On 27 May there was a piece in TheArticle about bias at BBC News. The main argument was 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. In just a few days the debate moved on dramatically. Last Tuesday night, 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. Ms. Maitlis has not presented Newsnight since. On Thursday 28 May, there was a 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 affaire, raising questions about what the nature of these daily press briefings should be. The population of the UK should not be paying for the BBC if it isn’t even making an attempt to communicate with them.
BBC Bias Part 5
