It was always an irony of journalism that if nobody was moaning about your coverage - you weren't doing much of a job. Complaints are like campaign medals - look at the way Private Eye flaunts the writs and complaints it receives. But with that comes an extraordinary responsibility, to make sure you are beyond criticism and if you do drop a goollie the only course of action is to fess up and take the criticism. It soon goes away, anyway - but the smell of a cover-up hangs around much longer. Deborah Turness is a hard-boiled journalist. She knew what had to be done and she wanted to hold up her hands on behalf of her department. Enemies within, who lurk in the blancmange layer of "Governance", foiled her. That will always be the case while the heart of the BBC - its journalism - is trapped inside the great gooey pudding of bureaucracy which the Corporation has become. Let's rescue the world's most outstanding news organisation from suffocation inside a middling entertainment company, which is far more interested in glitterball game shows than shining a light in to the murky corners of life. Support great journalism with Licence fees - let the rest pay for itself!
The Prescott letter cites the exact opposite bias: that then BBC was anti- Israel. This neatly exposes the almost impossible position the BBC is permanently in: caught between two diametrically opposed views.
Cannot believe that you are trying to paint this up as an attack on the bbc....they ARE biased, they have been for years, they have been caught out (this time) this is not a creeping attack from the US, its about having a broadcaster that is impartial. The bbc IS NOT impartial and should be hung out to dry on this and many other issues.
It was always an irony of journalism that if nobody was moaning about your coverage - you weren't doing much of a job. Complaints are like campaign medals - look at the way Private Eye flaunts the writs and complaints it receives. But with that comes an extraordinary responsibility, to make sure you are beyond criticism and if you do drop a goollie the only course of action is to fess up and take the criticism. It soon goes away, anyway - but the smell of a cover-up hangs around much longer. Deborah Turness is a hard-boiled journalist. She knew what had to be done and she wanted to hold up her hands on behalf of her department. Enemies within, who lurk in the blancmange layer of "Governance", foiled her. That will always be the case while the heart of the BBC - its journalism - is trapped inside the great gooey pudding of bureaucracy which the Corporation has become. Let's rescue the world's most outstanding news organisation from suffocation inside a middling entertainment company, which is far more interested in glitterball game shows than shining a light in to the murky corners of life. Support great journalism with Licence fees - let the rest pay for itself!
Yes, great journalism, as long as it's wholly true, with no bias.
The Prescott letter cites the exact opposite bias: that then BBC was anti- Israel. This neatly exposes the almost impossible position the BBC is permanently in: caught between two diametrically opposed views.
Not one mention of the BBC’s appalling bias towards Israel in its coverage of the genocide? The evidence is pretty damning https://t.co/2I53DdYZoh
Cannot believe that you are trying to paint this up as an attack on the bbc....they ARE biased, they have been for years, they have been caught out (this time) this is not a creeping attack from the US, its about having a broadcaster that is impartial. The bbc IS NOT impartial and should be hung out to dry on this and many other issues.