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You keep banging on about this - what is your source? I suspect it is a Daily Mail article which was refuted by the BBC. I know who I'd believe.
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why do you suspect it is a daily mail article?
i don't read the daily mail as i have pointed out innumerable times. it seems to be a pavlovian reaction.
anyway; for details of internal reviews i commend 'can we trust the bbc?' by robin aitken; paperback is available in waterstones.
for external reviews i commend the tait report.
out of the mouths of:
Andrew Marr (former labour member, married to daughter of former labour mp, and barking guardianista):
"The BBC is not impartial or neutral. It's a publicly funded urban organisation, with an abnormally large number of young people, ethnic minorities and gay people, it has a liberal bias not so much a party political bias. It is better expressed as a cultural liberal bias."
Jeff Randall, former business editor:
""It's a bit like walking into a Sunday meeting of the Flat Earth Society. As they discuss great issues of the day, they discuss them from the point of view that the earth is flat. If someone says, 'No, no, no, the earth is round!', they think this person is an extremist. That's what it's like for someone with my right-of-centre views working inside the BBC."
"'It's not a conspiracy. It's visceral. They think they are on the middle ground"
Jeremy Paxman:
"People who know a lot more than I do may be right when they claim that [global warming] is the consequence of our own behaviour. I assume that this is why the BBC's coverage of the issue abandoned the pretence of impartiality long ago"
James Naughtie to Ed Balls:
"If we win the election.....er....If you win the election."
There's plenty more out there for those that have google.
Labour apparatchiks past and present, mr marr again, greg dyke, john birt...
by the way, i know who you'd believe too. that's my point.
in reality, there is no more reason to trust the beeb than the mail. and i find it quite comical that you're taking a denial by helen boaden as 'case closed'.