Quote from Salman Rushdie’s Memoir This from page 524; came across it yesterday. In my opinion, the sentiment expressed applies to IVN as well.
"A woman named Flora Botsford was the BBC's Colombo correspondent, but it was her mischief-making that, in the opinion of the producer Chris Hall, was 'the thing that dished us.' It was sometimes easy to believe that media people preferred things to go wrong, because EVERYTHING GOES WELL was not a catchy headline."