Is the BBC Impartial?
On #NovaraFM Aaron Bastani and Tom Mills ask whether the BBC is, or ever can be, politically impartial?
- Published 16th July 2017
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On #NovaraFM Aaron Bastani and Tom Mills ask whether the BBC is, or ever can be, politically impartial?
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From ‘public’ audiences filled with Tory activists to not even attempting to have political balance on panels – and even getting the most basic of facts wrong, Aaron Bastani thinks the jury is clearly out. The BBC has totally lost it when it comes to news and current affairs.
The BBC is meant to stop fake news, not amplify it. Last week on the BBC’s Question Time Diane Abbott was subject to disgraceful treatment. The host Fiona Bruce was neither accurate nor impartial. Isabel Oakeshott’s dishonesty was constantly unchallenged. Tory minister Rory Stewart couldn’t believe his luck in how biased the chairing was. Aaron […]
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