How can fair and accurate court reporting rely on the account provided by one side? A BBC source droned that they make decisions in line with editorial priorities and available resources at the time. As if this made things better, the BBC source said that their behaviour was something that many, if not all, media outlets do. But I had never seen it so starkly illustrated as in this court case, which badly needed to cause a national controversy, and now won’t. Every one of us was carefully trained in law and shorthand, and our first attempts at court reporting were always supervised by an experienced senior reporter.