Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has received an apology from the BBC, after she accused Newsnight producers of “sneakily pitting” her against a Trump supporter in a live TV interview. The author wrote: “When I arrived at their studio in Washington DC, the show’s producer casually said, ‘You’ll be on a panel with a Trump supporter. A magazine editor who has supported Donald Trump from the beginning.’“At no time had I been told that there would be anyone else in the interview, never mind being pitted against a Trump supporter. “But sneakily pitting me against a Trump supporter was not about balance – we could have easily been interviewed separately,” she said. And who insisted that Donald Trump is not a racist, even though the evidence is glaring, even though the House majority leader of Donald Trump’s own Republican party condemned Donald Trump’s racism.

Source: The Guardian November 28, 2016 12:56 UTC