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There's power in suggestion, if she'd wanted to resign on the telly she'd maybe have contacted him upfront? I presume he didn't then interview her about why she wasn't resigning? Shaping the story.
Similarly but slight tangent, a local newspaper journo here fished for & published bad news stories about our estate. I offered good news stuff to counter this, not even a reply to my message. Her reporting maintains the perception that all is problematic on our estate, and doesn't reflect community efforts to make it better. Shaping the story.
Tagging @fox as answers similar points raised.
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I presume he didn't then interview her about why she wasn't resigning? Shaping the story.
I somehow doubt that after posting that Twitter DM publicly she then agreed to an interview. BBC and other journalists are desperate to interview loyal Johnsonites right now for balance reasons, but there aren't many putting themselves up for interview funnily enough. PM this evening was reduced to Micheal Fabricant and explicitly said that nobody from the government had agreed to come on, which is why they were speaking to him. It's not shaping the story if people won't talk to you.
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Similarly but slight tangent, a local newspaper journo here fished for & published bad news stories about our estate. I offered good news stuff to counter this, not even a reply to my message. Her reporting maintains the perception that all is problematic on our estate, and doesn't reflect community efforts to make it better. Shaping the story.
This is shaping the story. I mean, I'd call it pursuing a particular agenda, but it's the same thing. Lack of balance to present a story in a particular way. Unfortunately that's most journalism these days.
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Asking an MP to resign on TV if they want to is not undermining the leader imo. Its not as if he was trying to convince her to resign.