Threats and criticism over ‘bias must be withstood or the corporation will become like the Queen: unable to say anything that anyone disagrees withWaiting for Godot? Try its natural successor,Searching for Impartiality. On the one hand, we celebrated a monarch widely praised for never saying anything engaging or remotely controversial. Impartiality as silence and/or discreet boredom. On the other, and we watched over a fraught 24 hours while the BBC got it in the neck again. Impartiality as dream and delusion.
Here’s Lord (Michael) Dobbs tearing into the BBC’s continuing problem with older female presenters (such as Miriam O’Reilly,lately of Countryfile): “Being a great newscaster isn’t simply a matter of getting lip gloss around the words on a teleprompter. Experience and understanding count.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com