But Munchetty struggled to understand that people paying more than others isn't necessarily the same as people paying more than they do now - that there can be winners without losers - and kept conflating the two concepts.
As a result, the interview just went round in circles and ended with Munchetty hoping for some clarity in the future.
There may be, but it may not be the explanation that hacks are looking for.
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