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Thursday, 26 February, 2009 00:28am on 27 Feb 2009 Well done Newsnight for tonight's item on Microcredit!

This is a great example of a BBC terrestrial service fulfilling its public service remit - at one end of the programme Gavin Esler expressing 'disgust' over a failed banker's greed at the public expense while at the other end airing the possibility that there could be a structural alternative to the bubble-prone Western banking system.

I would thoroughly encourage BBC current affairs coverage to differentiate itself by doing more in the way of raising awareness of alternative views and paradigms on the day's stories.

This would be especially welcome where a story like the credit crisis gets unrelenting coverage and, in particular, where the story is one of structural failure.

Let's hear more of microcredit, and more - why not? - of what we might learn from successes in developing countries as well as from best practice anywhere, on the BBC's mainstream news and current affairs terrestrial output.

Andrew

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