How the BBC is undermining public trust in its self-harming quest for ‘impartiality’

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The rules on impartiality in broadcasting have never been more muddled, and public trust is being seriously undermined. 🖋️ iburrell

and Sir David Attenborough, has been a gift to the BBC’s enemies and a source of despair for licence fee payers and staff.

Much of this debate on impartiality in television is being conducted on Twitter. In this frenzied environment, bias is called out – justifiably or falsely – from left, right and centre. Andrew Marr believes the BBC faces a hopeless task in policing the values of everyone on its roster. Marr is part of a BBC talent drain, which includes his colleague Emily Maitlis who left the BBC after being reprimanded in another storm over supposed bias.

Ahead of last week’s Budget, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt was interviewed on GB News by husband-and-wife presenting team Esther McVey and Philip Davies, both Tory MPs.

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