On Bias at BBC News, the main argument is that whatever you think of Boris Johnson or Dominic Cummings, we are entitled to unbiased news coverage from BBC TV and radio news. We are not getting it. When Emily Maitlis gave her controversial introduction on Newsnight, Social Media was ablaze, and there was an extraordinarily speedy statement from the BBC saying that, “we believe the introduction we broadcast did not meet our standards of due impartiality.” This could not have been clearer. How about the press briefing at which several political correspondents clashed with the Prime Minister about their questions to Sir Patrick Vallance and Professor Chris Whitty about the Cummings saga, raising questions about what the nature of these daily press briefings should be. The Mail Online reported that the BBC had announced that Richard Sambrook, former head of BBC global news, will be heading an inquiry into whether tweets by BBC talent breach its impartiality policy. Sambrook has been in BBC News and Current Affairs for thirty years, he’s hardly going to be impartial then is he. Things need to change Big Time at the BBC.
BBC Bias Part 4
